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Karin Albiez-Language Expert – Python Developer – AI Engineer

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Leonberg, Germany

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Experience

Apr 2026 - Jun 2026

AI Benchmark Engineer | Native language specialist German

Lilt

Position Summary
AI Benchmark Engineer | Native language specialist German at Lilt
Industries
Information Technology
Business Areas
Information Technology
Product Development
Quality Assurance
Research and Development
  • Task Engineering: Evaluating Coding Agents.
  • Asset Creation: Building realistic task environments using datasets and files in German. Crucially, these assets must remain in the target language to genuinely measure multilingual handling.
  • Prompting & Translation: finding failure points where AI does not work, in German.
  • Implementation & Verification: Supporting the development of robust solutions (reference implementations) and write highly reliable, deterministic verifier scripts (using rubric-based judging only when strictly necessary).
  • Calibration & Execution: Analyze execution logs and calibrate task difficulty (Easy to Very Hard) using standard Terminal-Bench run configurations against various model tiers (Haiku, Opus).
  • Quality Assurance: Participation in a rigorous, 4-layer human quality control process (creation, human review, calibration review, and audit) alongside automated LLM-based checks to ensure fairness, grammatical accuracy, and benchmark integrity.
  • Linguistic Review: Reviewing AI benchmark tasks across Hindi, Arabic, Japanese, Chinese, Czech and Turkish.
Jan 2026 - Apr 2026

AI Software Engineering Vocational Training

Digitale Leute

Position Summary
AI Software Engineering Vocational Training at Digitale Leute
Industries
Education
Healthcare
Information Technology
Business Areas
Information Technology
Product Development
Quality Assurance
  • LLM Engineering: Prompt Engineering, Advanced Prompting, LLM Evaluation & Monitoring
  • Agentic AI: Multi-Agent Systems, AI Workflow Orchestration, Tool Integration
  • Production Standards: Clean Code, CI/CD, Testing, Responsible AI, Security & Compliance
  • Built EaselyWell — AI-powered health & nutrition app using LLMs and a structured data backend, deployed as working MVP
Nov 2024 - Nov 2025

Backend Software Developer

insightfabrix

Position Summary
Backend Software Developer at insightfabrix
Industries
Information Technology
Manufacturing
Business Areas
Information Technology
Product Development
Research and Development

Development of a database installer app with Python Django that allows for an automated and customized installation of databases, their relations and functions. It contains a main Django model and three inline models for apps, users and git repositories from which SQL files are executed. The databases are designed for customers of die casting machines. Experimentation with Large Language Models (GPT, Gemini) and agents to address upcoming customer needs.

#Python #Django #SQL

Oct 2021 - Oct 2024

Python developer

Tata Consultancy Services

Position Summary
Python developer at Tata Consultancy Services
Industries
Banking and Finance
Pharmaceutical
Business Areas
Information Technology
Product Development

Python backend development in AWS setup

Backend development of a business user app for the client Bayer for registering Complaint, Deviation, Doc Exchange and Change Management processes among different user roles and flows The tech stack used is AWS Lambda, AWS RDS Database, API Gateway and S3 buckets and SES email service From September 2023:

Python Full Stack development for Commerzbank

Developing an internal website with Flask and Javascript for registering new partners/contacts, setting up new partner profiles and sharing private/public keys

Mar 2018 - Present
Munich, Germany

Senior Engineer

Harman for Samsung

Position Summary
Senior Engineer at Harman for Samsung
Industries
Information Technology
Business Areas
Information Technology
Product Development
Research and Development

Working in the German development team for Samsung’s Voice Assistant Bixby:

Within the Open Questions and Answers (Open Q&A) team:

Data processing tasks such as designing adequate MySQL and MongoDB databases for vocabs, development and maintenance of the German Open Q&A capsule. #MySQL, #MongoDB, #JSON

Within the Natural Language Generation (NLG) team:

Writing Python code for automatically generating German inflections. #Python #Pandas

Within the Natural Language Understanding (NLU) team:

Development of new Bixby goals, features and structures mainly for Weather and Phone app and defect handling. #Machine Learning #Training data

Jan 2015 - Dec 2015
Barcelona, Spain

German Team Lead and project manager for AppleCare and iTunes projects and German Senior Translator

Moravia

Position Summary
German Team Lead and project manager for AppleCare and iTunes projects and German Senior Translator at Moravia
Industries
Education
Information Technology
Business Areas
Project Management

Responsible for the AppleCare (Service, Support) and Shared Services German divisions of the German Apple account, team leader of a German translation team consisting of 5 other translators, and participation in an iTunes project (review of translations) with the team of German translators. German contributor in the localization of the learning platform IXL, in the role of translator and reviewer.

