Middle Applied AI & Backend Engineer
CS undergraduate at American University of Central Asia, class of 2027
ICPC NERC Finalist x2 | RuCode 2024 Finalist
Currently working at Froxy Labs

CS student at AUCA and backend/AI developer. I work at Froxy Labs on automation systems that actually ship RAG pipelines, LangChain/LangGraph, app store workflows. Also spent a year working on Rspamd's C/Lua codebase. Competed in ICPC twice, made NERC both times.

Languages: C++, Python, Go, C, Lua
AI / ML: LangChain, RAG architectures, NLP, ML pipelines, IPA
Backend: FastAPI, Django, Gin, gRPC, REST, JWT, Swagger
Databases: PostgreSQL, MySQL, Redis
Cloud & Infra: AWS, Amazon EKS, Docker, CI/CD, Linux
Testing: RobotFramework, Python test utilities
Other: OpenSSL, algorithms, systems programming

Froxy Labs — Middle Applied AI & Backend Engineer (May 2026 – present)
Building AI-assisted automation systems using NLP, RAG, LangChain, and IPA to streamline mobile app publishing workflows for App Store Connect and Google Play Console. Responsibilities include system architecture, compliance-focused features, performance optimization, and SaaS product development.

RSPAMD LTD — C/Lua Software Engineer (Jan 2024 – Dec 2024)
Developed Lua plugins for replies and know_senders using Redis. Restructured the codebase for OpenSSL 3.0 support. Implemented a secretbox-based header encode/decode utility in C with a Python counterpart. Wrote Python tests with RobotFramework.

Extends GSD with rate-limit resilience, economy mode, and a feature workflow for Claude Code, Gemini CLI, and Codex. Implements 429 recovery with exponential backoff and multi-runtime hook wiring.
JavaScript, Node.js, Agents

rgsd is a fork of gsd-core that replaces the linear subagent model with an RLM (Recursive Language Model) inference loop — agents that can decompose problems by recursively calling themselves, rather than spawning one-shot leaf agents. JS, TS, Agents

A lightweight Telegram bot that receives release events from any CI/CD pipeline and posts formatted notifications to a configured Telegram channel — with a single curl call. Python, CI/CD, Docker

Contributions to a high-performance open-source spam filtering system.
C/C++, Lua, Redis, Docker, CI/CD

• Docker & Kubernetes: The Practical Guide — Udemy (Jun 2026)
• Redis for AI — Redis (May 2026)
• Neural Networks and Text Processing — Stepik (Mar 2026, with distinction)
• CCNA: Introduction to Computer Networks — Cisco (Dec 2025)
• Junior Cybersecurity Analyst — Cisco Networking Academy (Nov 2025)
• Certified Ethical Hacker (CEH) — Cisco Networking Academy (Nov 2025)
• Go: The Complete Guide — Udemy (Feb 2024)

• ICPC 2024 NERC Semifinal — 3rd Degree Diploma
• ICPC 2024 Quarterfinal — 2nd Degree Diploma
• ICPC 2023 Semifinalist
• RuCode 2024 — 2nd Degree Diploma

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