Erika lives in her hometown of São Paulo, Brazil, but dreams of one day living in Japan. She counts her main interests as languages, Harry Potter, and sci-fi movies (possibly not in that order). This English to Portuguese-Brazilian translator loves being able to work from almost anywhere in the w...

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At Gengo, we track a wide array of metrics for all our translators. Looking at the average speed at which our translators work, for example, allows us to serve our customers who need large amounts of text translated in a short time frame. In addition, translator’s quality scores tell us what type...

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Jesse works in the Marina District in San Francisco. Having worked as a VP of Marketing for four different startups in Silicon Valley, he now builds Japanese-English translation into his work running a cross-cultural marketing and PR firm in the city. How did you become a translator? Do you trans...

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Although Ana has only lived for a few months outside her home country of Portugal, she translates across four language pairs: English to Portuguese, French to Portuguese, Spanish to Portuguese and Portuguese to English. Outside of a short-lived childhood dream of wanting to become a firefighter, ...

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Nick’s road to translation began in high school when he began studying Japanese. While living in Sapporo after college, he took his love for the language one step further, translating real estate documents for Australian ski lovers. Nick now resides in the San Francisco Bay Area and works from ne...

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After working briefly as an air hostess following her time in school, Marina considers herself lucky to be able to do what she truly loves: translating. Having lived in Budapest, Málaga, Malta and Cork, this Face of Gengo is now back in her home country of Italy where she works full-time as an En...

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