Peter Steenbergen
Co-Founder Executive Director at OpenVoiceOS
Emmen, Drenthe, Netherlands
Summary
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SeniorPeter Steenbergen is a veteran open-source engineer and entrepreneur with 13 years of experience building privacy-focused voice AI and embedded systems from the Netherlands. As co-founder and Executive Director of the OVOS Foundation and creator of MycroftOS, he champions community-driven, decentralized voice assistants that prioritize local processing and user data sovereignty. He has a proven track record shipping consumer hardware and software—having co-founded The Little Black Box and delivered Linux-based multimedia devices to major European retailers. Peter combines deep systems and Buildroot expertise with product instincts, bridging low-level firmware work and accessible user experiences. He is known for turning the remnants of commercial projects into sustainable, nonprofit-driven ecosystems that keep voice technology transparent and customizable. Based in Emmen, he remains an active advocate and organizer for ethical AI and open standards in the voice assistant space.
13 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Github Skills (157)
python10
current-time10
whisper10
linux10
ai10
nlp10
artificial-intelligence10
devkit10
voice-assistant10
64-bit10
arch10
installer10
natural-language-processing10
mycroftai10
speech-to-text10
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
OpenVoiceOS/ovos-buildroot
Feb 2023 - Feb 2023
Contributions:2 releases, 11 reviews, 1 commit in 1 day
rpilinux-osrpi3buildrootheadless
OpenVoiceOS/buildroot
Jun 2023 - Feb 2025
Buildroot, making embedded Linux easy. Note that this is not the official repository, but only a mirror. The official Git repository is at http://git.buildroot.net/buildroot/. Do not open issues or file pull requests here.
Contributions:68 pushes, 2 branches in 1 year 8 months
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