# Almas Mirzakhmetov

> Senior Software Engineer and AI Researcher specializing in AI-driven solutions, web development, NLP, and product engineering.

## About

Almas Mirzakhmetov is a senior software engineer with over 10 years of experience building web products used by real people every day. Currently working at SQUID App, focusing on AI-driven solutions. Previously contributed to AI research at ISSAI, Nazarbayev University (2019–2021), co-authoring papers on Kazakh speech processing, epidemiological modeling, and medical AI. Based in Kazakhstan.

## Education

- Bachelor's in Applied Mathematics and Informatics — Peoples' Friendship University of Russia (PFUR / РУДН), Moscow
- Master's in Applied Mathematics — National Research Nuclear University MEPhI (МИФИ), Moscow

## Research & Publications

Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=31bOjskAAAAJ

Research conducted at the Institute of Smart Systems and Artificial Intelligence (ISSAI), Nazarbayev University, Kazakhstan.

### Paper 1: A Crowdsourced Open-Source Kazakh Speech Corpus and Initial Speech Recognition Baseline
- Authors: Y. Khassanov, S. Mussakhojayeva, A. Mirzakhmetov, A. Adiyev, M. Nurpeiissov, H.A. Varol
- Venue: EACL 2021 (16th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics)
- Topic: Largest open-source Kazakh speech database — 332 hours, 153,000+ utterances. 2.8% CER, 8.7% WER baseline.
- Links: https://aclanthology.org/2021.eacl-main.58/ | https://arxiv.org/abs/2009.10334

### Paper 2: KazakhTTS: An Open-Source Kazakh Text-to-Speech Synthesis Dataset
- Authors: S. Mussakhojayeva, A. Janaliyeva, A. Mirzakhmetov, Y. Khassanov, H.A. Varol
- Venue: INTERSPEECH 2021
- Topic: First large-scale open-source Kazakh TTS dataset — 93 hours, 2 professional speakers. MOS above 4.0.
- Links: https://arxiv.org/abs/2104.08459 | https://github.com/IS2AI/Kazakh_TTS

### Paper 3: A Network-Based Stochastic Epidemic Simulator: Controlling COVID-19 With Region-Specific Policies
- Authors: A. Kuzdeuov, D. Baimukashev, A. Karabay, B. Ibragimov, A. Mirzakhmetov, M. Nurpeiissov, M. Lewis, H.A. Varol
- Venue: IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics (JBHI), Vol. 24, No. 10, 2020
- Topic: Network-based SEIR epidemic simulator for region-specific COVID-19 policy evaluation.
- Links: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32749979/ | https://github.com/IS2AI/COVID-19-Simulator

### Paper 4: End-to-End Deep Diagnosis of X-ray Images
- Authors: K. Urinbayev, Y. Orazbek, Y. Nurambek, A. Mirzakhmetov, H.A. Varol
- Venue: IEEE EMBC 2020 (42nd Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society)
- Topic: End-to-end deep learning framework for automated X-ray diagnosis. DenseNet-121 with 0.91 accuracy and Grad-CAM interpretability.
- Links: https://arxiv.org/abs/2003.08605 | https://github.com/IS2AI/Chest-X-ray-module

## Research Themes

- Kazakh language processing (ASR, TTS) for low-resource languages
- Medical AI and deep learning for diagnostic imaging
- Epidemiological modeling and public health simulation

## Technical Expertise

- **Frontend**: React, TypeScript, Next.js, Tailwind CSS
- **Backend**: Python, PHP, Node.js
- **Databases**: PostgreSQL, MongoDB
- **Cloud**: AWS
- **AI/ML**: LLM integration, AI-powered product development, prompt engineering, speech processing, NLP

## Services & Availability

Almas is available for:

- **AI Integration Consulting** — helping teams adopt LLMs and AI tools into their products and workflows
- **Full-Stack Web Development** — end-to-end product development from architecture to deployment
- **Technical Architecture** — system design, scalability planning, and tech stack decisions
- **AI Research Collaboration** — NLP, speech processing, and applied ML for low-resource languages
- **Freelance & Contract Work** — open to interesting projects involving AI, web platforms, or developer tools

## Projects & Domains

- almas.dev — personal blog on software engineering, AI, and technology
- lumicente.co — AI-powered movie discovery
- getpactup.app — product project
- tisimai.app — product project

## Contact

- Email: kramal888@gmail.com
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mirzakhmetov/
- GitHub: https://github.com/kramal
- Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=31bOjskAAAAJ

## Languages

- English (fluent)
- Russian (native)
- Kazakh (native)

## Location

Kazakhstan (remote-friendly, open to international collaboration)