Per Solberg
Data Engineer
Oslo, Norway
Summary
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Top SchoolPer Solberg is a data engineer and computational linguist with eight years of experience building production-ready AI and language technology solutions in Norway. He combines a PhD in linguistics with hands-on skills in speech recognition, RAG, and scalable data pipelines, and is a certified Databricks Data Engineer Associate currently delivering AI systems that interact with customers’ own data at Knowit. Previously he led language-technology efforts at the National Library of Norway, producing 5,000 hours of high-quality Norwegian ASR training data and contributing to national policy and expert panels. Per has managed and trained linguist teams on large NLP projects (including a stint at Google), and has a track record of turning research into practical tooling and efficient Python-based pipelines. Colleagues describe him as someone who bridges deep linguistic insight and pragmatic engineering—often spotting dataset and annotation issues that others miss.
8 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
University of OsloMaster of Philosophy in Theoretical Linguistics, Linguistics, A, Master of Philosophy in Theoretical Linguistics, Linguistics, A at University of Tromsø (UiT)Philosophy, Theology, Philosophy, Theology at Université Catholique de Lille
French, Norwegian, Norwegian, English, Latin, Welsh
Github Skills (8)
javascript10
documentation9
languagetool1
rule-based1
som1
notebook1
wolfram-language1
idris1
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
peresolb/transcribe_w2v
Mar 2022 - Oct 2022
Transcribe large audiofiles with wav2vec2
Contributions:6 PRs, 10 pushes, 2 branches in 7 months
qualcommaudiounitwav2vec2audiotranscribe
Sprakbanken/sprakbanken-whisper-jax
Sep 2023 - Jan 2024
Contributions:7 pushes, 1 branch in 4 months
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