Summary
Alibek 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.
10 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