Founded · 2013–2018
Translation Exchange
Localization platform and TMS marketplace
Role: CTO / Co-Founder
Organization
What the company did
Translation Exchange was a localization startup that productized contextual translation technology into a TMS with an LSP marketplace, platform connectors, and real-time customer-support translation.
Relationship
How I relate to it
I co-founded the company and served as CTO—steering product, marketplace integrations, and a growing engineering team from accelerator through funding.
Influence
What stayed with me
Founding TX forced every hard lesson about product-market fit, shipping under constraint, and building a team that could own a complex linguistic problem end to end.
Projects
Work from this chapter
Translation Exchange · 2013 – 2018
Translation Exchange — language as structured meaning
Turning Translation Markup Language into a global localization platform spanning SDKs, translation management, community workflows, professional services, and shared translation memory.
Read the case studyGeni · 2009 – 2018
Translation Markup Language — expressing meaning, not strings
A language and runtime for representing dynamic product language as composable semantics—tokens, pluralization, gender, cases, decoration, and word order—across frameworks and human languages.
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People I worked with
Collaborators from this organization who appear in the People directory.
Co-Founder & Product Lead, Translation Exchange · Former Director of Product Development, Geni
Ian helped turn TML’s deeply technical language model into translator and product experiences people could understand. Our collaboration connected semantic localization infrastructure to in-context workflows and a coherent cross-platform product.
Connected
Themes