Meet Irina Rybnikova — Head of User Assitance Department at Positive Technologies at Smartcat

Irina Rybnikova

Head of User Assitance Department at Positive Technologies

Irina Rybnikova is a documentation and localization professional with over two decades of experience leading localization and technical writing teams. She headed the User Assistance Department at Positive Technologies and previously ran localization services at Yandex, where her team localized services into 70+ languages, and spent more than a decade in documentation and localization management at Kaspersky Lab. She is a co-founder of Loc Rocks, a career mentor and coach, and a localization community leader.

Experience

Head of User Assistance Department at Positive Technologies

Oct 2018 to Jan 2025 · 6 yrs 3 mos

Led the user assistance (documentation and localization) department.

Head of Localization Service at Yandex

Jul 2016 to Oct 2018 · 2 yrs 3 mos

Led localization of Yandex services into 70+ languages.

Endpoint & FutureTech Doc & Loc Group Manager at Kaspersky Lab

Oct 2003 to Jul 2016 · 12 yrs 9 mos

Progressed from localization engineer and technical writer to doc & localization group manager over 12+ years.

Localization Project Manager at Arsenal

Jan 1999 to Jan 2003 · 4 yrs

Managed localization projects.

Recent articles and events

Panel discussion: "The importance of community in the translation and localization industry"

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