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Harshal Kulkarni

@harshalkulkarni

I am a language expert and translator specializing in Gujarati–English–Russian translations and linguistic data projects.

India

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What I'm looking for

I seek roles leveraging my linguistic and translation expertise in speech/NLP projects, collaborative teams, and impactful, technology-driven language work with room for technical growth.

I am a language professional with extensive experience translating and proofreading across Gujarati, English, and Russian, having translated over 500,000 words for technical and non-technical domains. I deliver high-quality linguistic work in medical, legal, financial, educational, religious, and engineering content.

I contribute to speech and language technology projects, including speech recognition, text-to-speech (TTS), and machine translation, and I work on phoneme identification and IPA transcription. I build balanced corpora, develop lexicons with phonemic representations, and document quality-control procedures for linguistic pipelines.

In senior roles I have improved multilingual item encoding accuracy, conducted internal language training to reduce ambiguity, created glossaries that cut delivery time by roughly 20%, and supported cross-lingual communication in technical commissioning and expatriate training scenarios.

Experience

Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

Current

Gujarati Translator / Linguistic Expert

Current

Freelancing

Jan 2016 - Present (10 years 5 months)

Provided high-quality Gujarati–English–Russian translation, proofreading, and interpretation across technical and non-technical domains, translating 500,000+ words and supporting TTS, ASR, and machine translation projects.