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Nurtas Zhaksybayev

@nurtas-zhaksybayev

AI Engineer

Lately I’ve been building an AI/GIS copilot for reservoir monitoring, including checks on water masks from satellite images. I also work on chat and voice agents, so I’m always curious about how these systems behave in real use.

Career

Experience: 1 years

Experience

AI Engineer

Newo AI

Newo AI develops AI agents for businesses, including voice agents that handle customer interactions and operational tasks.

Feb 2026 — Jun 2026

Configured chat and voice agent workflows, added multi-location working-hours logic, and tested call, SMS, and compatibility flows.

• Configured and debugged chat/voice agent workflows in Newo/SuperAgent/NAF: routing, state transitions, tool calls, prompts and fallback logic. • Implemented multi-location working-hours support with shared resolver logic and legacy fallbacks; updated session-ending/reporting flows and verified eight compatibility scenarios. • Tested confirmation, phone-number readback and SMS flows with real calls and logs; documented issues and validated changes with scripts and PR checks.

AI Engineer Intern

SHAI.PRO

May 2026 — May 2026

Tested Dify document ingestion and retrieval, comparing chunking and metadata structures for context preservation.

• Tested Dify Knowledge Pipeline retrieval and document ingestion; compared entity-, table- and layout-aware chunking, metadata and parent-child structures for context preservation.

Business Analyst

Business & Technology Services / ERG BTS

Sep 2025 — Dec 2025

Documented OperPlan maintenance workflows and clarified requirements, while helping scope and test AI-agent concepts.

• Documented OperPlan maintenance workflows using UML and user stories; clarified requirements with end users and development teams. • Helped scope and test AI-agent concepts for bug investigation, BA support, defect analysis and work-order planning.

Junior Data Scientist, HPC Project

Astana IT University

A university in Kazakhstan focused on information technology and digital disciplines.

Feb 2025 — Jun 2025

Analyzed HPC data and logs for the international ESEIC project, investigating bottlenecks and evaluating Linux and software options.

• Analyzed HPC performance data and logs in the international ESEIC project; investigated bottlenecks and evaluated Linux/software options.

Education

MSc, Applied Data Analytics

Astana IT University

2025 — 2027

BSc, Mathematical and Computational Sciences

Astana IT University

2022 — 2025

Middle East Technical University

2024 — 2025

Selected projects

AI/GIS Copilot for Reservoir Monitoring

Built a FastAPI/Streamlit prototype with cited methodology retrieval, SQLite demo observations, anomaly checks and grounded reports. Added 28 methodology evaluation cases and data/report checks. Cleaned a 288-dam research dataset and compared Sentinel-2 NDWI, MNDWI and SCL water masks.

Open project

Predictive Modeling of Labor Market Trends in Kazakhstan

Prepared more than 2.6 million employee-level records and modeled wages and labor-market saturation using CatBoost, Explainable Boosting Machine and LSTM, with Bayesian hyperparameter optimization.

Achievements

Best Diploma Work of 2025 in Kazakhstan

2025

Best Paper

Digital Generation-2025 · 2025

2nd place, GDG Datathon

GDG Datathon · 2024

Finalist, Bastau

Bastau · 2024

Skills

LLM agentsRAGDifyCatBoostTensorFlow/KerasLSTMPythonSQLpandasNumPyscikit-learnExcelPower BIFastAPIStreamlitPydanticSQLiteAPI/JSONPostmanGit