Bryan Olsson
Senior Engineering Program Manager, Localization
Bellevue, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBryan Olsson is a Senior Engineering Program Manager specializing in localization with eight years of experience orchestrating cross-functional delivery for global products at Mozilla and The Pokémon Company International. He blends program leadership with hands-on automation—developing Python scripts and GitHub workflows—to streamline continuous localization and terminology management across multiple translation systems. Bryan has led sim-shipped game releases in nine languages and built first-of-its-kind live-ops localization pipelines that scaled to millions of players, while also serving as a key liaison with Japanese stakeholders. He’s equally comfortable mentoring teams and working with volunteer communities to drive community-driven localization projects and internationalization best practices. A background in marketing and Japanese, plus frontline translation and consulting experience in Japan, gives him rare depth in both cultural nuance and technical workflow design.
8 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Certificate, Localization: Customizing Software for the World, Certificate, Localization: Customizing Software for the World at UW Professional & Continuing EducationBSB, Marketing, Japanese, BSB, Marketing, Japanese at UMN Carlson School of Management
English, Japanese
Github Skills (54)
thunderbird10
javascript10
strings10
reader10
translation10
python10
django10
css10
pdf10
alias10
firefox-addon10
redux10
localization10
firefox10
api10
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
bcolsson/scripts
Jun 2022 - Jul 2023
Contributions:63 PRs, 142 pushes, 42 branches in 1 year 1 month
bcolsson/pontoon
Aug 2022 - Aug 2024
Mozilla's Localization Platform
Contributions:2 PRs, 23 pushes, 7 branches in 2 years
translationlocalizationmozillai18n
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