Alberto Pettarin
Welcome!
I am a Python/C/Lua software engineer interested in speech and NLP technologies, high performance computing, and digital publishing.
IMPORTANT UPDATE: I am actively looking for exciting opportunities for the next chapter of my professional journey, starting in April 2026: see the news page.
From June 2017 to November 2025 I worked in the text-to-speech research and development (TTS R&D) team of Cerence AI, Inc. (spin-off of Nuance Communications, Inc.) in Turin, Italy. My last position was a Senior Principal Software Engineer working primarily on Cerence Neural TTS, the highest quality TTS cloud service based on neural network AI models accelerated by NVIDIA GPUs.
Previously, I was a Freelance Python/C Developer, and before that I was the (co-founder, CEO, and) Head of Research of ReadBeyond, a research lab developing innovative software for producing, distributing, and enjoying digital contents.
In another life, I was a Research Collaborator at the Department of Information Engineering of the University of Padua, where I got a PhD in Theoretical Computer Science in 2012, for studying random geometric graphs and doing probabilistic analysis of information spreading processes.
I maintain a couple of personal projects, most of them are also on GitHub.
I occasionally write on my blog.
You can get my CV here. Feel free to get in touch.
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