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Yeldar Toktasynov

@momongo

ML Engineer — building deep learning models end-to-end, from research to production

Data Scientist with 7+ years of experience in Machine Learning, Deep Learning and Computer Vision.

Career

Experience: 7 years

Experience

Senior CV engineer

Biometric Vision

Apr 2023 — Present

End-to-end deep learning research for a face-liveness and identity-verification product — anti-spoofing, face recognition, document OCR, and demographic attribute models. Stack: PyTorch, ONNX/TensorRT, FAISS, Docker, CUDA on RTX GPUs. Shipped multiple models to production, several reaching state-of-the-art on internal benchmarks.

NLP Engineer

ALEM Research

Dec 2021 — Jan 2023

Built NLP systems over Russian/Kazakh text at scale — a clinically-validated mental-health screening bot and large-scale document clustering across hundreds of thousands of records. Stack: BERT, Word2Vec, FAISS, TF-IDF, Solr.

Lead, Data Science & Algorithms Team

RELOG

Mar 2021 — Oct 2021

Led a small team building Vehicle Routing Problem optimization for logistics planning. Stack: Java, RabbitMQ, clustering/heuristic algorithms. Delivered production routing with an integrated statistical traffic-jam map.

Education

Bachelor of Science in Computer Science

Nazarbayev University

2014 — 2018

Selected projects

Ryadom

Designed and implemented Vehicle Routing Problem optimization algorithms for a food delivery application; built Kafka-based event pipeline; deployed to production.

Open project

FaceR

Built a face recognition system for the “Safe City” Hackathon, Astana. Winner project.

Achievements

IMC bronze medal winner

International Mathematics Competition for Students. Bronze medal

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ACM ICPC Semifinalist

2016

ACM ICPC Semifinalist, Almaty (2016)

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National Mathematical Olympiad winner

Kazakhstan National Mathematical Olympiad - 2 Silver, 1 Bronze medals. (2012–2014). National team member

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