Simon Sorg
AI Scientist Intern at Mistral AI
Cambridge, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolSimon Sorg is an AI-focused software engineer and MPhil graduate from Cambridge with five years of hands-on experience building production-grade systems and startups. Currently an AI Scientist Intern at Mistral AI, he has a strong track record in speech and language systems—co-founding and exiting a self-hosted ASR startup and working as an ASR engineer and research-oriented intern. His contributions to prominent open-source projects include integrating ElevenLabs TTS into Home Assistant, demonstrating attention to privacy-aware, local-first tooling and robust backend engineering. Simon blends rigorous academic training (Distinction at Cambridge and top honors from Hasso Plattner Institute) with practical product delivery, from tutoring university courses to shipping real-world speech pipelines. Notably, he combines research-grade reasoning work with entrepreneurial instincts, making him adept at turning novel ML ideas into scalable, user-facing systems.
5 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Abitur, 1.0, Abitur, 1.0 at Alexander-von Humboldt Gymnasium GreifswaldMaster of Philosophy - MPhil, Advanced Computer Science, Distinction, Master of Philosophy - MPhil, Advanced Computer Science, Distinction at University of CambridgeBachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, 1.1 - with distinction, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, 1.1 - with distinction at Hasso Plattner InstituteBachelor's Project, Computer and Information Sciences and Support Services, Bachelor's Project, Computer and Information Sciences and Support Services at Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
German, English, French
Github Skills (13)
apim10
home-assistant10
text-to-speech10
configurations10
api10
python10
configuration-file10
asyncio10
testing9
iot6
internet-of-things6
mqttnet5
mqtt5
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
home-assistant/core
Dec 2023 - Mar 2025
:house_with_garden: Open source home automation that puts local control and privacy first.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:52 reviews, 14 PRs, 105 comments in 1 year 3 months
Contributions summary:Simon primarily focused on integrating the ElevenLabs text-to-speech service into the Home Assistant core. Their contributions included adding the initial integration, implementing configuration flows, and adding voice settings to the options flow. They also made improvements by refactoring code, addressing review suggestions, and updating dependencies. Furthermore, they ensured the proper functionality of the integration, including the service calls and error handling.
raspberry-pipythonhouseprivacy-firstasyncio
sorgfresser/homeassistant-core
Dec 2023 - Feb 2025
:house_with_garden: Open source home automation that puts local control and privacy first.
Contributions:49 pushes, 20 branches in 1 year 2 months
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