Raivis Dejus
Senior Software Engineer at Scandiweb
Riga, Latvia
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Top SchoolRaivis Dejus is a Senior Software Engineer based in Riga with over 20 years of experience building web and eCommerce solutions, currently shaping architectures and storefronts at Scandiweb for clients like PUMA Mexico and buff.com. He blends full‑stack development, system integrations and team enablement with a long-standing passion for open source, voice technologies and AI. His open-source contributions span front-end work on ScandiPWA, localization for Mozilla’s Common Voice (improving Latvian accessibility), and back-end/DevOps enhancements for offline transcription tools using Whisper. Comfortable operating across product, infrastructure and localization domains, he pairs practical engineering with a focus on usability and measurable conversion outcomes. Collected experience from consultancy to running a dev agency gives him a rare mix of audit-level discipline and hands-on delivery.
19 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BSc), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BSc), Computer Science at University of Latvia (Latvijas Universitāte)High School Diploma, High School Diploma at Riga State Gymnasium No. 1
English, Russian, Latvian
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Github Skills (37)
javascript10
translation10
python10
whisper10
internationalization10
audio-processing10
user-interface10
ffmpeg10
redux10
localize10
localization10
locale10
react10
openai-api9
magento9
Programming languages (19)
Github contributions (5)
chidiwilliams/buzz
May 2024 - Mar 2025
Buzz transcribes and translates audio offline on your personal computer. Powered by OpenAI's Whisper.
Role in this project:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:384 PRs, 475 pushes, 349 branches in 10 months
Contributions summary:Raivis contributed significantly to enhancing the functionality of the offline audio transcription and translation tool. Their work included implementing a feature to remember the previously used Hugging Face model, fixing multi-byte segment issues within the Whisper.cpp library, and adding support for more media formats. Furthermore, they added features such as a custom base URL for OpenAI and an option to extract speech. The user also made improvements to tests and build processes.
whisperbuzztranslatesaudioopenai
common-voice/common-voice
Mar 2019 - Jan 2023
Common Voice is part of Mozilla's initiative to help teach machines how real people speak.
Role in this project:Localization / Internationalization Specialist
Localization / Internationalization SpecialistContributions:3 reviews, 22 commits, 12 PRs in 3 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Raivis's contributions focused on updating the Latvian (lv) localization of the Common Voice project. They primarily translated and localized text strings within the project's user interface, specifically within the web/locales/lv/messages.ftl files, and also the files for the sentence collector. The commits show significant effort in adapting the project for the Latvian language, including modifications to the user interface strings. The work directly improved the project's accessibility for Latvian speakers.
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