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Valeriy M.

Russian and Ukrainian Interpreter and AI Linguistic QA Specialist

Native Russian/Ukrainian interpreter and AI linguistic QA specialist | EN↔RU/UK 100% Job Success · Top Rated Plus · $100K+ earned across 200+ projects Rates: interpretation from $65/hr (2-hr minimum) · linguistic QA from $43/hr · translation from $0.08/word — message before sending an offer with your deadline and subject matter. I deliver live interpretation (consecutive or simultaneous) for conferences and virtual events — clients include Teach For All (sessions up to 128 participants), IsraAID, and a UN-funded research project on countering violent extremism in Central Asia (Opcit Research) — alongside linguistic QA and post-editing for generative AI systems, evaluating and correcting AI-generated Ukrainian/Russian output against structured rubrics. My grounding is 13 years as translator/interpreter on a EUR 400M nuclear safety programme at Chornobyl NPP — zero tolerance for error was a contractual, not aspirational, standard. That same rigor now applies to AI output evaluation: I hold current linguistic QA roles with RWS (Amazon) and previously Scale AI, assessing AI-generated text for accuracy, ranking model responses, and correcting machine translation against rubric-based scoring. Tools: Zoom (including interpretation feature with language channels), MS Teams, Google Meet; Jira, Confluence; MemoQ, Phrase, Transifex, Localise, Crowdin.

🇺🇦Slavutych, Ukraine$43/hr100% JSS4.87 (101)Since Feb 2013

Earnings and projects

MRR
$996

Last 6 months ÷ 6

World#48,376 / 412k
🇺🇦Country#2,135 / 14.3k
Revenue, last 30 days
$688

Last 6 months: $6k

World#54,235 / 412k
🇺🇦Country#2,127 / 14.3k
Total earnings
$123k

Billed in all: $139k

World#30,567 / 412k
🇺🇦Country#2,146 / 14.3k
Per project
$601

$996 in the last 6 months

World#165,984 / 412k
🇺🇦Country#7,150 / 14.3k
Projects, last 6 months
6

Across 7 contracts

57% fixed43% hourly
World#34,405 / 412k
🇺🇦Country#1,481 / 14.3k
Projects in all
205

Across 216 contracts

74% fixed26% hourly
World#9,574 / 412k
🇺🇦Country#434 / 14.3k

Earnings, last 30 days

$139k+$688 earned in the last 30 daysBilled in all, before Upwork's fee · drag across the chart to see what was earned in any stretch
$138.0k$138.5k$139.0kOct 8Oct 23Nov 7

Skill rankings: Top 6% in Ukrainian to English Translation

Ranked by MRR among everyone on Upwork with the skill.

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  2. #18Ukrainian291 freelancers · 🇺🇦 #15Top 6%
  3. #25Official Documents Translation291 freelancers · 🇺🇦 #1Top 9%
  4. #30Russian to English Translation448 freelancers · 🇺🇦 #8Top 7%
  5. #35English to Russian Translation575 freelancers · 🇺🇦 #11Top 6%
  6. #52Russian720 freelancers · 🇺🇦 #14Top 7%
  7. #84Language Interpretation1,049 freelancers · 🇺🇦 #2Top 8%
  8. #109Zoom Video Conferencing725 freelancers · 🇺🇦 #3Top 15%