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Abhinav Kini

@abhinavkini

Human Data Lead specializing in large-scale workforce operations, AI training pipelines, and quality at scale.

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What I'm looking for

I’m looking to lead AI operations and workforce annotation programs—building training pipelines, setting reviewer guidelines, and driving measurable quality across multilingual, distributed teams while partnering with product and engineering.

I’m an AI operations professional who specializes in large-scale workforce operations, data annotation program management, and AI training pipeline delivery. I currently serve as a Human Data Lead, promoting into annotation leadership while managing 7 Human Data Managers across a 250+ expert pipeline—translating priorities into daily guidance and reporting performance metrics to senior leadership.

Previously, I owned end-to-end reviewer lifecycle operations for a 500+ reviewer workforce across 30+ languages, leading post-completion workflow management, QC coverage coordination, and guideline improvements to reduce contradictory reviews. I’ve also contributed to multimodal evaluation work as an AI Tutor (progressing from L1 to L3) and built safety datasets by creating SFT and RLHF data for toxic/harmful content—backed by a background in journalism and digital content.

Experience

Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

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Human Data Manager

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Dec 2025 - May 2026 (5 months)

Owned reviewer lifecycle operations across a 500+ reviewer workforce spanning 30+ languages on a 1,200+ person transcription project, including raise evaluations, demotion processes, promotion recommendations, and language coverage gap analysis. Managed post-completion workflow execution via Slack QC coordination, reviewer movement, escalation of low-quality/offboarded tasks, and guideline improve

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AI Tutor (xAI)

Sep 2024 - Sep 2025 (1 year)

Contributed to multimodal and evaluation projects (Grok Analyze and Grok Imagine), progressing from L1 to L3 while consistently earning top QA scores. Supported onboarding for new tutors and pods through 1:1 training, kickoff calls, and QA feedback.

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Senior Data Quality Specialist (Safety)

Mar 2024 - Sep 2024 (6 months)

Worked on 19 safety projects generating SFT and RLHF data by labeling, ranking, and editing model responses containing toxic or harmful elements to align with safety guidelines and style guides. Created 1,000+ prompts to evaluate behavioral variance and support the development of strict and contextual safety modes.

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Senior Data Quality Specialist

Sep 2023 - Mar 2024 (6 months)

Created high-quality writing samples to train advanced language models using diverse, complex prompts and creative rewrites to improve prose quality, conversational ability, and handling of varied formats, tones, and multi-step reasoning tasks. Evaluated model performance by comparing and ranking responses from different language models.

Education

Degrees, certifications, and relevant coursework

Université de Montréal logoUM

Université de Montréal

Verified Certificate, Bias and Discrimination in AI

Completed an edX Verified Certificate course on Bias and Discrimination in AI.

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Humber College

PGCert, Professional Writing and Communications

2019 - 2020

Completed a PGCert in Professional Writing and Communications.

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Loyola University Chicago

Bachelor of Arts, Journalism

2012 - 2016

Earned a Bachelor of Arts in Journalism with an English minor.

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