Zhanibek Datbayev
CTO, Co-Founder at Nace AI
Palo Alto, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolZhanibek Datbayev is a CTO and co-founder based in Palo Alto with a decade of experience building large-scale AI and personalization systems. He led foundational deep learning infrastructure and production ML platforms at Facebook, then scaled optimization and annotation pipelines for enterprise process mining at Celonis. Earlier, as a founding engineer at ipsy he engineered a personalization stack that grew from 10k to over 2M users and applied large-scale mixed integer programming to real business constraints. His technical breadth spans ML modeling, optimization (Gurobi, SCIP), large-scale feature pipelines and deep learning frameworks, plus low-level systems work in C++/Java from his Google internships. Now steering Nace AI, he blends hands-on engineering with product-facing AI strategy—an operator who moves models from research to production at enterprise scale. An understated strength is his history of architecting both bespoke optimization solutions and general-purpose ML infra, enabling measurable business impact.
9 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Lyceum N8Information Systems, Information Systems at Kazakh British Technical UniversityMaster’s Degree Computer Science, Master’s Degree Computer Science at Purdue University
Russian, Kazakh, English
Github Skills (35)
kubernetes10
python10
acceleration10
machine-learning10
numpy10
deep-learning10
tensorflow10
segmentation10
gpu10
autograd10
neural-network10
visual-recognition10
tensor10
gpu-acceleration10
face-detection9
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
itomatik/problem_solving
Oct 2016 - Nov 2016
Contributions:6 pushes, 1 branch, 1 comment in 28 days
itomatik/d2go
Sep 2022 - Oct 2022
D2Go is a toolkit for efficient deep learning
Contributions:5 pushes, 2 branches in 24 days
pytorchcaffe2mxnetdeep-learningmachine-learning
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