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Korlan Argynova

@kargynovaConnected with DSML. This person's Telegram account has been confirmed through DSML Kazakhstan.

ML Engineer interested in educational program design

AI/ML engineer and educator. My background spans data engineering in FinTech, AI engineering (RAG systems), deep learning research (YOLO-World), and teaching algorithms at Kazakh universities. Interested in AI/ML education methodology.

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Hiring & referralsProject collaborationLearning with othersResearch collaborationMentoring others

Career

Experience: 6 years

Experience

Course Designer & Instructor

Harbour.Space University

Designed a 15-session AI systems course and its assessment framework; the course is listed as upcoming in 2026.

• Designed a 15-session AI Systems Builder course (UW401) from scratch: defined learning outcomes, structured competency progression from fundamentals to cloud-deployed AI agents, created capstone project framework with milestone-based evaluation (60% capstone + 20% quizzes + 10% milestones + 10% participation) • Applied build-first workshop methodology with role-based tracks (Founder, Marketer, PM, Freelancer, Creator), enabling non-technical professionals to deploy working AI agents. Full syllabus available upon request

Lecturer / Course Designer

Satbayev University

Sep 2023 — Jun 2024

Designed and delivered C++ curriculum and online course; reported a 4.6/5 student satisfaction score and student competition results.

• Built the Programming Fundamentals in C++ curriculum from scratch: designed syllabus, created lecture content, developed practical exercises and assessments hosted on Yandex.Contest (midterm, endterm, final exam for the entire cohort). Achieved student satisfaction score of 4.6/5 • Recorded and published a complete 15-lecture online course (Introduction to Programming in C++) on the university's e-learning platform, used by students across cohorts

Teaching Assistant

Kazakh-British Technical University

Aug 2019 — Jan 2020

Designed coding challenges and tutored 50+ students; reports a 15% average grade increase and recognition among the top 6 of 20 TAs.

• Designed 10 coding challenges for Algorithms & Data Structures on Codeforces Polygon, balancing algorithm implementation, applied problem-solving, and engaging narratives. Several problems remain in active use years later • Restructured topic sequencing in the existing curriculum where transitions felt illogical, improving conceptual flow. Recognized as one of the top 6 TAs out of 20 • Tutored 50+ students, resulting in a 15% average increase in grades

Junior Researcher

Institute of Physics & Technology

Aug 2018 — Jul 2024

Built Monte Carlo simulation tools for cosmic ray modeling and co-authored three peer-reviewed publications.

• Developed Monte Carlo simulation tools (Python, Bash) for cosmic ray modeling; co-authored 3 peer-reviewed publications cited by 60+ researchers

Big Data Engineer

Alfa Bank Kazakhstan

May 2021 — Jan 2022

Built PySpark ETL pipelines and redesigned reporting SQL, reporting a 30× ingestion speedup across three databases.

• Built PySpark ETL pipelines (30× ingestion speedup); redesigned SQL logic for financial reporting across three databases

Education

MSc, Data Science

Harbour.Space University

2024 — 2025

MSc, Computer Science

ITMO University

2021 — 2023

BEng, Automation & Control

Kazakh-British Technical University

2014 — 2018

Selected projects

AI Systems Builder course capstone framework

YOLO-World Potato Detection

Prompt tuning improved mAP by 2×; used 7,000 labeled images, Docker (PyTorch+CUDA), and model distillation for edge.

Telos (HackEurope 2026)

MCP server for multi-agent orchestration with ChromaDB RAG and Gemini 2.0 Flash.

PDF Assistant (Databricks)

RAG pipeline with hybrid search, Llama-70B, and MLflow evaluation using ROUGE-L, BLEU, and LLM-as-Judge.

AI Course Platform

LangChain chatbot for education with student analytics tracking and personalized learning paths.

Skills

Curriculum design from scratchOnline course productionBuild-first workshop designPythonPyTorchTensorFlowLangChainRAGMCP protocolDockerPySparkSQL (Oracle, PostgreSQL, MySQL, BigQuery)MLflowOpenCVDatabricks