Professor's Exoskeleton
An agentic AI harness for university teaching, built around LLMs and MCP integrations for course planning, lesson preparation, material creation, assessment design, grading, and learning-data analysis.
Public profile
Ardak Shalkarbayuli
@ardakshalkar
Senior LLM Engineer | Agentic AI, RAG, MCP & ML Engineering
LangChain
I am an AI Product and Engineering Lead at Narxoz University, building agentic AI platforms, RAG systems, and applied NLP products. I lead cross-functional teams and turn research and prototypes into scalable tools for education and organizational workflows.
Almaty, KazakhstanSDU University
How I can help
I can contribute mentoring, talks, and practical guidance on AI product development, LLM agents, RAG, Kazakh NLP, and AI adoption in education.
Looking to connect
I want to connect with AI product builders, researchers, founders, and engineering leaders for collaboration, applied research, and product opportunities.
Career
Experience, skills, projects, and achievements.
Experience: 18 years
Senior LLM Engineer | Agentic AI, RAG, MCP & ML Engineering
Skills
LangChain
Selected projects
PaperGrade.pro
An AI-assisted system for processing scanned handwritten exams, extracting answers, generating grading tables, and supporting instructors with Gemini-based workflows; used to process 150 papers.
Open projectAchievements
Research contribution presented at LREC-COLING 2024
ISSAI, Nazarbayev University · 2024
Contributed Kazakh-language question-answering datasets, corpus collection, and model evaluation to research presented at LREC-COLING 2024.
Open linkExperience
AI Product & Engineering Lead
Narxoz University
Sep 2024 — PresentLead AI transformation programs and the internal LLM platform. Build agentic AI and MCP integrations, RAG systems, academic automation, mobile/backend products, and AI-assisted assessment tools. Led a five-person engineering and analytics team, launched eight AI agents across four university units, and trained 100+ staff and faculty.
Research Assistant
Nazarbayev University (ISSAI)
Jan 2023 — Oct 2023Worked on Kazakh-language question answering: prepared SQuAD and Qrels data, parsed Wikipedia content, evaluated models, and contributed to research presented at LREC 2024.
Senior Lecturer and Program Coordinator
Suleyman Demirel University
Sep 2008 — Sep 2023Taught Programming, Databases, Natural Language Processing, and Artificial Intelligence; coordinated academic programs and supported curriculum delivery.
Head of Software Development
Soztekser.kz
Mar 2017 — Dec 2020Led development of a Kazakh-language spelling-correction web application, covering frontend, backend, and search optimization.
Head of Automation Department
Suleyman Demirel University
Sep 2019 — Mar 2020Organized the development team, worked with internal stakeholders, contributed code, and managed infrastructure and automation initiatives.
Education
Master's degree, Software Engineering and Automated Systems
Suleyman Demirel University
2010Master of Engineering.