Anuar Ustayev
Technical Lead, Product at Datopian
Almaty, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolAnuar Ustayev is a Technical Lead with a decade of experience building data catalogs, open data portals and internal data management systems for governments, NGOs and enterprises. He has led and engineered national-level projects including data.gov (US), NHS and national electricity operators in the UK and Denmark, and contributed to deployments across North America, Europe, Singapore and the UAE. At Datopian he blends product leadership with hands-on full‑stack work, notably implementing a CKAN‑compatible portal frontend (portaljs) and driving data pipeline improvements for high-profile datasets like COVID-19 time series. His background spans startup founding and practical systems design—reimagining locker-based logistics for Central Asia—and a solid academic grounding from Warwick and Al‑Farabi. Known for shipping pragmatic, auditable solutions, he also co‑stewards CKAN and maintains active open‑source contributions that bridge frontend, APIs and data engineering.
10 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Technics and Technologies, Mathematical and Computer Modelling, Bachelor of Technics and Technologies, Mathematical and Computer Modelling at Al-Farabi Kazakh National UniversityMaster of Science - MS, Warwick Manufacturing Group (WMG), Master of Science - MS, Warwick Manufacturing Group (WMG) at University of Warwick
English, Russian, Kazakh, French
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Github Skills (33)
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data-pipelines10
python10
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data-engineering10
datasets10
data-transformation10
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aggregations10
front-end-development10
apollo-client10
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data-pipeline10
react10
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
datopian/portaljs
Jun 2020 - Feb 2022
🌀 Rapidly build feature-rich data portals using a modern frontend framework. CKAN compatible.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:1 release, 28 reviews, 119 commits in 1 year 8 months
Contributions summary:Anuar implemented the foundation for a data portal frontend using Next.js and React. Their contributions include setting up mocks and a configuration module, copying and adapting utility functions from a previous frontend version, and building the initial search page with essential components. They also created a stub for a dataset page and integrated the Apollo client for querying a CKAN API. Further development includes improvements on dataset page, and resource page.
next-generationdata-presentationdata-portal-frontendsdataportals
datasets/covid-19
Mar 2020 - May 2020
Novel Coronavirus 2019 time series data on cases
Role in this project:Data Engineer
Data EngineerContributions:59 commits, 10 PRs, 37 pushes in 1 month
Contributions summary:Anuar primarily focused on developing and refining data pipelines for the COVID-19 dataset. They implemented data transformations, aggregations, and schema updates using Python and the dataflows library. The user added new resources, pivoted data for easier visualization, and created aggregated datasets by country and worldwide. Additionally, they addressed data quality issues by specifying missing value properties and updated data sources.
casescoronavirus-diseasedatasetdata-packagenovel-coronavirus
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