Iria Maquieira

Iria Maquieira is a translator in her thirties from A Coruña, in Galicia. She started out handling support in a telecoms call center, began a side blog grading the names of Spanish startups, and gradually turned freelance localization into full-time work between English and Spanish.

She translates for readers across Spain and Latin America at once, which makes her allergic to regionalisms that quietly exclude half the audience, and careful about accents and the ñ where they meet a domain name. Cold-water surfing on the Atlantic coast and long pulpo-and-albariño Sundays keep her honest about deadlines.

For Namefi she localizes articles on domains and naming into Spanish — weighing .es, .mx and .ar, and choosing terms that read naturally from Madrid to Mexico City.