Agility and Scalability in Localization

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Mindflash provides a cloud-hosted high scale learning management solution serving 1000+ customers, including several Fortune 500 companies. To better serve an increasingly distributed workforce and trainee base, Mindflash globalized its offering. The company recently rolled out support for over 7 languages in weeks (https://www.mindflash.com/blog/2014/09/going-global-with-our-online-training-system/), architected for new language addition or content modification within a few hours. This talk shares details about the challenge in doing this for an offering that supports a wide variety of devices and training cultures and the approach adopted in node.js and angular.js

Shobana Radhakrishnan started with Mindflash in March 2014 as Vice President of Engineering and is responsible for its technical strategy and overall engineering execution. Prior to this, she led the development of cloud-based systems enabling personalization and globalization at Netflix. She has also played various engineering leadership roles at Yahoo, Symantec and Excite@Home. Shobana is an active industry speaker interested in cloud migration, high scale fault-tolerant web application architectures, and holds a Master's degree in Computer Science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Josh Iverson is a senior developer at Mindflash and has been with them for over 5 years. He started with Java programming over a decade ago, then worked with Flash/Flex and has more recently taken on html5 programming as Mindflash expanded their offering to support mobile devices and tablets in addition to the web-based offering.

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