Summary
Azamat Smagulov is a software engineer with 8 years of experience building backend and full-stack systems across startups and tech companies, currently contributing at Prog.AI from Almaty, Kazakhstan. He has held hands-on roles from engineering internships to CTO at SmarTestPrep, giving him a rare blend of product-level ownership and deep implementation experience. His background includes data-heavy work at Yelp (ads and reporting), robotics and real-time video processing using ROS/OpenCV, and Android performance optimizations from internships at NAVER and others. Comfortable in Python, SQLAlchemy, Docker, React and embedded C/C++, he repeatedly tackles cross-stack problems like database refactors, batch scheduling, and video processing pipelines. Colleagues would note his pattern of moving between research prototypes and production systems, turning experimental algorithms into maintainable services. He studied computer science at KAIST and brings an engineering curiosity that surfaces in projects spanning autonomous robotics to ad-tech reporting.
8 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Semey Kazakh-Turkish High School
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science at Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology
English, Kazakh, Russian, Korean