| Translator's name: | Simon Muiruri Ng'ang'a |
| Language pair: | English to Swahili translator |
| Country of residence: | Kenya |
| Activity: | Active since 2026 |
| Membership status: | Basic member |
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Simon Muiruri Ng’ang’a Native Swahili Speaker Translator | Transcriptionist | AI Data Annotator MAJOR PROJECTS: Facebook, Google, Transsion, Uber AI . PERSONAL SUMMARY Experienced English to Swahili Translator and Transcriptionist with a demonstrated history of working in the translation and localization industry using various software technologies in the fields of business, IT, user interface, help content, transcreation, technical documentation, legal terms, product testing and bug fixing. I can further support with strong transcription skills. I am excited to contribute to your team and help bridge language barriers within your global reach, bringing forth a positive work ethic and a commitment to efficiency and integrity. PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE One Hour Translation Services (FACEBOOK Project) – Swahili Reviewer December 2016 to date Fields: General, Social Media, Education, Business & Commerce Have successfully translated and reviewed 99,300 words. Duties: • Translating content, ensuring that the meaning and feeling of the original material is retained. • Checking translations of technical terms to ensure that they are accurate and remain consistent throughout translation revisions. • Proofreading, editing, revising and rating translated materials. Appen – Swahili Transcriber / Annotation February 2017 to date Fields: News, Sports, Business & Commerce, Information Technology Have successfully transcribed and translated over 275,000 words. Duties: • Transcribing utterances from mixed Swahili dialects. • Referring to reference materials such as dictionaries, lexicons and terminology banks as needed to ensure wordlist accuracy. • Quality assurance, peer review and validation. Stepes – Swahili Translator November 2017 to date Fields: Religion & Software Localization Have successfully translated 16,601 words. Duties: • Translating religious content faithfully, accurately and integrally, while approximating the patterns of thought and style to the target audience. Vistatec (GOOGLE Project) – External Reviewer (Swahili Localization) December 2022 to date Fields: Software Localization & Testing, Websites, Transcreation, Legal, AI Have successfully reviewed over 3,400 hours of a wide range of content from translation vendors (approx. 3,400,000 words). Duties: • Objective assessment of translations to ensure consistency and appropriateness of style, tone, terminology and adherence to common locale. Boo World – Exclusive Swahili Translator February 2023 to date Fields: Software Localization, Psychology, Social Media, Transcreation Have successfully translated 57,800 words. Duties: • Translating concepts into user flows, wireframes, mockups and prototypes that lead to intuitive user experiences. • Providing commercial translations for website copy, social media platforms, mobile apps and promotional materials including video subtitles. Andovar Localization Services – Swahili Translator / Proofreader April 2023 to date Fields: Video Games, Films & TV, Telecommunication Have successfully translated 24,000 words. Duties: • Translating film subtitles, ensuring accuracy, brevity and cultural relevance. • Translating video games while setting creative vision for the target audience. Power Translations International – Phonetic Transcriber April 2023 to date Fields: General Have successfully transcribed 5600 words. Duties: Translating terms and marking with a phonetic symbol to indicate the pronunciation. Dr. Localize – Swahili Translator / Proofreader May 2023 to date Fields: Pharmaceutical Patent, Patient Facing Materials, Clinical Trials Have successfully translated and reviewed approximately 53,000 words. Duties: • Translating medical and pharmaceutical materials accurately to bridge the gap between medical experts, patients, and manufacturers globally. ICS-Translate – Swahili Translator / Proofreader May 2023 to date Fields: Legal, Online Gaming/Gambling Have successfully translated over 284,000 words. Duties: Translating T&Cs with high proficiency of legal and gambling terminology. ClearlyLoc (TRANSSION Project) – Kikuyu Translator / Team Leader May 2023 to date Fields: Software Localization, Technical, Legal Have successfully translated 86,000 words. Duties: Translating complex UI strings with high proficiency of legal and IT terminology. Magnon Sancus (Open AI Project) – AI Dataset Curator / Swahili Linguist September 2025 to date Fields: Data Evaluation, Response Ranking, and Model Refinement Have successfully evaluated over 2,500 prompts & datasets. Duties: Recording audio data to improve AI model performance, creating structured datasets, evaluating and ranking model outputs, and fine-tuning training data for better alignment with target quality metrics. EDUCATION Diploma in Information Technology - 2008 Tracom College (Kenya National Examinations Council) Bachelor of Arts (Humanities & Social Sciences) - 2022 Kenyatta University, Kenya English & Swahili: Phonetics, Phonology, Morphology, Syntax, Sociolinguistics, Ethnology CERTIFICATION Machine Translation Post Editing (MTPE) (RWS) SOFTWARE Translation tools (Professional Proficiency Level): SDL Trados, Crowdin, Polyglot, Phrase, MemoQ, Smartcat, Matecat e.t.c. REFEREES 1. Joanna Clemente Localization Manager Boo World joanna@boo.world 2. Lena Wiedemann Translation Project Manager ICS-Translate lena.wiedemann@ics-translate.com 3. Deeksha Sharma Manager – Key Accounts Magnon Sancus deeksha.sharma@magnonsancus.com 4. Ronja Nguyen Vendor Manager Dr. Localize ronja@drlocalize.com | |
