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Baurzhan Saliyev

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ML Engineer interested in applied Al roles

Hi everyone! I am a software engineer and am studying for a Master’s degree in Applied Artificial Intelligence at AITU

Career

Experience: 3 years

Experience

Software Engineer

Alem.ai Foundation

Aug 2025 — Present

Built Go backend services and a multi-campus dashboard; attendance tracking handled about 740,000 requests in one day, and an AI agent removed about an hour of daily manual validation work.

• Developed an internal dashboard in Go and React for 4 campuses (Astana, Almaty, Pavlodar, Shymkent) with Gitea OAuth 2.0 authentication, per-campus Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) and an audit log enforced by a PostgreSQL trigger. • Implemented backend-enforced attendance tracking (network allowlist, one active session per user, heartbeat-capped time accrual) that handled about 740,000 API requests in a single day, including 280,000 agent heartbeats. • Automated candidate application validation with a scheduled AI agent (Hermes), eliminating about 1 hour of manual work per day.

Junior Backend Developer

Alem School

Feb 2024 — Aug 2025

Developed and maintained Go APIs and platform features for cohort, student and project management; also built an admin-access Telegram bot and reviewed backend code.

• Developed REST APIs in Go (Gin, Fiber) with PostgreSQL, containerized with Docker. • Implemented cohort management, student management and optional-project creation on the curriculum map of the learning platform. • Built a Telegram bot that provided access to the platform admin panel. • Refactored and maintained backend services according to Clean Architecture principles. • Performed code reviews for backend pull requests.

Backend Developer Intern

Doodocs

Dec 2023 — Feb 2024

Interned on Go backend services, working on REST and gRPC, PostgreSQL query optimization, Redis integration, tests and production bug fixes.

• Developed REST and gRPC services in Go. • Optimized PostgreSQL queries and integrated Redis into backend services. • Wrote unit tests for Go services. • Fixed bugs in production backend code.

Education

Master of Science, Applied Artificial Intelligence

Astana IT University

2025 — 2027

Bachelor of Science, Software Engineering

Astana IT University

2022 — 2025

Selected projects

Book Rating Platform

Built a Go REST API and a Next.js 14 frontend localized into 7 languages. Implemented LLM-based review moderation using a durable NATS JetStream consumer with explicit acknowledgements, bounded redelivery with backoff and a sweep to reprocess stuck reviews. Developed an ingestion worker to synchronize the catalog from 6 sources, publish events and route failed records to a dead-letter table wit...

Heavy-Metal Air Pollution Forecasting (MSc research)

Built a data pipeline to rebuild a modelling table from 32 Excel workbooks covering 2006–2020 and benchmarked 10 tuned regression models; achieved test R2 = 0.704 for lead (Pb) with Extra Trees. Applied explainable ML (SHAP, LIME), LSTM and GRU networks, quantile regression and a Chow test, finding a structural break in 2011 (F = 23.36).

Skills

Go (Golang)PostgreSQLRedisREST APIgRPC (Google Remote Procedure Call)Protocol Buffers (Protobuf)NATS JetStreamDockerGitHub ActionsClean ArchitectureUnit TestingSQLPythonTypeScriptReactNext.jsLinuxBashGitDocker Compose