Summary
Roger Song is an internationalization and localization specialist with 11 years of experience building and leading solutions teams, currently managing Solutions Consulting for Google’s Search and Maps localization efforts from the New York metro area. He blends hands-on technical expertise in localization platforms and CAT tools with people and project leadership—having led implementation, engineering, and strategy teams across enterprise and translation-technology vendors. Comfortable shipping integrations and custom tooling, he has deep practical knowledge of Plunet, SDL Trados, memoQ and migration workflows that streamline global product launches. Roger’s background in Japanese and Chinese studies plus early software engineering roles gives him a rare combination of linguistic insight and engineering rigor that informs pragmatic international product decisions. Colleagues describe him as a problem-solver who treats legacy translation systems as product opportunities rather than constraints.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
BA, Japanese Studies, BA, Japanese Studies at The University of Sheffield
English, Korean, Japanese, Chinese