Tommi Nieminen
Developer at OPUS-CAT
Antwerp, Antwerp, Finland
Summary
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Top SchoolTommi Nieminen is a machine translation developer and translator with over a decade of hands-on translation experience and eight years focused on MT engineering and CAT tool integration. He builds secure, locally deployable NMT solutions and plugins (Trados, memoQ, OmegaT, Wordfast) that bring OPUS-MT and MarianNMT models into translators’ everyday workflows, including local fine-tuning for domain data. His background in linguistics and practical translation gives him a rare user-centered perspective on what makes MT outputs genuinely useful—especially for challenging Finnish-target tasks. He has a track record of shipping productivity tools (e.g., TermInjector) and automations that reduce manual project work, and he researches evaluation methods for English→Finnish MT for his MA at the University of Helsinki. Pragmatic and technical, he moves comfortably between C#, Python, plugin development and corpus work, often focusing on workflow problems rather than any single MT architecture. Based in Antwerp with Finnish roots, he advocates sensible translation automation that benefits individual translators financially and professionally.
8 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Language Technology, Master's degree, Language Technology at University of HelsinkiBA Philosophy, Philosophy, BA Philosophy, Philosophy at Heythrop College, U. of London
Finnish, English, Swedish, French
Github Skills (80)
text-processing10
squashfs10
snap10
praat10
localization10
cli10
cucumber10
storage10
distributions10
normalization10
linguistics10
filesystem10
snapshots10
undo10
weblate9
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
Legisign/Praat-textgrids
Feb 2019 - Sep 2022
Praat textgrid manipulation in Python
Contributions:1 release, 74 commits, 5 PRs in 3 years 7 months
manipulationpythonpraattext-processingnormalization
Legisign/modo
Jul 2021 - Mar 2025
Contributions:20 pushes, 4 branches in 3 years 8 months
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