Luis Javier Santiago Cano
@luisjaviersantiagoca
I build scalable AI, machine translation, and localization products that improve adoption, ROI, and global operations.
What I'm looking for
I've led AI, machine translation, and localization programs at Welocalize and Lionbridge, connecting business stakeholders, engineering teams, and global operations. At Welocalize, I deployed the OPAL Enable GenAI framework for localization workflows and built data governance through automated Power BI reporting.
Over more than 20 years, I've owned language-technology product lifecycles, global MT budgets, and multilingual delivery across international teams. At Lionbridge, I developed ETL and SQL workflows, advanced Power BI dashboards, and Python/R statistical analysis that helped increase user adoption from 10% to over 60%, while maintaining ISO 18587 quality and audit readiness.
Experience
Work history, roles, and key accomplishments
- Program Deployment & Optimization: Led the initial production rollouts of the "OPAL Enable" framework, a GenAI layer applied to localization workflows. Acted as a strategic bridge by identifying operational inefficiencies and providing the critical feedback loop used to re-engineer workflows for global, scalable AI production.
- Data Strategy & Performance Governance: Orchestrated statistical an
Personal goal pursuit
Career Break
Oct 2023 - Feb 2024 (4 months)
AI Medical Assistant for ENT Specialists
Designed and developed an MVP for an AI-powered medical assistant focused on ENT (Ear, Nose, and Throat) specialties using a large language model (LLM). Delivered via WhatsApp for easy access by doctors, the assistant provided accurate answers based on trusted medical literature and retrieved relevant PubMed articles for each query, ranked by relevance.
- Global Team Leadership: Led and directed a global Machine Translation (MT) team across Asia, Europe, and the Americas, overseeing the end-to-end implementation and maintenance of MT systems, translating complex client requirements into technical product specifications while continuously optimizing workflows to drive operational efficiency.
- Worldwide Budgetary Authority: Held full responsibilit
- End-to-End Product Accountability: Accountable for the full lifecycle of in-house language technology products, from initial ideation and R&D design to deployment and ongoing operational support.
- Cross-functional Collaboration: Led cross-functional Agile teams (comprising software engineers, data scientists, and linguistic specialists) to integrate technological advancements into scalable prod
Leading product localization for several industries: Retail, Banking, IT, Consulting, Marketing, Multimedia, Medical, CBT and Software Development, e-Learning, etc.
Leading terminology localization of Core Banking solutions
Localization of retail solution in four languages. Technical writing, Translation and Testing services provided during three years along three upgrades.
Leading localization of the On-line and Printed documentation of Microsoft FrontPage 2000 into five languages
Leading localization of the On-line and Printed documentation of Microsoft Visual Basic 6.0 into Spanish
Tech and Linguistic Reviewer, Tech writer, Localization Engineer, Multilingual L
Sep 1994 - Jan 1997 (2 years 4 months)
+ Technical and Linguistic reviewer of user manuals focused on Computer applications.
+ Technical writer of User and Technical manuals of retail software.
+ Localization engineer of On-Line User Documentations based on Windows platform.
+ Multilingual Localization Tester of several computer applications running on Microsoft Operating Systems.
+ Desktop Publishing jobs on User Manuals using Qu
Education
Degrees, certifications, and relevant coursework
Universidad Politécnica de Madrid
Summer Course, Statistical Inference
2016 - 2016
Universidad Politécnica de Madrid
Bsc, Computer Science
1991 - 1995
Degree Project : “Sistemas de computación basados en servidor (Windows Terminal Server y Citrix Metaframe) Metodología de diseño y trabajo” (Computed Systems based on Server -Windows Terminal Server and Citrix Metaframe- Design and Work Methodology)
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