Alibek Utyubayev
Senior Data Scientist
Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
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Top SchoolAlibek Utyubayev is a Senior Data Scientist and AI leader with 11 years of experience building production ML and GenAI systems across banking, food delivery, consulting, and analytics. He has led end-to-end delivery of high-impact solutions—AML detection, compliance analytics, recommendations, and ETA optimization—translating business problems into measurable outcomes through modeling, experimentation, and cross-functional leadership. A former SAS analyst and McKinsey consultant, he combines rigorous analytical foundations with product-minded execution and experience scaling teams in the MENA region. Now at Emirates NBD at a Senior Director grade, he brings practical deployment know-how from roles at Careem and Arbuz.kz and a strong software/math background from Penn State. Notably, he moves comfortably between legacy analytics stacks and modern GenAI toolchains, making him effective at both modernization and immediate business impact.
11 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Republic Physics and Mathematics High SchoolBachelor of Science (BS), Mathematics and Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BS), Mathematics and Computer Science at Penn State UniversityNanodegree, Data Science, Nanodegree, Data Science at Udacity
Russian, Kazakh, EnglishGithub contributions (5)
alibekU/sales_forecast
Oct 2020 - Nov 2020
Contributions:63 commits, 41 pushes, 1 branch in 26 days
alibekU/movies_recommendations
Nov 2020 - Dec 2020
Contributions:52 commits, 36 pushes, 1 branch in 13 days
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