Yeldos Balgabekov is a pragmatic software engineer with 10 years of cross-domain experience, currently building at Amazon Web Services and blending product-minded engineering with strategic leadership. He pairs a strong academic foundation (MSc in Computer Science, University of Southampton) and startup founder experience with hands-on skills across web apps, ML, data mining, and scalable backend systems. As co-founder and CEO of an edtech startup he shipped a Django-based LMS and ran customer-driven product development, while earlier finance roles honed his ability to translate business requirements into automated, high-impact solutions. At AWS he brings that mix of long-term strategy and bias for action to deliver customer-oriented products at scale. He’s comfortable across stacks and paradigms—front-end React work and big-data/multithreading projects sit alongside ML and computer vision experience—making him effective at bridging research, engineering and product. An understated strength is his history of leading cross-functional teams and converting domain knowledge (finance, education, CS) into practical, measurable outcomes.
10 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Computer Science, Master's degree, Computer Science at University of Southampton
Economics, 3.5/4, Economics, 3.5/4 at SDU, Almaty
High school, Maths and Physics, High school, Maths and Physics at National School of Phisics and Maths for Gifted Children named after Zhautykov (РФМШ)
Programming, Apple Developer, Programming, Apple Developer at Makeschool, San-Francisco
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Yeldos Balgabekov - Software Engineer at Amazon Web Services (AWS)