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Saltanat Tugayeva

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ML & Computer Vision Engineer | Generative AI, Deep Learning & Visual Dubbing

Im ML and CV engineer. Currently working on AI powered visual dubbing. I'm passionate about deep learning, generative AI, and computer vision, especially building AI solutions

Career

Experience

ML Engineer Intern

Freedom AI Labs

Jul 2026 — Oct 2026

Built and evaluated a multi-shot visual dubbing pipeline; reached 0.680 median StableSyncNet against a 0.705 commercial baseline while limiting edits to the speaker’s oral region.

• Developed Q-Dub, a production-oriented visual dubbing pipeline for film footage that synchronizes a speaker’s mouth to translated audio while preserving identity, head motion, expressions, and the original scene. • Built an end-to-end multi-shot pipeline combining shot detection, face tracking, active-speaker selection, VAD, audio-video alignment, generative lip synchronization, and source-preserving compositing; evaluated LatentSync, X-Dub, MuseTalk, InfiniteTalk, and other video-generation approaches.

Founder & AI Engineer

tryinsightengine.com

Jun 2026 — Aug 2026

Built and launched an AI SaaS with a multi-agent content workflow; attracted 450+ registered users and was selected for the Top 25 Demo Day.

• Built and launched an AI SaaS in 7 weeks using Next.js, TypeScript, PostgreSQL, LangGraph, and Vercel. • Designed a multi-agent workflow with researcher, critic, and writer agents for generating social content in a user’s writing style. • Reached 450+ registered users and 5,000+ visitors from 85 countries, generated $125 in revenue, and was selected for the Top 25 Demo Day out of 77 projects.

Junior ML Engineer

SDU AI Lab

Mar 2026 — Present

Built computer vision and multimodal ML prototypes, including a harassment-detection pipeline that achieved F1 0.80 on an internal benchmark.

• Built computer vision and multimodal ML prototypes, including a Kafka-based harassment-detection pipeline using EfficientNet-B2, LSTM, and OpenCV, achieving F1 0.80 on an internal benchmark.

Education

B.S., Computer Science

Suleyman Demirel University (SDU)

2025 — 2029

Kairu × Astana Hub

2026 — 2026

nFactorial School

2025 — 2026

Selected projects

Advanced RAG & GraphRAG Pipeline

Built hybrid retrieval with dense embeddings, BM25, Reciprocal Rank Fusion, and cross-encoder reranking, improving RAGAS context precision from 0.68 to 0.76 across 10 experiments. Built a Neo4j GraphRAG knowledge graph with approximately 270 entities and 180 relations.

Kazakh History LLM Fine-Tuning

Fine-tuned Qwen2.5-3B-Instruct on 356 textbook-derived Kazakh QA pairs using 4-bit QLoRA, training only 0.96% of model parameters.

Achievements

2nd Place, WISH Hackathon

2026

3rd Place, AI Cup

2026

Master of Sport of Kazakhstan in Badminton

Kazakhstan

Skills

PythonC++JavaTypeScriptPyTorchTransformersDiffusion ModelsComputer VisionMultimodal LearningGenerative VideoFine-tuningModel EvaluationRAGGraphRAGLangGraphQLoRARAGASOpenCVFastAPIKafka