Alibek Datbayev
Technology Advisor at Hero's Journey
Randstad, Netherlands
Summary
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Top SchoolAlibek Datbayev is a technology advisor and engineering manager with 11 years of experience building high-performing teams and production-grade platforms across startups and global companies. Currently at Booking.com he leads multi-team efforts in AI Platform engineering, delivering distributed multi-cloud model serving that handles 400B+ predictions monthly and architecting company-wide generative AI and safety guardrails. He combines hands-on engineering (Java, Python, Kubernetes, microservices) with organizational leadership—having built four teams from scratch, conducted 100+ interviews, and scaled product-platform initiatives like Booking Assistant. As co-founder of the Kazakhstan Competitive Programming Federation he shapes the competitive programming ecosystem, reflecting a long-standing commitment to developer talent and technical education. His early entrepreneurship and product roles—running an online retail business that generated $40k in six months and launching core services at food and ticket startups—give him a pragmatic, growth-oriented perspective. Based in the Randstad, he bridges strategic partnerships with major cloud and AI providers while keeping delivery cadence and team performance tightly aligned.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science, Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science at Kazakh-British Technical University
English, Russian, Kazakh
Github Skills (49)
algorithm10
algorithms10
fundamentals10
c-programming10
coding10
data-structures10
science10
computer-science10
ruby8
jekyll8
markdown8
mysql7
monitoring7
blockchain7
elasticsearch6
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
datbayev/algo
Jun 2015 - Mar 2018
Contributions:509 commits, 430 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 10 months
chettam/compet-book
May 2021 - Jun 2021
Competitive programming - qazaqşa
Contributions:54 commits, 17 PRs, 54 pushes in 13 days
competitivedata-structurescompetitive-programming
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