Natalia Kurysheva

Natalia Kurysheva

Senior Technical Program Manager at Amazon Web Services (AWS)

Qualifications

Senior Technical Program Manager at AWS, leading AI and LLM-powered machine translation programs

Nearly 10 years at Agilent Technologies leading AI-driven multilingual content workflows

15+ years in localization across vendor and client sides, including project management and team leadership

Expertise

Localization

Machine translation

Technical program management

LLM evaluation

Multilingual content

Localization automation

Being an experienced localization specialist and internationalization evangelist, I believe that the main goal of any Localization team is to drive excellence and innovation in order to maintain a close connection with stakeholders regardless of which language they speak. ♦ I have 15+ years of experience in localization (both vendor and client sides) including 7 years working as a project manager and team lead. ♦ During my journey I have developed pragmatic mindset as well as extraordinary organizational and communicational skills and became truly a team player. ♦ I constantly work on developing myself as a professional and try to keep an eye on all the latest technologies and developments in order to provide scaling and optimization of localization processes. ♦ Besides that, as I see that localization is becoming more and more technological I believe it is very important for localization project managers and specialists to develop technical expertise. Therefore, I devote most of my spare time to learning programming (Python).

Experience

Senior Technical Program Manager at Amazon Web Services (AWS)

Apr 2024 — Present · 2 yrs 3 mos

Leads technical programs for AI systems and LLM-powered capabilities across AWS Support, including LLM evaluation frameworks and the evolution of the AWS machine translation platform.

Senior Program Manager at Agilent Technologies

Jun 2014 to Apr 2024 · 9 yrs 10 mos

Led cross-functional programs launching AI-driven and machine translation workflows for multilingual content, reducing turnaround time by 35%.

Project Manager at Sochi 2014 Organizing Committee

Dec 2011 to Mar 2014 · 2 yrs 3 mos

Managed translation projects and quality control for the Sochi 2014 Olympic and Paralympic Games.

Head of Localization Unit at Accent Language Center

May 2009 to Dec 2011 · 2 yrs 7 mos

Led the translation and interpretation department, implementing translation software and quality control systems.

Translator at Kinross Gold Corporation

Aug 2007 to Feb 2009 · 1 yr 6 mos

Provided translation and consecutive interpreting for technical and business materials.

Qualifications

Senior Technical Program Manager at AWS, leading AI and LLM-powered machine translation programs

Nearly 10 years at Agilent Technologies leading AI-driven multilingual content workflows

15+ years in localization across vendor and client sides, including project management and team leadership

Expertise

Localization

Machine translation

Technical program management

LLM evaluation

Multilingual content

Localization automation

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