Summary
Zumrat Kochshegulov is a Team Lead and backend engineer with 11 years of experience building and scaling distributed systems across startups and tech giants, currently leading a team at Yandex. He has shipped revenue-impacting features at TikTok, led end-to-end platform work and integrations at a Series A ecommerce startup, and built internal HR and monitoring systems at Amazon and SK Telecom. Comfortable across cloud, messaging (Managed Kafka), payments, and API design, he moves between hands-on coding and team leadership to deliver reliable production services. Based in Almaty, he blends rigorous engineering (BS in Computer Engineering, exchange studies in statistics) with a curious hobbyist streak—when not debugging he’s reading history books, a habit that informs his strategic, long-view approach to product and people.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST)
Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Engineering at Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology
Russian, English, Turkish, Korean, Kazakh