Senior Expert, AI Team for CFO & CRO Divisions
ForteBank
A commercial bank in Kazakhstan.
Sep 2025 — Apr 2026Built an AI document-verification system and moved it on-premises; reduced manual checks by 80%.
• Designed and built an end-to-end AI document-verification system for automated reconciliation of financial documents (acts, contracts, e-invoices), reducing manual checks by 80%.
• Built an initial version on AWS using Textract for OCR, S3, Bedrock for LLM, and Lambda for orchestration.
• Migrated the system to fully on-premises infrastructure per banking security requirements, using Docker Compose, FastAPI, Celery, PostgreSQL, and Linux.
• Retained AWS Textract as the primary OCR engine, with local Tesseract as a fallback.
Senior Expert, Data Science
ForteBank
A commercial bank in Kazakhstan.
Oct 2023 — Sep 2025Developed predictive models and dashboards, and built a RAG chatbot that cut data discovery time by 70% and saved 200+ hours monthly.
• Developed predictive models for income and churn, and interactive dashboards for marketing and mobile banking to support strategic decisions.
• Built a custom RAG chatbot on 460+ database summaries, cutting data discovery time by 70% and saving 200+ man-hours per month.
• Optimized complex SQL queries using advanced joins, CTEs, and window functions.
• Interviewed 100+ Data Scientist candidates and built Amplitude analytics dashboards.
Senior Expert, Loan Portfolio Provisioning
ForteBank
A commercial bank in Kazakhstan.
Apr 2022 — Oct 2023Maintained credit impairment models and supplied stress-testing projections and regulatory reporting; automated reporting scripts in R.
• Maintained the full suite of credit impairment models (PD, LGD, EAD, CCF) and Definition of Default engines.
• Provided credit loss projections for internal and external stress testing, including regulatory reporting.
• Automated data processing and regulatory reporting scripts in R.
Chief Specialist, Analysis & Strategy
Kazakhstan Housing Company
Jun 2021 — Mar 2022Built project timeline forecasting models and maintained data transformation scripts and Power BI dashboards.
• Built predictive models using linear and logistic regression for project timeline forecasting.
• Developed data transformation scripts in R and extracted and analyzed data from MS SQL Server.
• Maintained Power BI reporting dashboards.
Budget Planning Specialist
National Bank of Kazakhstan
The central bank of Kazakhstan.
Worked as a Budget Planning Specialist; the resume provides no further details.
