Bolat Khojayev
Team Lead at Connectly.ai
Greater Vancouver Metropolitan Area Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolBolat Khojayev is a seasoned engineering leader and founder with 11 years of experience building AI-first products and startups, currently leading GenAI chatbot development at Connectly.ai. He combines hands-on software engineering experience from Amazon and research roles with entrepreneurial chops demonstrated by founding Zenshop and co-founding CovidImpact, a government-backed open-source platform that won the Code the Curve competition. Comfortable at the intersection of product, business, and engineering, he has repeatedly taken ideas from prototype to revenue-generating services for small businesses. Bolat also brings classroom and mentorship experience—teaching C++ to children and co-founding a crypto education startup—reflecting a passion for practical technical literacy. Based in Greater Boston, he blends enterprise-scale execution with startup agility and a proven record of driving measurable impact.
11 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science, Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science at The University of British Columbian&w s3, n&w s3 at buildspaceBachelor's degree, Business/Commerce, General, Bachelor's degree, Business/Commerce, General at UBC Sauder School of Business
English, Russian, Japanese, Kazakh
Github Skills (32)
substrate10
voting10
foundation10
decentralization10
blockchain10
polkadot10
ethereum9
newsapi8
bootstrap-vue7
mailchimp7
uncertainty6
to-do6
web-application5
face5
simulation5
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
LeetCoinCo/leetcoin-backend
Sep 2022 - Apr 2023
Contributions:28 pushes, 1 branch in 7 months
NoirKomBatman/w3f-Grants-Program
Sep 2022 - Feb 2023
Web3 Foundation Grants Program
Contributions:10 pushes in 4 months
grantsethereumblockchainweb3foundation
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