Summary
Victorien Villiers is a Localization Solutions and AI Specialist with eight years of experience blending hands-on NLP engineering, machine translation strategy, and localization program management across gaming, publishing, and agency environments. He has led MT model development, automated QA and TMS integrations at Electronic Arts and now drives AI-powered localization infrastructure and API-driven workflows at Elsevier. A former translator and instructor, he uniquely combines practical translation know-how with technical skills in Python, NMT training, and data preparation to bridge linguists, data scientists and engineering teams. He regularly designs metrics, BI reporting and automated quality checks to turn linguistic insights into scalable processes. Victorien’s background includes building linguistic resources and teaching applied translation and localization, giving him an unusual depth in both theoretical and production sides of language technology. Based in the Cologne–Bonn region, he focuses on making translator-facing technologies reliable, scalable and impactful for global content delivery.
8 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
MA in Natural Language Processing, Computational Linguistics, MA in Natural Language Processing, Computational Linguistics at Institut national des langues et civilisations orientales (Inalco)
MA in Translation Studies, English and Spanish > French, MA in Translation Studies, English and Spanish > French at Université Gustave Eiffel