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Abilkhair Madiyarov

@Abel

Data & AI Leader — LLM products in production (assessment platform, voice agents, RAG) · hiring AI engineers

Consultant and business analyst with 10 years of client-facing work for international organizations and large enterprises (World Bank, UNFPA, Ministry of Health, KPMG engagements, Kazakhmys) — and hands-on delivery of AI solutions in production since 2025: an LLM-based…

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About

competency-assessment platform, conversational AI agents for structured interviews, and a retrieval (RAG) service. Works at the intersection of business and AI: discovers high-impact use cases with stakeholders, translates needs into requirements, data specifications and model-evaluation metrics, runs workshops for non-technical audiences, and redesigns workflows around AI components. Evaluates initiatives by feasibility and business value — with explicit kill-criteria and ROI tracking. Storytelling in English and Russian: board decks, executive training, public writing on AI governance.

Career

Experience: 10 years

Experience

Data / AI Leader (AI product portfolio owner)

Almaly Assets Management

Asset-management holding, 20+ subsidiaries — internal AI products serving business units as customers

Oct 2025 — Present

Owns an internal AI portfolio and shipped an LLM assessment product that reached 100 structured interviews in two working days; also built weekly board dashboards.

• Own the AI product portfolio: discovery with business-unit leaders, roadmap and prioritization by value, feasibility and implementation complexity (incl. change management); every product carries value targets, stage-gated budgets, written kill-criteria and tracked ROI.

Independent Consultant / Founder

Data & Financial Advisory practice

Client-facing advisory across 8 industries; international organizations and major Kazakhstani companies

Nov 2019 — Oct 2025

Built a financial-statement automation engine reused by about 12 clients and delivered advisory projects with reported client EBITDA growth of 15% and liabilities reduction of 60%.

• Built an internal product out of repeated demand: a Python engine generating audit-ready financial statements from raw general ledgers — reused across ~12 client companies; owned scoping, pricing and delivery (6 years of hands-on pre-sales). • World Bank / Ministry of Health (via KPMG): requirements from ministry and insurer stakeholders; technical-audit framework for healthcare providers under the national insurance system; documentation adopted by the client.

Data Modeling Consultant

Republican Center of E-Healthcare

Jan 2019 — Oct 2019

Analyzed more than 13 million childbirth-care records; findings were adopted for national perinatal-care regionalization.

• Analyzed 13M+ records of childbirth-related care (Excel–Python–Power BI); evidence adopted for national perinatal-care regionalization; presented to ministry and UN stakeholders.

Consultant, Social Medical Insurance

Ministry of Health

Jun 2018 — Dec 2018

Estimated nationwide rehabilitation demand and budgeted to close access gaps for 700,000 people.

• Quantified nationwide demand for clinical rehabilitation (Python); sized the budget to close access gaps for 700,000 people.

Senior Manager, Project Management

University Medical Center (UMC)

Apr 2016 — Jun 2018

Led workforce and costing redesign based on time-and-motion research; cut workload by half for unlicensed personnel and funded a compensation increase.

• Led data-driven workforce and costing projects: field research (time-and-motion studies, 3,328h + 744h), stakeholder alignment across clinical and finance teams; the redesign cut workload by half for unlicensed personnel and funded a compensation uplift.

Education

BA, Political Science & International Relations

Nazarbayev University

2017

Selected projects

Self-hosted retrieval (RAG) service

70,000+ vectors, hybrid semantic + keyword search — in daily production use; MCP-based API for external users.

Conversational voice agents for structured interviews

LLM scoring with evidence traceability.

Public writing on AI governance and auditable scoring

Public writing on LinkedIn in English and Russian.

Open project

Skills

Product discoveryRoadmapPrioritization (value/effort)Stage gatesKill-criteriaROIKPI designExperimentsUser researchFocus groupsWorkshopsAgileLLM and agentic productsClaude APIAzure OpenAIVoice agentsRAG / retrievalPythonSQLPower BI