Justin Douglas
Freelance Translator
Punta Gorda, Florida, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJustin Douglas is an independent developer specializing in language tools and NLP with a decade of experience building practical linguistic systems that bridge structured data and user-facing interfaces. He designs and ships full-stack products—like Slovarish (Russian-English with morphological analysis), SaoLa (Vietnamese popup dictionary), and Kaprao (Thai lexical DB and Chrome extension)—that solve hard problems like word segmentation and out-of-vocabulary handling. A former Japanese-English translator and computational linguistics practitioner, he combines language expertise (JLPT N1-level translation experience) with hands-on engineering across Flask, HTMX, PostgreSQL, and custom NLP pipelines. Justin has repeatedly taken projects from research and data assembly through deployment and monetization, including freemium and third-party API integrations. Based in Florida after years in Southeast Asia, he prefers remote roles where linguistic insight and systems engineering intersect. An avid language learner and hobbyist programmer, he often mines multilingual sources (e.g., parallel Wikipedia) to bootstrap lexical resources rather than relying solely on off-the-shelf datasets.
10 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), History of Art, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), History of Art at University of Michigan
Japanese, Portuguese
Github Skills (65)
nlp9
parser9
cython9
named-entity-recognition9
language-processing9
turkish9
text-classification9
corenlp8
data-preprocessing8
neural8
python8
entity-linking8
fairness-ml8
arabic-nlp8
spacy8
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
tabidots/tabidots.github.io
Jan 2019 - Aug 2022
Contributions:1 PR, 37 pushes, 3 branches in 3 years 7 months
tabidots/claire-web-app
Jul 2016 - Sep 2021
Contributions:23 commits, 21 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 2 months
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