Ilnar Salimzianov
Computational Linguist NLP Developer
Istanbul, Türkiye Turkey
Summary
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Top SchoolIlnar Salimzianov is a computational linguist and NLP developer with 14 years of experience building language technology from research-grade morphological transducers and parsers to production NLP models and services. Most recently at ProWritingAid he trained, fine-tuned and deployed transformer models on Azure ML using Hugging Face, Optimum and ONNX Runtime, and leveraged LLMs like ChatGPT and Claude 2 for data generation and labeling for tasks such as tone analysis, paraphrasing and grammar/style checking. He combines deep linguistic expertise—developed through work on Kazakh, Tatar and German corpora and speech systems—with practical engineering skills in Python, FastAPI, Docker and Terraform to ship reproducible, scalable NLP pipelines. An active contributor to Mozilla’s Common Voice localization for Tatar, he favors open, self-hostable tooling (many projects live on his GitLab) and is currently expanding into Keras/TensorFlow. Based in Istanbul, he blends academic rigor from a Stuttgart M.Sc. with hands-on product delivery across startups, research labs and freelance engagements.
14 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Specialist, German Philology, focus Linguistics, Specialist, German Philology, focus Linguistics at Kazan State UniversityM.Sc., Computational Linguistics, M.Sc., Computational Linguistics at University of Stuttgart
Tatar, Russian, German, English, Turkish
Github Skills (3)
internationalization10
localization10
translation10
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
common-voice/common-voice
Feb 2018 - Dec 2022
Common Voice is part of Mozilla's initiative to help teach machines how real people speak.
Role in this project:
Localization / Internationalization Specialist
Localization / Internationalization SpecialistContributions:175 commits, 4 comments, 2 issues in 4 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Ilnar's contributions primarily revolve around updating the Tatar (tt) localization for the Common Voice project. The commits involve modifying message files (messages.ftl) to update the translations and ensure that the Tatar language is accurately represented within the Common Voice platform. This work included the translation of numerous strings related to various aspects of the project. The changes likely improved the user experience for speakers of the Tatar language.
internet-freedommachinesinitiativeopen-datavoice
apertium/apertium-tat
Apr 2012 - Jul 2019
Contributions:1021 commits, 134 pushes, 2 branches in 7 years 3 months
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