Shokhan Birlikov

Senior Data Scientist

CLARA Analytics

Provides AI-powered predictive analytics and decision-support tools for the insurance industry.

Develops insurance prediction models and end-to-end ML workflows; built Claude Code skills that reduced some data-science workflows from hours to minutes.

• Develop and deploy ML models for insurance cost prediction, risk assessment, and classification, including feature engineering, tuning, and threshold optimization. • Built internal Claude Code agent skills for the data-science team - automated EDA, a Confluence report publisher, and a conversational natural-language interface to the Athena data warehouse - cutting workflows that took hours down to minutes. • Use AI coding agents (Claude Code) in day-to-day engineering for code development, merge-request reviews, and report writing.

Data Scientist, ML Development

Behavox

Provides AI-powered compliance and communications-monitoring software for businesses.

Built multilingual text-classification and compliance models, including language identification and signature tagging; also supported ASR training pipelines.

• Developed text-classification models and compliance applications for detecting suspicious communications and bad actors across multiple languages and communication channels. • Trained and fine-tuned a range of models - linear classifiers, BERT transformers, and Large Language Models - with extensive result analysis (threshold selection, dataset preparation, parameter tuning). • Supported Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) projects through dataset preparation and running training pipelines. • Developed Language Identifier and Signature Tagger models.

Senior Machine Learning Engineer

Galamat-Tech

Built conversational AI for 10+ local businesses, an NLU service for a chatbot platform, and language-processing tools.

• Developed conversational AI and goal-oriented chatbots deployed for 10+ local businesses; worked closely with business to convert requests into technical tasks, and owned development and maintenance. • Built the Natural Language Understanding service for a Chatbot Constructor platform - semantic question-answering and retrieval-based context grounding for more accurate chats; ran experiments with open-source language models.

Machine Learning Engineer

BTS-Digital

Built bilingual virtual-assistant and chatbot systems, face anti-spoofing for a national platform used by 8M people, and an OCR document scanner.

• Built a bilingual (Kazakh-Russian) virtual assistant and an intent-based dialogue system. • Developed goal-oriented chatbots and automated call-center assistants helping local businesses automate support and sales. • Researched and implemented Face Anti-Spoofing algorithms for the "Digital ID" face-biometrics system used by 8M users of a national gov-tech platform. • Built a custom OCR-based document scanner tool from scratch.

Machine Learning Engineer

AI-Labs

Prototyped an audio-to-lip-animation project and contributed to a National Bank virtual assistant serving 100K online users.

• Built "Speech2Lips" from scratch - an interdisciplinary project generating lip animation from audio speech; prototyped and validated application viability. • Contributed to a Virtual Assistant chatbot for the National Bank serving 100K online users.

M.S., Applied Mathematics and Computer Science

Moscow State University

M.S., Machine Learning

MADE Data Science Academy

B.S., Applied Mathematics

Aktobe State University