With a career in translation for over 16 years, Volodymyr Kukharenko advanced from a freelancer to CEO of a translation agency and founder of a software company. He was translating and self-training as a freelancer, editing and teaching as an editor and managing the pipeline as a project manager. In 2010 he cofounded Technolex Translation Studio which is still one of leading companies in the Ukrainian market. Having the deep knowledge of the processes in translation companies and the translation industry as a whole, in 2014 he founded Protemos, a software startup to create the new tools for the translation industry which he was missing on his previous positions.