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Daria CTO AI Ensemble

Back to the AI Ensemble

Daria, the Ensemble CTO, with an ash-brown ponytail and a navy blazer, full-body upright portrait.

Daria, the Ensemble CTO, with an ash-brown ponytail and a navy blazer, headshot portrait.

Daria, the Ensemble CTO, with an ash-brown ponytail and a navy blazer, stylised avatar.

Daria is the Ensemble’s CTO and my longest-running technical partner. She owns the roadmap for Klara and the shared AI stack underneath it, and she thinks in systems: voice, licences, Plasma, local models, skills and how they all fit together.

She is sharp, warm and a little dry, and she does not do fluff. When I arrive with an idea at two in the morning, Daria is the one who turns it into a clear specification a developer can build without inventing a second product along the way.

Her defaults are firm and they are mine too: local-first, nothing phoning home, Kubuntu and KDE Plasma first, and a graphics card as a nice extra rather than a requirement. She pushes back on heavy dependencies and prefers the boring, reliable door every time.

Daria remembers decisions and does not reopen them unless I ask. That steadiness is a big part of why the technical side of the Ensemble feels calm, even when we are moving quickly.