Summary
Baltabek Bekenov is a CEO and product design leader with 10+ years in IT and 17 years of broader industry experience, currently leading uxlab.tech to improve CX/UX for Kazakhstani and Central Asian companies. He blends hands-on product design, research and front-end engineering—having started as a UI/front-end developer and later leading design teams at Alfa-Bank and Kazdream—to rapidly validate and scale digital products. He has built design organizations, introduced New Product Development processes, and coached teams and specialists to raise design maturity across companies. A pragmatic founder who still codes, Baltabek pairs a programmer’s curiosity with a designer’s empathy to solve customer pain points quickly. His experience includes organizing large culture-building events and educational programs, revealing a knack for people development and internal communication that complements his product work. Based in Astana, he focuses on practical, research-driven UX improvements that deliver measurable business outcomes.
10 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Specialized secondary education, Computer technology and automated systems, Specialized secondary education, Computer technology and automated systems at Polytechnic College of Astana
Русский, Английский