I'm Rachel, a computational linguist. I specialize in AI conversation design, LLMs, and NLP processing.

Rachel Marina Randazzo

I'm Rachel, a computational linguist. I specialize in AI conversation design, LLMs, and NLP processing.

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I’m Rachel, a computational linguist. I specialize in AI conversation design, LLMs, and NLP processing.

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Language

Spanish; Castilian
Advanced
Italian
Advanced
Japanese
Beginner
Russian
Beginner

Work Experience

Linguistic Engineer (LLM Ops) at TEK Systems (for Meta)
September 1, 2024 - Present
Developed end-to-end AI agents to handle various tasks; Tweaked pretrained LLMs with fine-tuning, dataset patching, and prompting for English and multilingual voice assistants; Implemented data preprocessing and augmentation pipelines for fine-tuning and performance benchmarking; Deployed fully automated evaluation & regulation system ensuring factuality and contextual accuracy of model outputs.
Data Annotation & Analysis at DeepL
June 1, 2023 - July 1, 2025
Rated and ranked model outputs to improve translation quality and chatbot response accuracy; Annotated and corrected multilingual data for training translation and grammar correction LLMs; Performed data integrity and error analysis using Excel and Python for data QA pipelines; Provided insights into linguistic phenomena influencing cross-lingual translation models.
Conversational AI & NLP Engineer at GetIt AI
February 1, 2024 - July 1, 2024
Built end-to-end AI agent stacks using API-based LLMs; Designed brand-specific RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation) pipelines using web scraping and encoder models for chatbot deployment; Created multi-turn conversation architectures and intent-detection models with Python and Hugging Face Transformers; Tested and optimized LLM-driven sales and customer engagement agents for response coherence and brand alignment.
Research Assistant (Phonetics & NLP) at UC Berkeley - Linguistics
August 1, 2023 - December 1, 2023
Built a Python-based sound classification model to detect and segment phonetic features in Italian dialects; Parsed and annotated over 100 audio samples using Praat, then modeled acoustic correlates using machine learning; Contributed data-driven research integrating linguistic analysis with computational modeling.

Education

Bachelor of Arts in Linguistics; Minor in Computer Science at University of California, Berkeley
August 1, 2022 - December 1, 2023

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Industry Experience

Software & Internet, Computers & Electronics, Education, Media & Entertainment, Professional Services