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Olzhas Alseitov

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AI/ML Lead focused on production LLM systems, RAG, agents, vLLM inference, fine-tuning, and secure AI platforms.

I am an AI Engineer focused on applied LLM systems, NLP, RAG, model adaptation, and AI infrastructure for real-world products. I work on building practical AI assistants, evaluation pipelines, and domain-specific solutions for public sector and enterprise use cases.

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Career

Experience: 4 years

Experience

Software Development Team Lead, AI Department

AO “National Information Technologies” (NITEC)

National operator of Kazakhstan's e-government infrastructure

Mar 2025 — Present

Leads application software and DBMS delivery for a national sovereign AI platform; also delivered security testing and production RAG/LLM systems.

• National AI Platform (GovTech): own end-to-end development of the platform's application software (ППО) and DBMS layers for a secure sovereign LLM stack serving e-gov services; personally defended the system through audits. • STS security attestation: led the platform through State Technical Service (ГТС) information-security testing, covering secure source-code analysis, security-function testing, and secure production-deployment requirements per the Law “On Informatization”.

AI/ML Team Lead

qCloudy

AWS Partner

Mar 2024 — Mar 2025

Led AI/ML delivery and AWS competency work; agricultural inspection projects increased annual coverage fourfold and cut processing time to 2–3 weeks.

• AWS GenAI Competency: led the company's Generative AI Competency program end-to-end and personally defended the AWS audit, which passed; also contributed to building and passing the ML Competency. • KazAgroFinance (3 projects, lead): delivered CV equipment classification, an OCR document pipeline on AWS, and video analytics for agricultural machinery inspection; grew annual inspection coverage 400% (5,000 → 21,000 units) and cut processing time from 3 months to 2–3 weeks.

Open-Source Contributor

OpenSearch (Amazon)

Amazon's open-source search and analytics project.

Sep 2023 — Nov 2023

Fixed an AWS-integration bug in the OpenSearch notification dashboard; the contribution was merged upstream.

• Diagnosed and fixed an AWS-integration bug in the OpenSearch notification dashboard caused by malformed frontend request payloads; contribution merged upstream.

Backend Developer

iSate

Apr 2022 — Apr 2024

Built backend retry and data-ingestion services and contributed customer feedback and support improvements to the release process.

• Designed a microservice for guaranteed re-delivery of failed requests (scheduled retries, DB-backed state), containerized with Docker and monitored via Splunk; built an XML→JSON parser for Splunk ingestion. • Ran customer demos and drove product and tech-support improvements adopted into the release process.

Junior ML Engineer / Researcher

Eurasian National University

Jan 2023 — Jan 2024

Built an electronic-nose classification pipeline for gases and petroleum-product vapors, achieving over 98% pattern-recognition accuracy.

• Electronic Nose: built the end-to-end ML pipeline (Decision Trees, KNN) for classifying harmful gases and petroleum-product vapors; over 98% pattern-recognition accuracy, published at an international conference.

Education

PhD, AI Engineering

Astana IT University

2028

MSc, Cybersecurity

Eurasian National University

2025

BSc, Cryptography

Eurasian National University

2022

Selected projects

whisper-large-v3-tulpar

Full fine-tune of all 1.55B parameters of Whisper Large V3 for Kazakh ASR on approximately 900 hours of curated speech; WER reduced from approximately 20% to 10.62% on ISSAI KSC. Released under Apache-2.0.

adilet-legal-qa-kz

13,159 RU/KK QA pairs from 28 Kazakhstani legal acts, built for training Doc-to-LoRA hypernetworks to internalize a legal document into LLM weights in under one second; PoC validated on Qwen3-4B.

RL complaint-routing agent

Designed reward functions and queue dynamics for routing government complaints; demonstrated RL outperforming static classification on real system efficiency in a published case study.

Achievements

International Finalist, ICAC International Hackathon 2025 (Hong Kong): represented Kazakhstan; built an AI-Integrity...

ICAC International Hackathon · 2025

Skills

QLoRADPOFull fine-tuningFlashAttention-2vLLM (multi-LoRA serving)OllamaLangChainRAGDoc-to-LoRA / hypernetworksHugging FaceAmazon Bedrock & SageMakerPGVectorRedis (LMCache)OpenWebUILLM GuardPrompt-injection defenseJailbreak & data-leakage testingRed- and blue-teamingRBACAudit logging