Profile
Hello, I’m Azamat, a software engineer with extensive experience across a broad spectrum of development areas. My work ranges from building foundational web services to designing complex domain-specific systems, including distributed computing, cloud infrastructure, artificial intelligence, and networking.
My primary focus is Software Engineering, Artificial Intelligence, DevOps, and Product Engineering. I enjoy deeply exploring system architecture, scalable infrastructure, and building products that are reliable, maintainable, and aligned with real user and business needs. My background in algorithms, artificial intelligence, and system design allows me to approach problems with both technical depth and a strong product-oriented mindset.
This diverse expertise enables me to understand what drives a product’s success and how to continuously improve it. I particularly enjoy solving complex domain-specific challenges and building reusable, well-structured, and efficient systems that are easy to understand, scale, and maintain.
Work Experience
Built and led the engineering team, establishing development workflows and mentoring junior engineers. Reimplemented the initial PHP MVP in Python, redesigning the system architecture following modern best practices. Delivered a production-ready platform within three months focused on robustness, scalability, and maintainability.
Spanish quantum computing software company headquartered in San Sebastián, with offices in Paris, Munich, London, Toronto, and Sherbrooke. Applies quantum and quantum-inspired algorithms to energy, logistics, manufacturing, mobility, life sciences, finance, cybersecurity, chemistry, materials science, and aerospace.
Real-time face and document verification with results in 10–18 seconds.
Developed a tool for apartment price estimation and identification of similar apartments in Kazakhstan. Model performance: ~26% error, R² ≈ 0.96, MAPE ≈ 0.09, RMSQLog1p ≈ 0.13.
Organized and delivered an Artificial Intelligence course in Kazakhstan under the Tech Orda grant program. Taught four groups through the full curriculum.
Lecturer and practitioner for courses in Computer Vision, Blockchain, and DevOps.
Outsourcing company with a dedicated professional team. Outsourced DevOps engineer — deployed AFM products and provided ongoing support.
Outsourcing company specializing in software engineering across backend, frontend, mobile, and product development. Led the DevOps department and contributed to major infrastructure successes.
Outsourcing company supporting IT solutions for government organizations. Out-staffed engineer-consultant for Pentaho at Kazatomprom.
Teaching assistant for the Deep Learning course.
Project lead for Handwriting Text Recognition (HTR) in Kazakh — Character Error Rate (CER) 15%.
Online service for movies and celebrity content — built from scratch.
Selected Projects
Singularity Machine Learning — Classification
Software EngineerAn IBM Qiskit Function that enables solving real-world ML problems on quantum hardware without requiring quantum expertise.
Singularity Machine Learning
Software EngineerSolves real-world ML problems on quantum hardware without requiring quantum expertise.
Singularity AI Benchmarking
Software EngineerEvaluates the performance of Singularity Machine Learning and Deep Learning systems.
MC Workshops
Software EngineerOne-day competitive team workshops: (1) drug–target interaction prediction, (2) ADMET evaluation, (3) image compression.
AmigoID
DevOps EngineerReal-time face and document verification with results in 10–18 seconds.
DDBox
Software EngineerA framework that streamlines engineering work in the field of Drug Discovery.
EduMarket
Backend & DevOpsEducation-sector platform that simplifies learning and provides students with an additional source of income.
Freedom Life
DevOps Engineer · AuditorKazakh life-insurance company (since 2014, Freedom brand 2018), part of Freedom Holding Corp. (Nasdaq).
NDFS
DevOps EngineerEnd-to-end infrastructure design and implementation.
BI Media Archive
Backend · ML EngineerImage synthesis and face-based image extraction across a vast image archive.
Handwriting Text Recognition
DL Engineer · Data EngineerExtracts handwritten text from A4 paper and translates it into digital text. CER 15% in Kazakh.
Face Recognition
DL Engineer · Data EngineerHigh-accuracy face verification, addressing capacity challenges with Transformers.
HurryApp
Software & DevOpsRestaurant-operations platform: reservations, ordering, payments, analytics.
FollowFox
DevOps · System DesignerStable-Diffusion platform generating AI images in user-specified styles.
Iqanat
DevOps · Backend · System DesignPlatform hosting the Iqanat Olympiad.
Akhter Bot
DevOps · BackendInternal HR / process-streamlining platform for Akhter Engineering.
Introdex
Backend DeveloperTool for managing LinkedIn contacts and calculating relationship warmth.
Muetify
Software EngineerMobile application for collaborative music listening.
Eisentask
Software EngineerTask management based on the Eisenhower matrix, with sharing & group tasks.
OpenEDX
Backend DeveloperLMS platform for educators and students — payment integration, platform configuration, localization, and bug fixing.
pixx.tv
Software EngineerPlatform for renting movies and exploring celebrity biographies.
Infomatrix ASIA 2020
Software EngineerAndroid app for Infomatrix ASIA 2020 Olympiad participants to streamline event activities.
Client Kubernetes platforms
DevOps EngineerInfrastructure delivery and operations for multiple products: Classlytics, Akhter School, Magnum, Richmate, Arizona, Kipros, AFM, Remoteam, and related environments — GitLab CI, registries, Helm, PostgreSQL, Minio, monitoring, and gateways.
Achievements
Highest GPA at SDU — 3.98
Graduated from Suleyman Demirel University with the highest GPA in the program.
Singularity Machine Learning — Classification → IBM
Primary contributor delivering SML to IBM as a Qiskit Function.
Infrastructure for major organizations
Designed and implemented cost-effective infrastructures from the ground up for NDFS, Freedom Life, AmigoID, and related client platforms.
Kazakh handwriting text recognition
AI system converting handwritten A4 text to digital text — CER 15%.
MoonAI — production & engineering culture
Brought the startup to production and established engineering workflows and team practices.
AI course (Tech Orda)
Successfully led the AI course for four groups in Kazakhstan under BigDreamLab.
Infomatrix 2018 — 2nd place
Software Engineering track, Infomatrix 2018 International Olympiad (SDU).
Infomatrix 2022
Developed an Android application for Infomatrix 2022 participants.
MC workshops — 2nd & 3rd place
Placed in Multiverse Computing workshop competitions twice.
LeetCode — 450+ problems
Strong algorithms and data-structures practice.
Kubernetes in 2–3 days
Learned Kubernetes quickly and began deploying applications to production.