German translator responsible for passing the Google AdWords test for Moravia and working for Google (Google Scholar, Google Docs).

Jan 2014 - Mar 2018
San Jose, United States

Senior German localization professional

e2f

Position Summary
Senior German localization professional at e2f
Industries
Information Technology
Business Areas
Information Technology
Quality Assurance

Translation and review of IT texts, platforms and websites for Trello, Insightly, SmartRecruiters, Asana, iFit, GetYourGuide, Google, patent texts, business communication, and technical texts.

German Translator and Reviewer for different Google products such as Google Maps, Nexus and Android websites.

German Quality Manager for GetYourGuide projects using the machine translation tool Lilt.

German Language Lead for the work tracking platform Asana, through e2f, responsible for translation and review.

Translation tools: Transifex, Lilt.

Jan 2013 - Dec 2014
Barcelona, Spain

Senior German Translator

German Translation Unit, German Language Service Provider

Position Summary
Senior German Translator at German Translation Unit, German Language Service Provider
Industries
Automotive
Manufacturing

Translation of technical texts (mechanical and electrical engineering) from English into German.

Translation tool: MemoQ

Clients: Caterpillar, General Motors, ABB, SKF, Swisslog, Faro, Varian, Olympus, Fisher & Paykel etc.

Jan 2012 - Dec 2014
Barcelona, Spain

German Language Lead

Digi-Key

Position Summary
German Language Lead at Digi-Key
Industries
Manufacturing
Business Areas
Marketing
Quality Assurance

through LocalizationGuy (Aki Ito)

Editing of texts on electronic components in the language combination English > German (Product Highlights, marketing texts for suppliers, press releases, etc.). Responsible for the quality of translation, for the review of translations delivered by vendors, and for the translation of short texts. Developing/maintaining glossary, style guide and translation memory, as well as answering questions from vendors. Manager of a German team from the company Maravision S.L. and joint editing of machine translation-generated texts.

Jan 2010 - Dec 2011
Barcelona, Spain

Translation, Marketing and Recruitment Specialist

Dr. Frühbeck Abogados

Position Summary
Translation, Marketing and Recruitment Specialist at Dr. Frühbeck Abogados
Industries
Professional Services
Business Areas
Human Resources
Legal
Marketing

Translation of different kinds of legal texts (contracts, debt acknowledgements, minutes, counterclaims) as well as communication with clients in the language combination German/Spanish (both directions), and from Spanish into English and French.

Recruitment specialist: Writing job advertisements for the law firm in Spanish and German, publishing the offers through the appropriate media channels, preselection of candidates, management of recruitment processes.

Marketing: Writing and publishing marketing ads for the law firm in different media (for example in the magazine Top Girona and in the directory for companies in the service sector, ESADE), marketing for Dr. Frühbeck at all German law universities.

Jan 2005 - Dec 2006
Stuttgart, Germany

English, Spanish and French language teacher

Position Summary
English, Spanish and French language teacher
Industries
Education

English, Spanish and French language teacher at a Grammar School in Stuttgart, as a practical part of my university education in Spanish, English and French Linguistics

Industry Experience

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Experienced in Information Technology, Manufacturing, Education, Banking and Finance, Pharmaceutical, and Automotive.

Information Technology
Manufacturing
Education
Banking and Finance
Pharmaceutical
Automotive
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Experienced in Information Technology, Product Development, Research and Development, Quality Assurance, Marketing, and Human Resources.

