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Dauren Apas
@ddaurren
Software Engineer · ESEP
I'm a software engineer and CS student at Nazarbayev University, currently building AI-driven automation at Esep Home: LLM agents that handle WhatsApp orders end to end, RAG pipelines with pgvector, and a mobile app used by 30,000+ people.
About
I like applied ML that ships to real users. I fine-tuned a LoRA adapter on SDXL for a Kazakh-folklore storyboard generator (1st place, Higgsfield ML case at HackNU 2025) and built InternAI, an AI learning platform with 471 users in 90 countries. Stack: Python, FastAPI, TypeScript, React, PostgreSQL, OpenAI SDK, LangGraph. Open to remote or Kazakhstan-based ML/AI engineering roles.
How I can help
Hands-on experience shipping LLM and diffusion-model products to real users: RAG pipelines, agent workflows, LoRA fine-tuning, and full-stack deployment on cloud. Happy to share what I've learned from hackathons and nFactorial, help with event organization (I build the websites for HackNU and ACM@NU events), and collaborate on open-source or side projects.
Looking to connect
Job openings and referrals for ML/AI engineering roles, remote or in Kazakhstan. Peers and mentors working on applied LLM systems and generative models, and interesting projects or research to contribute to.