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ELISA FESTI

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Trento, Trentino-South Tyrol, Italy

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Starting at EUR30/hour ~USD34.2/hour

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  • Translated
    Translated NLP Data Quality Specialist & Final QA Reviewer
    Translated
    Jan 2026 - Current (7 months)
    • Processed and quality-reviewed 200,000+ words across medical-domain Italian audio transcription, annotation, and HITL QA pipelines; promoted to Final Reviewer as the last human checkpoint before enterprise client delivery • Enforced medical terminology standards and annotation taxonomies; implemented annotator feedback systems that reduced error rates and improved ground truth label consistency
  • Abaka AI
    Multimodal AI Evaluation & Annotation Specialist
    Abaka AI
    Oct 2025 - Current (10 months)
    • Contributed to LLM and multimodal model alignment pipelines across audio, image, and video modalities, applying annotation taxonomies to ensure ground truth dataset quality and reduce inter-annotator variability • Evaluated model outputs for instruction-following accuracy, hallucination detection, and guideline compliance within iterative HITL feedback loops supporting model calibration
  • Argos Multilingual
    Final Verification Specialist - Technical & Multilingual QA
    Argos Multilingual
    Mar 2025 - Sep 2025 (7 months)
    • Executed final-stage QA of highly technical electronics-domain translations across Asian and European language pairs using Xbench and Trados Enterprise, enforcing zero-defect delivery standards before enterprise client handoff • Resolved complex technical and linguistic inconsistencies across high-complexity batches, maintaining terminology precision and structural consistency across all verified outputs
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    Language Specialist & LLM Evaluation Lead
    DataForce AI
    Jan 2024 - Sep 2025 (1 year 9 months)
    • Evaluated 2,000 LLM-generated Italian lexical chains across four-, five-, and six-word structures for semantic coherence and idiomatic accuracy – identifying systematic model output failures and improving Al semantic alignment for multilingual LLM localization • Promoted to Lead QA Transcriber; designed inter-annotator agreement (IAA) auditing workflows improving ground truth label reliability across multilingual audio Al training datasets • Annotated Italian conversational datasets using sentiment classification frameworks for NLP model training, resolving ambiguous cases to improve label consistency
  • freelance
    Freelance AI Localization Specialist - Translation, MTPE & Prompt Engineering
    freelance
    Oct 2022 - Current (3 years 10 months)
    • Designed and localized Italian LLM prompts for SFT workflows in JSON format across reasoning, summarization, and classification tasks; conducted side-by-side (SBS) evaluation of model outputs to select higher-quality responses based on accuracy, relevance, and instruction-following criteria; promoted to Reviewer based on annotation quality • Delivered Italian-English translation, localization, and MTPE across medical, marketing, and telecoms domains; achieved 100% Job Success Score on Upwork across all completed contracts
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    Bachelor's Degree in Foreign Languages, Linguistics and Literature (English & German)
    Alma Mater Studiorum, University of Bologna
    Jan 2019 - Jan 2022 (3 years 1 month)
    GPA: 3.8/4.0