Akezhan Rakishev
Software Engineer at Tesla
Fremont, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAkezhan Rakishev is a software engineer with 8 years of experience and a Master’s in Computer Science, currently working at Tesla in Fremont after an AI-focused internship there. He combines full-stack expertise with cloud-native architecture—AWS/GCP, Kubernetes, Terraform—and a strong background in CI/CD, observability, and high-performance backend systems. At EPAM he led teams to dramatically speed data loads, redesign frontends for modular development, and improve uptime via proactive monitoring, while earlier roles delivered large-scale consumer and gaming systems with millions of interactions. His master’s capstone builds a PaaS for text-to-image models, reflecting a practical focus on making generative AI deployments reproducible and self-serve for ML teams. Beyond product delivery he mentors and hires engineers, drives high test coverage, and enjoys competitive programming and cybersecurity, signaling both depth in systems and a penchant for rigorous problem-solving.
7 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Computer Science, Master's degree, Computer Science at San Francisco Bay UniversityHigh/Secondary School, Maths and Economics, High/Secondary School, Maths and Economics at Nazarbayev Intellectual SchoolBachelor's degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science at Nazarbayev University
Russian, Kazakh, English
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Github Skills (37)
mongoose10
seed9
python9
ruby9
csharp9
php9
grpc9
cpp9
boilerplate8
crud8
type-system8
objective-c8
nodejs7
typescript7
mailing7
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
Akezh/acmsc-v1
Dec 2018 - Sep 2020
Contributions:15 commits, 15 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 10 months
Akezh/akezh.me
Oct 2020 - Dec 2020
Personal Website
Contributions:41 commits, 3 PRs, 19 pushes in 2 months
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