Co-Founder And Cto
Langprism - Web Service For Professional Multilanguage Translation Of Websites
LangPrism is a web service focused on professional multilanguage translation of SME websites in order to get more visitors and increase sales. My responsibilities on this position included:- Running a startup as a CTO with my co-founder- Creating architecture built upon Microsoft technologies and Microsoft Azure Cloud.- Implementing most of critical core components of the service including:--- In-context webpage translation--- Instant webpage translation transformations--- Translation memory implementation and design--- Natural language processing, translation quality estimation--- Category detection based on supervised machine learning- Undertaking major technological decisions according to business needs- Managing a team of software developers inside the company- Giving talks, pitches and presentations on different networking and investment events- Hiring and interviewing new team members- Figuring out business model, talking to customers, user acquisition, community management, talking to investors, etc (in startup one really has to do almost everything)Achievements:- LangPrism was marked as one of the hottest Russian startups in 2013 by Mashable- BIT-Siberia (Business in Information Technology) competition for innovative businesses - 1st place (2012)Other info: for me it was the first experience of doing a business with my partner after working as an employee. It was a great time of success and failure that taught me a lot on how technological business work and prepared strong ground and theoretical knowledge on how to run my own company