Careers
Built and lead top-tier R&D teams, launching AI/ML solutions globally across industries, Kaggle Master Top 14, published in Lancet, international math olympiads medalist
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
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
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