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Miras Sagirbay

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

Machine Learning Engineer

I am an Machine Learning Engineer specializing in Computer Vision and Remote Sensing, with experience building satellite imagery platforms and fine-tuning Vision-Language models.

Career

Experience: 3 years

Experience

Data Team Lead

ThanksCarbon

Jun 2026 — Present

Leads development of a multilingual farmer-evidence platform and coordinates a team working across remote sensing, computer vision, and AI products.

• Lead the architecture and development of ASKER, a multilingual conversation-first platform using guarded LLM workflows to collect auditable field boundaries, agricultural operations, photos, and voice evidence from smallholder farmers for future digital MRV programs. • Lead the data team across remote sensing, computer vision, and AI product development, coordinating technical priorities and integration with MRV platforms.

Machine Learning Engineer

ThanksCarbon

Mar 2024 — May 2026

Built satellite-imagery models for rice-field detection and delineation, forest monitoring, and photo-based irrigation classification; reported F1 78.3% and IoU 0.738.

• Developed an AWD detection model for Cambodia rice fields using Sentinel-1 and AlphaEarth; achieved a 78.3% F1 score, outperforming research benchmarks (74.2%) using a company project dataset. • Developed a rice paddy delineation model for MRV platform projects using high-resolution satellite imagery and open-source datasets, achieving an IoU score of 0.738. • Developed an AI-based forest monitoring platform using satellite imagery for forestry health assessment and deforestation detection.

Job Seeker Visa (D-10)

Active Job Search

Oct 2023 — Feb 2024

Sought tech employment in South Korea and continued independent learning and machine learning projects after graduation.

• Actively sought professional employment in the South Korean tech industry following university graduation. • Engaged in self-directed learning and continued development of personal machine learning projects.

Research Assistant

Konkuk University

Jun 2023 — Sep 2023

Collected Korean text corpora with web crawlers and supported research publication through editing and data visualizations.

• Developed automated web crawlers using BS4 and Selenium to collect Korean text corpora from diverse online platforms. • Supported research publication by text formatting, technical editing and creating data visualizations of research data.

Machine Learning Engineer

TengriLab

Feb 2022 — Jan 2023

Developed speech-recognition and biometric-authentication models, reporting 10.55% WER and 96% accuracy, and managed six GPU workstations.

• Developed a telephony ASR model using Nvidia NeMo to improve user interaction and data accuracy, achieving a WER of 10.55%, an 8% improvement over the previous model. • Developed liveness detection and user recognition model, deploying them on Raspberry Pi for real-time biometric authentication, achieving 96% accuracy using a hybrid dataset of open-source and proprietary company data. • Managed 6 GPU Linux workstations, configuring remote access for AI training.

Education

B.S., Computer Science and Engineering

Sejong University

2019 — 2023

Selected projects

Plant Disease Pipeline

Built a two-stage plant disease identification pipeline with 99.5% species classification accuracy across 27 plant species and per-species disease classifiers averaging over 95% test accuracy. Created label normalization for 20+ datasets and a modular training pipeline.

Scaling-ML

Fine-tuned BERT for news headline classification, used distributed hyperparameter tuning, and deployed an inference API; achieved 94.3% F1 on the News Category Dataset.

Kazakh Speech to Text Model using NVIDIA NeMo

Developed a lightweight Kazakh ASR model using QuartzNet 15x5, fine-tuned on the 1,200-hour KSC2 dataset, achieving 13.53% WER with inference on consumer GPUs.

Skills

Computer VisionSpeech ProcessingRemote SensingPythonSQLBashC/C++JavaScriptHTMLCSSPyTorchTensorRTONNXScikit-LearnLangChainLangGraphPydantic AINVIDIA NeMovLLMRay