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Alikhan Ibrayev

@alper

Junior Data Scientist | NLP and Applied Machine Learning

AI & ML Engineer with a background in Cyber Security and hands-on experience building RAG pipelines, multimodal VLM workflows, and NLP systems.

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About

I enjoy wrapping ML models into FastAPI services, automating business logic with LLMs, and designing smart data pipelines. Currently focused on production LLM/RAG setups and classical ML.

Career

Experience: 1 years

Experience

Business Intelligence Intern

Yessen & Co

Apr 2024 — Jun 2024

Built attendance and task dashboards, automated reporting from multiple data sources, and analyzed employee satisfaction surveys for HR.

• Created interactive dashboards in Google Looker Data Studio and Yandex DataLens to monitor employee attendance and task progress, using data from Notion.so and Attendance Bot. • Integrated and transformed datasets from multiple sources using Google Sheets and Apps Script to automate reporting and checks for analytics updates in real time. • Created employee satisfaction surveys using Google Forms and visualized results in Excel with pivot tables and charts to support HR decisions.

Data Scientist Intern

Center for Development of Labor Resources

A Kazakhstan labor market organization that supports workforce planning and analysis through labor market data and research.

Mar 2025 — May 2025

Prepared 100K+ education records and built NLP classification and clustering pipelines for specialties and job descriptions.

• Cleaned and matched 100K+ rows of education data with pandas and RapidFuzz, standardized institution names, and fixed encoding errors to improve model accuracy and data consistency. • Built an end-to-end NLP pipeline with spaCy and RuBERT to classify 300+ specialties, established a baseline AUC, and iteratively improved metrics. • Applied clustering to text data using TF-IDF features and SBERT embeddings to group similar job descriptions, evaluating cluster quality with Silhouette and Davies-Bouldin metrics.

Data Scientist Intern

Center for Development of Labor Resources

A Kazakhstan labor market organization that supports workforce planning and analysis through labor market data and research.

Aug 2025 — Aug 2025

Built multilingual vacancy matching and image analysis pipelines using semantic embeddings, OCR, and a vision-language model.

• Built a semantic pipeline to match job vacancies to a profession taxonomy in Russian and Kazakh using SentenceTransformers and multilingual-e5, creating a combined dataset for later analysis. • Developed a multimodal pipeline using OCR and the Qwen2.5-VL Hugging Face API to analyze images in Kazakh and Russian, extract text automatically, categorize it, and generate structured descriptions.

Automation Technical Specialist

A12 Agency

Jan 2026 — Jul 2026

Integrated Bitrix24 with external systems, cleaned commercial datasets of 7K–20K records, and deployed Docker-based CRM services.

• Designed two-way integration and data exchange between Bitrix24 CRM and external information systems, including MedElement, MoySklad, and Wazzup, using REST APIs and webhook handlers to synchronize schedules, transaction records, and user profiles. • Developed Python and pandas scripts for ETL, cleaning, validation, and deduplication of commercial datasets ranging from 7K to 20K records, maintaining database consistency and integrity. • Configured development environments and deployed containerized web services for lead forms and CRM modules using Docker.

Education

Bachelor of Science, Cyber Security

Astana IT University

2025

Skills

PythonpandasNumPySQLPostgreSQLREST APIsWebhooksUnixBashLightGBMXGBoostCatBoostScikit-learnClassificationRegressionDBSCANk-meansRAGFAISSSBERT