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Sakura Bissenbayeva

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Data Scientist | MSc in Big Data | Woman Techmaker

As a Data Scientist with over 9 years of experience and a solid educational background, my professional journey has spanned diverse roles in the IT, banking, and data science sectors, including serving as a Full Stack Data Scientist and AI Engineer.

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Career

Experience: 9 years

Experience

Data Scientist, R&D Department

Presight AI Technologies L.L.C.

An Abu Dhabi-based artificial intelligence company.

Nov 2023 — Present

Built AI agents and an English-Arabic sentiment model, and led an entity risk scoring project through production deployment.

• Designed and developed standalone AI agents, demos, and MCP tools; orchestrated workflows and applied RAG and prompt engineering technique. • Developed and deployed a Sentiment Analysis Model for TV and radio data in English and Arabic. • Directed the end-to-end development of the Entity Risk Scoring project from initial design to production deployment.

Senior Data Scientist; Data Scientist, Retail Risk Department

Bank CenterCredit

A commercial bank in Kazakhstan.

Sep 2020 — Oct 2023

Built and automated scoring models, reporting uplifts of 1.55%, 1.96% and 1.19%, and a 5% increase in cash-credit approval rate with a low default rate.

• Delivered model wrote on imbalanced dataset and achieved Uplift of 1.55% for income of 200M+ tenge. • Increased profit, formulated business problems, and offered robust solutions based on data analysis. • Wrote AutoML DAGs for predicting mobile application and opening deposit (Uplifts are 1,96% and 1,19% for 350+M tenge). • Validate scorecards and craft DataMart for new credit scoring models. • Successfully directed project on data integration with Bureau of National Statistics. • Developed ML models for Cash credit products (approval rate boosted by 5% with low default rate).

AI Engineer (NLP), Legal Department – AI Legaltech Team & Sberbank Real Estate Centre; Data Analyst, bank Real Estate...

Sberbank

A major Russian banking group.

Nov 2018 — May 2020

Worked on legal-document NLP and business reporting; automated a helpdesk report, reducing processing time from over an hour to under 10 minutes.

• Researched extracting key phrases for chatbot project for creating list of unigrams. • Rated banks in Kazakhstan to enter list of top three Banks in Kazakhstan during Centercredit time. • Automated business report of Helpdesk system and optimised time from more than one hour to less than 10 minutes. • Crafted automated business reports and created 10+ reports of advanced level from scratch.

Data Analyst, Big Data & DWH Team

Prime Source IT Consultancy Company

Nov 2017 — Sep 2018

Created BI dashboards, predictive models and data streams, including an ML model for a leading bank in Kazakhstan.

• Created ML model for one of leading banks of Kazakhstan.

Business Analyst

Not specified

Jun 2015 — Nov 2017

Worked as a Business Analyst; employer and responsibilities are not specified.

Education

Master of Science, Big Data Systems

National Research University Higher School of Economics

Master of Engineering & Technology

Al-Farabi Kazakh National University

Bachelor of Engineering & Technology

Al-Farabi Kazakh National University

Achievements

TeensinAI Hackathon team won 1st Place

TeensinAI Hackathon

Scholarship Winner

Paris-Lodron University of Salzburg

Scholarship Winner

La Sapienza University

Certificate of Appreciation

Narxoz University

Skills

PythonRJupyterhubNumPyPandasScikit-LearnspaCyNLTKImutilsOpenCVScipyDashPlotlyMatplotlibSeabornFoliumHTMLCSSMachine Learning AlgorithmsOptimization Methods & Libraries