Igor Afanasyev
Product Director at Smartcat
Greater Sacramento United States
Summary
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RockstarIgor Afanasyev is a Product Director and localization/internationalization leader with 14 years in software and 12+ years focused on l10n/i18n, currently shaping product strategy at Smartcat. He’s passionate about automation and process ROI, having architected and scaled Evernote’s localization program to 25+ languages while cutting direct translation costs by 50% through automation and tooling. Igor is the author of open-source localization tools such as Serge and Plurr, and combines hands-on engineering (parsers, translation servers) with product leadership to integrate localization into agile workflows. Based in Greater Sacramento, he’s known for pragmatic cross-team evangelism—helping designers, engineers and managers adopt i18n best practices—and for building technical layers that enable experimentation like cross-platform copy A/B testing.
14 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Russian, English
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (165)
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automation10
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prosemirror10
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wysiwyg10
javascript10
django10
internationalization10
localization10
golang10
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Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
serge-community/serge
Oct 2015 - Jan 2022
Continuous localization platform
Contributions:4 releases, 84 commits, 32 PRs in 6 years 3 months
localizationcontinuous-localizationinternationalizationl10ni18n
smartcatai/smartcat-serge-bootstrap
Jul 2020 - Jul 2021
A bootstrap project to setup continuous localization with Smartcat.
Contributions:19 commits, 1 PR, 21 pushes in 1 year
bootstraplocalizationl10nlocalizationservice
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