Peter Smit
Chief Executive Officer at NTC Polaris - the Dutch school in Finland
Helsinki Metropolitan Area Finland
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Top SchoolPeter Smit is a Helsinki-based CEO and speech recognition expert with 16 years of experience building ML-driven products from research prototypes to enterprise deployments, currently leading Inscripta to deliver customizable, accuracy-guaranteed speech solutions for medical and contact center customers. He combines deep academic roots—a doctoral background in speech and language technology—with hands-on engineering, contributing to landmark open-source projects such as Kaldi and the popular self-hosted Git service Gogs. As a founder-CEO who previously served as Chief Scientific Officer, he bridges product strategy, model engineering, and DevOps to ensure reliable, production-ready systems. Beyond tech leadership, he is active in community stewardship as chairman of the Dutch school in Finland, reflecting a capacity to translate technical vision into organizational impact.
16 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering Industrial Mathematics and Informatics, Bachelor of Engineering Industrial Mathematics and Informatics at Inholland University of Applied SciencesDoctor of Science Speech and Language Technology / Machine learning, Doctor of Science Speech and Language Technology / Machine learning at Aalto UniversityMaster of Science (Tech.) Computer Science (Machine Learning and Data Mining), Master of Science (Tech.) Computer Science (Machine Learning and Data Mining) at Teknillinen korkeakoulu-Tekniska högskolanTurku University of Applied Sciences
English, Dutch
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Github Skills (31)
git10
scripting10
user-management10
gitea10
go10
sql10
database-design10
build-automation10
data-processing10
email-verification10
golang10
speech-recognition10
shell10
modeling10
javascript9
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
kaldi-asr/kaldi
Dec 2015 - Aug 2020
kaldi-asr/kaldi is the official location of the Kaldi project.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & DevOps Engineer
Back-end Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:21 PRs, 54 comments, 5 issues in 4 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Peter contributed to the Kaldi project by modifying various scripts related to data processing and build processes. Their work involved updating scripts for the WSJ data setup, including changes to handle dictionary suffixes and file paths. Furthermore, the user implemented fixes and improvements to the build and cleanup scripts, addressing issues related to the generation of CTM files, lmrescore, and data segmentation, and added dependency checks. These changes suggest a focus on improving the build and release processes.
cudakaldiasrspeech-to-textkaldi-asr
gogs/gogs
Dec 2014 - Feb 2015
Gogs is a painless self-hosted Git service
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:50 commits, 32 PRs, 89 comments in 2 months
Contributions summary:Peter primarily contributed to back-end development, enhancing the Gogs service with features related to user email management. They implemented a new struct for alternative email addresses, updated methods to handle these addresses, and added functions to add, delete, and activate email addresses. These changes involved modifications to the user model, database interactions, and email verification workflows. Furthermore, they integrated email verification functionality using time-limited codes.
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