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Rustem Tukabekov

@tukabekov

CDO interested in AI positions

I am currently CDO at Halyk Market Marketplace. I manage analytics, dwh and ML teams in the company. Interested in data and product positions

Career

Experience: 7 years

Experience

Head of Analytics; previously Analytics Team Lead

Halyk Market

one of Kazakhstan’s largest e-commerce marketplaces

Mar 2024 — Present

Led analytics and grew the team from 9 to 17; established experimentation and measurement, with major releases measured at +10.5% GMV and +4.5pp conversion.

• Scaled the analytics function from 9 to 17 people across 12 workstreams (product, logistics, payments, search, marketing, B2B, data platform, ML) in an organization with no formal capacity planning; built and ran hiring end-to-end: 100+ interviews, 15+ hires, final call on every candidate, with technical screens delegated to senior analysts I trained.

Product Analyst, Real Estate

Avito

the world’s most-visited classifieds platform

Oct 2023 — Feb 2024

Prototyped a realtor recommendation engine, built a KPI dashboard adopted by product and marketing, and supported a new real-estate vertical launch.

• Prototyped a user-item recommendation engine to test USP hypotheses for realtors; built the core KPI dashboard (Redash) adopted by product and marketing teams. • Set up the analytics foundation for the launch of the "New Buildings" vertical in the Real Estate stream.

Product Analyst

Kolesa Group

#1 auto & real-estate classifieds in Kazakhstan

Aug 2021 — Oct 2023

Ran product experiments, introduced sequential testing, and maintained analytics continuity through a migration into Kaspi SuperApp.

• Designed and ran A/B tests (Firebase); introduced SPRT sequential testing to shorten experiment cycles and speed up product decisions. • Led analytics through the product’s migration into Kaspi SuperApp (Kazakhstan’s leading super-app), preserving continuity of metrics, dashboards, and user insights.

Data Analyst

Prime Source

IT consultancy

Aug 2020 — Aug 2021

Built anti-fraud classification and a case-lookup interface for government clients, reducing lookup time from 2 hours to 5 minutes.

• Built rule-based classification of suspicious taxpayer behavior for the Ministry of Finance (anti-fraud); delivered a case-lookup interface for the Prosecutor General’s Office cutting lookup time from 2 hours to 5 minutes.

Data Analyst

Center for Pedagogical Measurements (NIS)

Jan 2020 — Jul 2020

Analyzed student performance cohorts and built predictive models for computer-adaptive testing.

• Cohort analyses of student performance; predictive models for computer-adaptive testing.

Education

BSc, Mathematics

Nazarbayev University

2014 — 2019

Skills

career frameworksanalytics processesA/B testingSPRT sequential testingGoogle BigQueryClickHousePostgreSQLVerticadata analysisstatistical modelingApache AirflowApache KafkaApache SupersetPower BIRedashGoogle AnalyticsAmplitudeFirebaseAppMetricaYandex Metrica