Qassim Ahmed Yakubu
@qassimahmedyakubu
I evaluate and improve multilingual AI data, LLM responses, and localization quality.
NigeriaWhat I'm looking for
I support AI development for Translated, RWS, Appen, Blend, and Big Language Solutions through evaluation, multilingual data work, and linguistic quality review.
At Translated, I evaluate AI-generated responses for NVIDIA RLHF and supervised fine-tuning projects, assessing instruction following, factual accuracy, relevance, safety, and linguistic quality.
I contribute multilingual annotation, validation, image evaluation, and dataset quality review for RWS projects, while reviewing Mastercard medical localization work in English, Hausa, and Yoruba at Big Language Solutions.
As a licensed pharmacist, I bring healthcare domain knowledge and quality assurance experience to medical AI and localization projects. I also translate and interpret across Hausa, Fulah, English, Nigerian Pidgin, and Yoruba.
Experience
Work history, roles, and key accomplishments
AI Evaluator
Translated
Sep 2024 - Present (2 years)
Evaluate AI-generated responses for NVIDIA RLHF and SFT projects to improve large language model performance. Assess outputs for instruction following, factual accuracy, relevance, safety, and linguistic quality.
AI Data Contributor
RWS
Aug 2024 - Present (2 years 1 month)
Contribute to multilingual AI projects including Diamond, Halo, Ruby, and Meta. Evaluate AI-generated images for prompt alignment, visual quality, and guideline compliance, and perform multilingual annotation and quality review.
Verified Translator
Mars Translation
Jan 2024 - Present (2 years 8 months)
Translate healthcare, business, and general content between English, Fulah, and Nigerian Pidgin English. Deliver culturally accurate translations while maintaining terminology consistency and client quality standards.
Search Engine Evaluator | Hausa Transcriber
Appen
Nov 2019 - Present (6 years 10 months)
Evaluated search results for relevance and user intent. Produced Hausa speech datasets through transcription and validation.
Hospital Pharmacist | Supply Chain Coordinator
NNPC Medical Services Limited
Apr 2019 - Present (7 years 5 months)
Manage procurement, inventory, and medication distribution. Lead inventory audits, documentation, and quality assurance activities.
Volunteer Interpreter
Tarjimly
Jan 2019 - Present (7 years 8 months)
Provide English–Hausa interpretation for humanitarian and healthcare services.
Localization Expert | Linguistic QA Reviewer
Blend
Mar 2018 - Present (8 years 6 months)
Localized multilingual healthcare and digital content. Conducted editing, proofreading, and linguistic QA.
Sentence Generator & Linguistic Reviewer
Naija Voices
Nov 2023 - Dec 2023 (1 month)
Generated Hausa datasets supporting AI language model training. Reviewed and translated multilingual NLP datasets.
Education
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University of Bradford
Master of Pharmacy, Pharmacy
Master of Pharmacy degree from the University of Bradford.
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