Marko Txopitea
Consultor IT at IDOM Consulting, Engineering, Architecture
Greater Bilbao Metropolitan Area Spain
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Top SchoolMarko Txopitea is an experienced IT consultant and engineer from the Greater Bilbao area with over 25 years of career breadth across systems administration, development, technical and functional analysis, project and technology leadership. He has led digital transformation and AI initiatives—spanning smart cities, transportation, waste management and CRM—while building innovation hubs and IT project offices for public and private clients across Europe. As CTO and project director he practices servant leadership to align technology strategy, R&D and team development with business goals, and has practical hands-on experience modernizing development infrastructures and integrating AI into e-learning platforms. He contributed to Mozilla’s Common Voice by localizing the Basque interface, reflecting a longer interest in language tech exemplified by creating a large Basque rhyme corpus and a speech-enabled mobile app for bertsolaris. Fluent in public sector digital services, Erasmus+ projects and cross-border deployments, he combines deep technical roots with a strong track record as a trainer, speaker and technology communicator. Marko’s blend of grassroots engineering, multilingual open-source work and strategic IT leadership makes him a pragmatic bridge between research, product and operational delivery.
9 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Ingeniero, Informática, Ingeniero, Informática at University of Deusto
Basque, Spanish, English
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Github Skills (3)
internationalization10
localization10
translation10
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
common-voice/common-voice
Oct 2018 - Jan 2023
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:137 commits, 3 PRs, 7 comments in 4 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Marko's contributions focused on localizing the Common Voice project, specifically by updating the Basque (eu) language files. The commits involved modifications to message and cross-locale files, and the changes primarily involved translating user interface elements, adding language-specific content, and adjusting text strings for the Basque language. The impact of this work is to provide a user-friendly interface in the Basque language for Common Voice project.
internet-freedommachinesinitiativeopen-datavoice
Txopi/kamisetak
Aug 2019 - Sep 2019
Contributions:25 pushes, 1 branch in 18 days
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