Azat Salikhov is a Forward Deployed Engineer at Smartcat, where he leads L&D solutions for global enterprises including Johnson & Johnson, Abbott, and Veeva. Before joining Smartcat, he spent five years leading course production for a Coursera-partner platform, managing a team of 20+ instructional designers and localizing hundreds of courses — the exact problems he now solves from the other side. He specializes in SCORM and Storyline translation workflows, AI-driven content maintenance, and helping L&D teams move from one-time translation projects to continuously updated multilingual content.
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