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jul 2026 - nowpragma.com.kz ↗pragma · founder
- ai automation studio: ai infrastructure, agent systems, data pipelines and
document parsers
- 40+ clients on monthly retainers
- deployments run on open models on client-controlled infrastructure
pragma edu
- the education arm, teaching the same stack to professionals
- runs on an lms built in-house rather than on a course platform
- 100+ students
nfactorial · mentor, higgsfield growth / llm engineering / gen ai / solo tracks
- taught across four tracks: higgsfield growth, generative ai, llm engineering
and solo founder
- curriculum covered growth tactics, unit metrics and roi, workflow automation
and generation pipelines
- 400+ engineers and founders mentored
- mentee companies reached 80,000+ users and $520,000 raised
- several growth track graduates were hired by higgsfield
own-baseline validation for single-cell potency scores · independent
- built an own-baseline control that asks whether a published potency score
beats the statistic it is computed from, so a score that only restates
sequencing depth fails it
- trained per-cell fate classifiers in python, pandas and scikit-learn, on
lineage-traced lung and ovarian cancer data, reaching balanced auroc 0.781
and 0.748 within each system
- across systems the learned weights share no signal, r = -0.011, so no single
potency signature transfers between tissues
- calibrated on 39,505 cells across twelve microscopy-staged timepoints, with
ground truth locked before processing
- audited thirteen published scores: seven were testable, two failed their own
baseline
- shipped an open-source cli under mit. preprint in preparation for arxiv, q-bio.qm
oylab · co-founder & strategic advisor
- building the largest youth startup ecosystem in central asia
- 7-week incubator combining startup mentorship with college admissions guidance
- mentor pool drawn from stanford, the ivy league, duke, cambridge, hku,
y combinator companies and kpmg
- 5,800+ total participants
before
jun 2026 - sep 2026astana hub · software engineer
- built the admissions platform for qazaq ai research university, 800
applications in its first month
- wrote the screening pipeline underneath it: parsing candidate profiles,
deduplicating entries, scoring applications against admission criteria and
ranking them into a shortlist for the review team
q applications · growth
- built go-to-market strategy and the full user acquisition loop
- 300% user growth over a two-week engagement
stealth ai startup · founder
- collected operational insights from mentoring decision makers at nfactorial
- validated the value and deployed 14 ai systems to clients
- those findings became the basis for pragma
kuramoto · co-founder & cto
- internal rag assistant over a company’s document base, citing the exact file,
clause and version behind every answer
- three domain agents (finance, legal, project management) over scoped
document sets
- 94% answer accuracy across 10,000+ live queries
- nps 8.7, under $0.01 per query
- acquired by a tech company, my first exit
vetra ai · founder
- full-stack personal ai assistant converting unstructured messages into
scheduled plans and tasks
- later pivoted into digital clones of its users, freeing them from constant
reachouts
- $200k in infrastructure credits from google, openai, microsoft and cloudflare
- an investment offer valuing the company at $8m
- named among the 100 startups of central asia by digital business magazine
- what the press wrote
bluebots (duke & yale student startup) · growth & innovation lead
- launched 3 university pilot programmes
- 40% growth in monthly active users
- partnerships with 2 investors and 4 academic researchers
ai-augmented solo founders · researcher
- ran 107 interviews with founders in 15 countries, coded and analysed the data
in stata, r and sql
- thematic analysis on the transcripts, braun and clarke with gioia-style
coding, inter-coder agreement kappa = 0.84
- found that ai now covers engineering, design, marketing and operations work
inside a one-person company, and fails on compliance and on anything that
runs through a relationship
- named the pattern the orchestrator model
- co-authored with aldamzhar kiikbayev, head of ai at astana hub, guided by
geoffrey moore, author of crossing the chasm, and professor poh kam wong of
nus business school, holder of an mit phd
upraze · founder
- free platform for entrance exam prep for the top high schools
- digitized 1,000+ authentic entrance exam questions and 200+ instructional videos
- built an automated testing system with instant feedback and performance analytics
- 800+ students and 40+ mentors on the platform
nazarbayev university · research assistant
- research on the safe use of ai in academic settings
- benchmarked several language models on academic tasks and measured the drift
patterns that separate ai-written text from student writing
- built a computer vision layer for remote exam proctoring
veritas ai · research scholar, data scientist
- end-to-end stock forecasting tool over s&p 500 historical data
- implemented golden cross and death cross strategies
- benchmarked multiple predictive models and optimized outputs into
portfolio-level insights
ratingkz · co-founder
- web platform for selecting educational centres, schools and universities,
combined with a targeted advertising channel for the institutions themselves
- admitted to jas ventures accelerator and the american space & makerspace
stem accelerator, finished 2/90
bcc invest · summer swe intern
- built an ai agent, an ai chat interface and analytics tooling for fraud prediction
- applied the machine learning methods developed at veritas ai
- deployed within a bank serving 3m+ users
nobel learning · course facilitator, swe intern
- taught computer science to 80 students across 7 countries
unicef · coordinator
- coordinated mentor and child pairings for in class academy
- 1,000+ children and 300+ mentors matched
- programme covered rubik’s cube instruction and english
borderless · ambassador
- interviewed top university admits from around the world
isol podcasts · founder
- interviewed top university admits and representatives from around the world
the wharton school · investment analyst, portfolio manager
- global competition where teams of four to six high schoolers build a
portfolio against a client brief and defend it, judged on the strategy and
the research rather than on returns
- picked securities for that portfolio as the school’s representative, at 15
sports
2013 - 2023taekwondo
- master of sport, kazakhstan
- captain of the national team
- 4x world championship medalist
- 6x asian tournament champion