Information Technology
Product Development
Research and Development
Quality Assurance
Marketing
Human Resources
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Summary

AI Engineer and Python Developer with 7+ years of production experience, specializing in LLM-based applications, NLP systems and agentic AI. I build intelligent, production-ready systems that solve real problems: from enterprise backends at Samsung, Bayer and Commerzbank to my own AI-powered health app EaselyWell. My unique background combines technical expertise with academic depth in linguistics, making me especially strong in NLP, multilingual AI systems and human-centred product development. Currently open to freelance AI Engineering projects at the intersection of LLMs, language and product.

Skills

  • Programming: Python
  • Data Science: Numpy, Pandas, Matplotlib, Seaborn, Machine Learning With Scikit-Learn For Linear And Logistic Regressions, K Nearest Neighbors, Decision Trees, Support Vector Machines And NaïVe Bayes, Deep Learning, Keras, Tensorflow, Pytorch
  • Data Engineering: Data Warehouses With Aws Redshift, Data Lakes With Aws Emr, Data Pipelines With Airflow, Spark
  • Natural Language Processing: Methods Such As Part Of Speech Tagging And Named Entity Recognition With Spacy, Sentiment Analysis With Nltk Vader, Text-Preprocessing, Text Classification And Topic Modelling With Scikitlearn, Llm Concepts And Prompt Design, Application Of Nlu/Nlg Methods In Production Systems (Samsung Bixby)
  • Generative Ai: Langchain, Gpt, Gemini, Agentic Ai
  • Web Development: Html, Css, Flask, Django
  • Databases: Postgres And Mysql

Languages

German
Native
Spanish
Advanced
French
Advanced
Latin
Advanced
English
Intermediate

Education

Oct 2006 - Jun 2009

Heidelberg University

Master in Conference Interpreting · Conference Interpreting · Heidelberg, Germany

Oct 2005 - Jun 2006

Grammar School in Stuttgart

Stuttgart, Germany

Oct 2003 - Jun 2004

Paul Valéry University

Montpellier, France

...and 3 more

Certifications & licenses

Graecum

Großes Latinum

Statistics

Experience

Total positions 11
Experience in Information Technology 12.5 y
Avg length 2 y 5 m
Longest experience 8 y 5 m

Global Experience

Countries worked in 3 (Spain, Germany, United States)
Primary country Spain

Expertise

Recent roles AI Benchmark Engineer | Native language specialist German, AI Software Engineering Vocational Training, Backend Software Developer
Main industries Information Technology, Manufacturing, Education
Main business areas Information Technology, Product Development, Research and Development

Qualifications

Highest degree Master
Certifications earned 2

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Karin is based in Leonberg, Germany.

Karin speaks the following languages: German (Native), Spanish (Advanced), French (Advanced), Latin (Advanced), English (Intermediate).

Karin has at least 19 years of experience. During this time, Karin has worked in at least 11 different roles and for 10 different companies. The average length of individual experience is 2 years and 8 months. Note that Karin may not have shared all experience and actually has more experience.

Based on recent experience, Karin would be well-suited for roles such as: AI Benchmark Engineer | Native language specialist German, AI Software Engineering Vocational Training, Backend Software Developer.

Karin's most recent position is AI Benchmark Engineer | Native language specialist German at Lilt.

In recent years, Karin has worked for Lilt, Digitale Leute, insightfabrix, Tata Consultancy Services, and Harman for Samsung.

Karin is most experienced in industries like Information Technology, Manufacturing, and Education. Karin also has some experience in Banking and Finance, Pharmaceutical, and Automotive.

Karin is most experienced in business areas like Information Technology, Product Development, and Research and Development. Karin also has some experience in Quality Assurance, Marketing, and Human Resources.

Karin has recently worked in industries like Information Technology, Banking and Finance, and Pharmaceutical.

Karin has recently worked in business areas like Information Technology, Product Development, and Research and Development.

Karin holds a Master in Conference Interpreting from Heidelberg University and a Master in Spanish, French and English Linguistics and Literature from Ruprecht-Karls University.

Karin has 2 certificates. These include: Graecum and Großes Latinum.

Karin is immediately available full-time for suitable projects.

Karin's rate depends on the specific project requirements. Please use the Meet button on the profile to schedule a meeting and discuss the details.

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