krm.fyi

I'm Kieran Maynard.

You can reach me at kieranmaynard[at]gmail[dot]com.

about me

I am a linguist turned tech content policy analyst and operations manager with a passion for developing data-driven, scalable solutions for thorny content problems.

• 9+ years working on content policy development and operations at Google
• 5+ years experience writing complex SQL queries on billions of rows to drive analysis and insights
• Experience coding in JavaScript, TypeScript & Python to automate workflows and manipulate data at scale (e.g., node.js, Chrome extensions)
• Fluent in Mandarin Chinese & Japanese, and conversant in Korean and Cantonese
• BA in Linguistics
• Father of two

find me online

• LinkedIn: Kieran Maynard
• GitHub: github.com/krmaynard/

publications & awards

• University of Guam - 'Lost Chapters in The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle: A Translation and Commentary'
• Grand prize, Japanese original speech competition

literary translations

• Murakami Haruki - Lost Chapters in The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle (Japanese)
• Kim Un-Su "Terribly Easy Writing Lessons" (digest version, Korean)
• Zhang Jiajia 张嘉佳 "The Old Love Letter" (Chinese)

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research

• 沈从文的《丈夫》与戴乃迭的英译 (2013, Fudan University)
• 张爱玲《倾城之恋》里的时间观 (2012, Fudan)
• Cross-media Study of Mo Yan's Red Sorghum in Film & Translation (2012, University of Georgia)
• Animals in Akutagawa Ryūnosuke's “Rashōmon”「羅生門」の動物 (2012, UGA)
• Japan's Legend of the White Snake: Comparative analysis of "Bainiangzi" and "Jasei no In"(2011)
• Toward a Japanese “linguistics of speech”: Collocation in the BCCWJ (2010)
• Analysis of Albert-Ernest Carrier-Belleuse's "The Drunkenness of Bacchus" (2009)

same name but different

Recently, news articles have appeared about other people named "Kieran Maynard" in England. I've never lived in England, so suffice to say, he is not me, and I am not he, and never the twain shall meet.