AI Program Manager
Beeline Kazakhstan
Leading telecom operator, 10M+ subscribers
Aug 2023 — PresentLeads three production AI product tracks with 30+ contributors, including learning, education and customer analytics products with measurable user and cost outcomes.
• Run three parallel AI product tracks in production: GenAI Platform, Speech Analytics and Mentra with 7 direct reports and 30+ cross-functional contributors across data science, engineering and business.
• Delivered Mentra, an enterprise AI learning assistant for 5,500+ employees, reducing assignment review time from 3 days to under 2 minutes and cutting L&D workload by 10–15%.
• Launched AI Tutor, an AI education assistant for national exam preparation, scaled to 60,000+ monthly active users in production.
NLP & Speech Technologies Product Manager
Beeline Kazakhstan
Leading telecom operator, 10M+ subscribers
Aug 2020 — Aug 2023Built conversational AI and speech products, improved voice bot delivery speed and chatbot accuracy, and enabled KazRoBERTa's open-source release.
• Established an enterprise Conversational AI Platform integrating ASR, TTS and NLU, reducing voice bot scenario delivery from 3–5 days to 5–8 hours.
• Ran end-to-end vendor selection and procurement for a speech technology solution under compressed timelines, clearing legal, security and compliance review amid heightened geopolitical risk constraints.
• Owned deployment of a third-party Speech-to-Text engine (Yandex SpeechKit) into the enterprise environment, coordinating vendor and internal teams through configuration, integration and quality tuning.
Project Supervisor
BI Group
Kazakhstan's largest construction & development holding
Aug 2018 — May 2020Led a 12-person product team and grew platform payment volume 17x, alongside substantial growth in its user base and active users.
• Grew platform payment volume from 200M to 3.4B KZT (17x), increasing user base by 130% and active users by 80%.
• Managed a 12-person cross-functional product team (backend, web/mobile frontend, analytics, UX/UI).
• Owned product concept, roadmap and budget; led cross-functional alignment at top-management level.
Product Manager
ARTA Software
Enterprise software vendor
Oct 2016 — Aug 2018Delivered a digital library platform that moved 40% of issuances online, and registered the product copyright with Kazakhstan's Ministry of Justice.
• Delivered a digital library platform, migrating the physical book fund to an electronic catalog; 40% of issuances moved to the digital channel.
• Managed a 4-person development team, owning roadmap and budget; secured product copyright registration with the Ministry of Justice of Kazakhstan.
