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Translator

Mikhail Pershin

See also my resumes for web developer and DevOps engineer at frcdr.com.

About Me

Working languages: Russian (native), English (professional), Spanish (elementary), German (elementary).

I specialize in technical translation and localization, especially where language work intersects with software, infrastructure, documentation, and user-facing product materials. My technical background helps me understand the systems being described rather than translate terminology mechanically.

Work Experience

Translator at GEOSTEERING Ltd., Krasnoyarsk, 06.2023–02.2024

Field: Oil and Gas Industry

Translated software documentation, technical support manuals, and promotional materials into English and Spanish, occasionally into Russian. I also corrected the company website translation on WordPress and worked with terminology in a specialized oil-and-gas domain.

Created and maintained a multilingual glossary of terms with definitions and usage examples. To support this work, I developed a tool that searched for examples of term usage in context within a corpus of translated texts.

Web Developer at Seoslon, Krasnoyarsk, 09.2024–10.2025

Supported and improved more than 30 websites on WordPress, 1C-Bitrix, OpenCart, and other platforms. This work required careful reading of requirements, precise written communication, and frequent coordination with SEO specialists, designers, managers, and clients.

The development role strengthened the same qualities that matter in translation: attention to context, consistency, terminology discipline, and the ability to understand complex systems quickly. It also gave me practical experience with website localization, CMS content, parsing and structuring large volumes of data, and technical documentation.

System Administrator, Cloud Solutions Department, NLS Kazakhstan, Almaty, since 10.2025

In my current role, I work with cloud, hosting, virtualization, backups, mail, storage, monitoring, and internal documentation. For the translation profile, this is valuable domain knowledge: I regularly deal with English-language technical interfaces, product terminology, vendor documentation, and the real context behind IT texts.

Skills

Translation and language work: technical translation, business translation, localization, consecutive interpreting basics, transcription, terminology management, glossary development, and editing of translated web content.

Domain knowledge: software documentation, user support materials, oil-and-gas terminology, web development, hosting infrastructure, cloud services, virtualization, backups, mail systems, and IT operations.

Work style: attention to detail, intercultural communication, teamwork, adaptability, research, lawful use of neural networks, and understanding of licensing and copyright principles.

Tools

  • CAT tools (computer-assisted translation): SmartCAT, Crowdin, Weblate, memoQ, Poedit, Multiterm, SDL Trados;
  • Software for working with photos, videos, and audio: Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, Inkscape, Premiere and After Effects, Audacity, Figma;
  • Localization of Android and iOS applications using Android Studio and Xcode

Education

Siberian Federal University, School of Philology and Language Communication

Linguistics (Bachelor's), 2020–2024

Technology is a field I have been interested in, studied, and worked in through­out my life, with a focus on web develop­ment, loca­li­zation, user expe­rience, security, and systems design. As for my linguistic education, it helps me see more ways in which tech­nology can be applied around the world, allowing me to take into account many more per­spectives in my decisions.

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