Careers

Senior Machine Learning Engineer

Careem (Dubai, UAE)

2023 - Present

Matching and ETA Systems:

  • Launched priority-based dispatching reducing delivery time by 2% and courier time by 2.5%
  • Designed real-time GPS spoofing detection, reducing affected orders by 93%
  • Improved ETA accuracy by 10% through stage splitter system

Courier Operating Model Transformation:

  • Built end-to-end planning system for zone definition and shift optimization
  • Achieved $1.5M annual savings through improved marketplace balance

Senior AI Engineer

Checklens GmbH (Salzburg, Austria)

2021 - 2022

Led AI development of a fraud prevention system deployed in IKEA and Netto, increasing profitability by 0.5%:

  • Trained real-time Object Detection and Feature Extraction models enabling accurate recognition of 15,000+ products
  • Developed a two-stage tracking model combining Gradient Boosting and Graph Neural Networks (GNN), using geometric, appearance, and interaction features
  • Built tools to assess annotation quality and maintain dataset consistency, accelerating data preparation and improving model accuracy
  • Automated pipelines for video ingestion, annotation tasks creation, model fine-tuning, and deployment, facilitating rapid production rollouts in new stores

Senior AI Researcher

Harrison.ai (Sydney, Australia)

2020 - 2021

AI Radiology Automation (Annalise CXR):

  • Designed and trained a combined multi-task AI model integrating attribute detection, classification, and segmentation capabilities enabling the detection of over 120 chest X-ray pathologies
  • Co-authored research published in The Lancet Digital Health demonstrating substantial improvement in radiologists' diagnostic accuracy across diverse clinical findings
  • Integrated into 250+ Australian radiology clinics, the system has improved diagnostic accuracy by 45% and reduced radiologist workload by 20% of cases through automated reporting

Head of Artificial Intelligence

BTS Digital (Astana, Kazakhstan)

2018 - 2020

Driving innovative projects:

  • Digital ID: facial recognition system for identity verification with anti-spoofing and 2M+ verifications/month
  • ASR service: electronic government services call center automation (supporting mixed bilingual dialogues)
  • Ainews: AI-driven news aggregation platform with recommendations and duplicate removal

Leadership:

  • Built the leading AI team in the region, defining vision and roadmap for strategic AI projects
  • driving AI talent development through industry-academia collaboration, organizing Kazakhstan's first AI course and open research seminars

Data Scientist

Kazpost (Astana, Kazakhstan)

2017 - 2018

Integrated Planning System:

  • Implemented an advanced Integrated Planning System, setting data-driven sales targets and compensation plans for 3,000+ branches, resulting in an annual revenue increase of 8% (KZT 1.6B / ~$5M)
  • Leveraged time series forecasting and developed branch-level performance models, optimizing operational efficiency and sales effectiveness nationwide

Data Science Intern

Yandex (Moscow, Russia)

2016

Safe Search Department:

  • Developed algorithms for content filtering and classification

Computer Vision Engineer

Esculabs (Astana, Kazakhstan)

2015

Medical Imaging Quality Control:

  • Developed and implemented a computer vision-based automated quality control system for fiber scanning in ultrasound liver diagnostics (FibroScan)
  • The system improved the accuracy and consistency of medical imaging assessments, enhancing clinical reliability and patient outcomes for liver disease diagnostics