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

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.
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.

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