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Arlan Toktarkhan

@arlantokConnected with DSML. This person's Telegram account has been confirmed through DSML Kazakhstan.

ML Engineer interested in CV and applied AI

ML Engineer specialising in computer vision: object detection, text recognition, and biometrics.

Open to

Research collaborationProject collaborationStartup collaborationHelping organize meetupsJoining competitions & hackathons

About

I own tasks end-to-end — data collection and labelling, multi-GPU training, evaluation, inference API, and release through a CI/CD pipeline with dev / stage / prod environments. Stack: Python, PyTorch, OpenCV, ONNX Runtime, Docker, PostgreSQL, SQL. Alongside this, a strong quantitative foundation — probability, mathematical statistics, econometrics and causal inference — so I'm equally comfortable with tabular data and product analytics.

Career

Experience: 2 years

Experience

Machine Learning Engineer

BTS Digital

Sep 2025 — Present

Progressed from an ML internship to owning production anti-fraud systems: face liveness, which cut HTER from 5.0% to 1.3%, and identity-document OCR, which raised accuracy to 95% and cut latency by 30%.

• Fine-tune vision-language backbones for face anti-spoofing against print, replay, mask and deepfake attacks, cutting HTER from 5.0% to 1.3% (FAR 0.12%) in production. • Built face detection and anti-spoofing pipelines with RetinaFace, PyTorch and OpenCV for automated content verification, a task closely aligned with automated moderation. • Ran transfer-learning experiments on deepfake video datasets, improving robustness on out-of-distribution samples. • Own an end-to-end OCR system for identity documents (IDs, passports)

Education

BSc, Data Science and Business Analytics

University of London (academic direction by LSE)

2023 — 2026

BSc, Information Systems

Kazakh-British Technical University

2022 — 2026

ME314 'Introduction to Data Science and Machine Learning'

LSE Summer School

Achievements

Qazdatathon — 2nd place

Bureau of National Statistics · 2025

Datathon’25 — 2nd place

Freedom Broker / Nazarbayev University · 2025

Metricon Econometrics Hackathon — 2nd and 3rd places

Nazarbayev University

Skills

PythonSQLRPyTorchscikit-learnTensorFlowOpenCVCNNsRNNs/CTCtransformerstransfer learninggradient boostingclusteringpandasNumPyPostgreSQLDuckDBstatsmodelsDockerGit