The engineer behind the map
I decided the maps we use every day in Kazakhstan deserved a native intelligence — not a search box bolted onto a database. So I built one.
Trajectory
Founder & Core Engineer · Botagoz AI
Designing and building an AI-native alternative to 2GIS from the ground up — architecture, data pipelines, interface and the Gemini reasoning core.
Senior Product Designer · Independent
Led end-to-end product design for data-heavy tools, pairing systems thinking with high-craft motion and interaction detail.
Full-stack Engineer · Various studios
Shipped web platforms on Node.js and TypeScript, obsessing over performance budgets and clean, typed architecture.
Hard skills
AI & Data
- Gemini API
- Prompt architecture
- RAG pipelines
- Vector search
- Geo-inference
Backend
- Node.js
- Antigravity buses
- PostgreSQL
- Redis
- REST / streaming
Frontend
- Next.js
- TypeScript
- Framer Motion
- Tailwind CSS
- Design systems
Product & Design
- Interaction design
- Information architecture
- Prototyping
- Motion craft
- UX writing
Operating principles
Uncompromising honesty
Honesty in code and architectural metrics comes first. No hidden magic, no inflated numbers — the system reports what it actually does.
AI-native by default
Intelligence is a first-class citizen, not a feature. Gemini sits at the core as a native embedded brain, not a bolted-on API call.
Complex APIs, seamless UX
Behind every clean interface is a hard integration: cartography keys, reactive data buses and custom geo pipelines woven together.
Reject template thinking
If a problem has an obvious template answer, it deserves a second look. Real leverage lives in the architecture nobody copied.
Ship production, not demos
Every line is written to survive real traffic. No TODOs, no lorem ipsum, no "rest of the code here" — the whole file, every time.