I am a multilingual linguistic specialist with over 12 years of hands-on experience in NLP and data annotation, transcription, translation, localization, subtitling, and AI evaluation. I also lead cross-functional teams and manage projects across remote settings, bringing 5+ years of experience in project and team management. I am native in German and Turkish, fluent in English, and I specialize in LLM alignment and frontier AI evaluation, including human preference testing, RLHF and prompt-based evaluations, MT audit and post-editing, MT evaluation, WPO and search relevance, and multilingual audio quality checks.

Erden Kalabalik

I am a multilingual linguistic specialist with over 12 years of hands-on experience in NLP and data annotation, transcription, translation, localization, subtitling, and AI evaluation. I also lead cross-functional teams and manage projects across remote settings, bringing 5+ years of experience in project and team management. I am native in German and Turkish, fluent in English, and I specialize in LLM alignment and frontier AI evaluation, including human preference testing, RLHF and prompt-based evaluations, MT audit and post-editing, MT evaluation, WPO and search relevance, and multilingual audio quality checks.

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I am a multilingual linguistic specialist with over 12 years of hands-on experience in NLP and data annotation, transcription, translation, localization, subtitling, and AI evaluation.

I also lead cross-functional teams and manage projects across remote settings, bringing 5+ years of experience in project and team management. I am native in German and Turkish, fluent in English, and I specialize in LLM alignment and frontier AI evaluation, including human preference testing, RLHF and prompt-based evaluations, MT audit and post-editing, MT evaluation, WPO and search relevance, and multilingual audio quality checks.

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Language

German
Fluent
Turkish
Fluent
English
Advanced
Japanese
Fluent
Hindi
Fluent

Work Experience

Freelance Linguist & Data Specialist at Freelance - Remote
January 1, 2014 - November 5, 2025
Provided transcription, annotation, translation, and evaluation for 100+ multilingual projects. Specialized in speech recognition, sentiment analysis, entity recognition, and subtitling, with QA and feedback to improve annotation guidelines and labeling consistency across datasets.
Project Manager / Team Lead at Various Remote Projects
January 1, 2019 - November 5, 2025
Led cross-functional teams of up to 30+ annotators, translators, and evaluators; responsible for planning, coordination, task assignment, deadline tracking, onboarding, training, and quality assurance to deliver large-scale NLP/localization projects on tight timelines.

Education

Bachelor’s Degree in Linguistics at Trakya University
January 11, 2030 - November 5, 2025
Bachelor’s Degree in Education at Ataturk University
January 11, 2030 - November 5, 2025

Qualifications

Transcrition
March 25, 2025 - March 25, 2025

Industry Experience

Healthcare, Education, Professional Services, Media & Entertainment, Software & Internet