Marco Trombetti
Co-Founder And CEO at Translated
Rome, Lazio, Italy
Summary
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Top SchoolMarco Trombetti is a serial entrepreneur and technologist who co-founded and leads Translated, a pioneer in internet-based localization serving clients in 200+ languages and backed by a deep NLP practice. With roots in physics and early hacking—shipping audio/CD player algorithms at 15—he pairs hands-on engineering (including meaningful backend and database optimizations on open-source tools like MateCat) with long-term product vision. Beyond Translated, he built and exited cloud and ad-tech plays (Memopal, WebChatWorld) and now runs Pi Campus, an early-stage VC focused on applied AI and design-driven founders. Fluent in Italian, English and French, he still enjoys quick PHP hacks and actively researches machine-learning integrations to make human and machine translation work symbiotically.
12 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Istituto Massimiliano Massimo (Jesuit)Physics, Physics at University of Rome III, Fourier University Grenoble
Github Skills (6)
performance-tuning10
sql10
database-optimization10
php9
mysql8
database-design8
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
matecat/MateCat
Jan 2014 - Jan 2014
MateCat is an AI driven translation tool for language industry professionals. Matecat makes machine translation post-editing and project outsourcing easy.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer / Database Engineer
Back-end Developer / Database EngineerContributions:5 commits, 15 comments, 7 issues in 1 day
Contributions summary:Marco primarily focused on optimizing database queries and addressing performance bottlenecks within the MateCat translation tool. Their contributions involved modifying SQL queries to eliminate full table scans, improving the efficiency of retrieving segment data. They also made changes to the application's configuration related to CLI execution and session management, ensuring that the application's behavior in CLI environments is correctly handled. These changes suggest a focus on improving application performance and stability.
aimachine-translation
ModernMT/MMT
Dec 2015 - Jun 2019
Contributions:106 commits in 3 years 6 months
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