Faces of Gengo: Mohamed
We asked Gengo translators to tell us a little about their lives. Over 80 people responded with stories about their home, translation method, and more. We’ve compiled these into a series of mini-interviews that will be appearing here every two weeks. One thing is clear: Our translators are ...
Lessons in localization: Upcoming October events
Trying to find the most efficient way to get your online presence and products out there in the right languages? Globalization industry events are excellent for learning best practices and discovering the latest and greatest product and service offerings. Dive into this learning next month, when ...
Improving our development process
Since I joined Gengo last year, we’ve made many improvements to the engineering process. At that time, there was no configuration management for our infrastructure (e.g., Puppet, Chef, etc.), almost no automated tests and no monitoring or visibility into service health. Bugs were often found by u...
Five ways to find the “right quality”
In his post about the Translation Automation User Society (TAUS) Leadership Forum in Dublin, Gengo’s co-founder and CEO Matt Romaine mentions that a “recurring theme was a shifting expectation and definition of “quality”. Close to that time, many of us also read Nataly Kelly’s Huffpost article ab...
5 reasons why every college student should intern at a startup
We all carry a few regrets from college, with “excess” or “not enough” being the common words to describe them. My biggest regret by far (okay, second biggest) was missing out on the chance to intern for a startup. Fortunately, life has a funny way of throwing up second chances. Seven years after...
Observations from the 2013 TAUS Industry Leaders Forum
Last month I had the opportunity to present at the Translation Automation User Society’s (TAUS) Industry Leaders Forum. The event brings together major buyers and sellers of translation to discuss trends in the industry and share how they are tackling challenges around translation. Particip...