Akniyet Kalzhan

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Akniyet Kalzhan

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Data scientist \ ML Engineer

ML engineer with experience in LLM fine-tuning, knowledge distillation and computer vision. Works on Kazakhlanguage AI, dataset preparation and model training, alongside business process automation and API integration.

Almaty
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Career

Experience, skills, projects, and achievements.

Data scientist \ ML Engineer

Experience

Computer vision intern

KazNU - Robototechnics labaratory

Feb 2024 — Sep 2024

Trained CNN and YOLO models to support navigation of a patrol robot on the university campus.

ML Engineer / LLM researcher

KazNU - AIKazMedia project

Mar 2025 — Jul 2026

• Fine-tuned LLMs and researched knowledge distillation with Qwen3.5-4B for Kazakh-language responses formatted as Markdown tables. • Prepared datasets and trained machine learning models using NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 hardware. • Built dashboards and contributed to research articles on machine learning and language models.

Analytics and Business Process Automation

MyBPM

Jul 2026 — Present

• Analyze and automate business processes; develop services, business objects and workflows. • Review and optimize existing systems, work with REST APIs and manage Docker containers.

Education

BSc Data science

KazNU

2022 — 2026

MSc Computer science

KazNU/NPU

2026 — 2028

Dual diploma program