Olzhas Kaiyrakhmet
Chief Technology Officer at Raccoon AI
Kazakhstan
Summary
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Top SchoolOlzhas Kaiyrakhmet is a Chief Technology Officer and distributed systems engineer with 10 years of experience building high-consistency storage, real-time replication, and database technologies across industry and academia. His work spans research-grade systems—publishing a USENIX FAST paper on an LSM-based key-value store for non-volatile memory—to production services at ByteDance and Motional focused on storage migration and highly distributed NoSQL systems. He has hands-on experience with lock-free data structures, memory reclamation, and routing policy engineering from roles at 4PSA and Arista, and has founded a hardware/software startup for smart door systems. Now leading technology at Raccoon AI from Kazakhstan, he blends deep systems research with pragmatic engineering to ship scalable cloud-native storage solutions. Colleagues know him for turning novel research ideas into measurable performance wins (2x improvements in his academic prototype) and for navigating the bridge between low-level systems and product-grade distributed services.
10 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Computer Science, Master's degree, Computer Science at Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology
English, Russian, Kazakh, Turkish
Github Skills (30)
benchmark10
marshalling10
async10
protocol-buffers10
tostring10
leveldb10
serialization10
protoc10
rpc10
aio10
dpdk10
protobuf10
server-side10
key-value9
seastar9
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
olzhabay/SLM-DB
Sep 2017 - Sep 2019
Contributions:2 PRs, 40 pushes, 3 branches in 1 year 11 months
indexingdatabasekey-value-storestoragekey-value
olzhabay/dotfiles
Jul 2019 - Mar 2025
Contributions:4 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 9 months
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