Engineering Logbook · Vol. 01
Engineer and founder from Shymkent, Kazakhstan. I build things that leave the screen: a robotics team that won the FIRST Inspire Award in Kentucky, an AI startup with 5,000+ app downloads, and a haptic wearable for blind users.
Engineer and founder from Shymkent, Kazakhstan. Robotics, an AI startup, assistive hardware.
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Shymkent, Kazakhstan · Class of 2027
I’m a senior at Nazarbayev Intellectual School of Physics and Mathematics in Shymkent, Kazakhstan's third-largest city, on the school's physics-and-math track.
My work runs on three tracks: engineering (robotics, hardware and AI), building companies, and bringing people together. I plan to study electrical or computer engineering with a focus on AI, and to keep building companies along the way.
FIRST Tech Challenge · DECODE 2025–26
In September 2025 I co-founded FIRST Tech Challenge Team Atomic Heart at NIS Shymkent. I lead strategy and outreach and also work on the programming.
Our rookie season took the team, and our robot ATOM, from early tournaments in Kazakhstan, which brought technical failures and defeats, to the Run for the Robots Premier Event in Lexington, Kentucky (May 28–30, 2026). There we won the Inspire Award in the Man o’ War Division; FIRST’s official results list us ahead of U.S. teams from Missouri and Pennsylvania.
The Inspire Award is judged, not won on the scoreboard. It recognizes robot design, engineering documentation, presentation, outreach and teamwork, and we presented our work in English to international judges.
“The first INSPIRE on Premier Event in KZ history.”
AI brand–influencer matching · CTO & co-founder
Jeli LLP is a registered startup that uses AI to match brands with influencers. I’m its CTO and co-founder, and the developer of the website and the iOS and Android apps, where most of the product lives.
After a match, the brand and the creator close the deal inside the app through a protected in-app deal.
Assistive wearable · Arduino software · since grade 10
WalkMate is a wearable for blind and visually impaired people, worn on both legs. Ultrasonic sensors measure the distance to obstacles ahead and turn it into vibration, so the path can be felt rather than seen.
Under 50 cm the unit vibrates strongly; between 50 cm and 1 m it pulses. I wrote the Arduino software; a teammate engineered the hardware. We have tested it with blind users.
AI against mirror-site networks · lead developer · 2026
Piracy and pyramid-scheme sites survive by copying themselves across mirror domains. QalqanAI detects these sites and maps the networks that connect them.
I was the lead developer. Our team placed 3rd of 114, in a field that included university students and adults, at the AI hackathon of Kazakhstan's Agency for Financial Monitoring in Turkistan, and then we refined the project with the agency's experts.
Debate · World Scholar’s Cup · student government · outreach
Alongside the engineering, I organize: tournaments, a global academic competition round, a school budget, and the content that brings students to opportunities.
I founded and ran three national debate tournaments (SouthSide Cup 1.0 and 2.0, and Tulip Cup) in WSDC and BP formats for 140+ debaters. Six sponsors, about $2,400 plus in-kind support, made the events self-funding.
Instagram @southside.cup ↗organizer certificate · Nov ↗organizer certificate · Feb ↗Tulip Cup certificate ↗I was the lead organizer of the Shymkent Round on April 22–23, 2026, hosted at NIS Shymkent: 205+ participants and 25 volunteers. I negotiated a $6 participation fee with the organizers.
WSC calendar ↗host certificate ↗I was elected Minister of Finance of my school's student parliament for 2025–26 and managed about 500,000 KZT (~$1,000) across 13 school events.
As CMO of ApplyCompass.app, a free platform of student competitions and programs, I brought in 500+ users through AI-made Instagram and TikTok content.
Entrepreneurship Bootcamp, 2025: full $2,495 scholarship; my team placed 1st of 80 in the startup tournament.
Guitar · gymnastics · running · painting
I’ve been teaching myself electric guitar since grade 8. I play almost every day, mostly for myself, and my school now invites me to perform at events.
I did five years of men's artistic gymnastics with a focus on pommel horse: Kazakhstan Adult Class III sports rank, 3rd place at the national championship, five regional golds.
I finished the Shymkent Marathon half-marathon (21.1 km) in September 2025.
Awards, with links to the sources
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