Hello👋, I'm Aknur

New York University Abu Dhabi

B.S. of Computer Science and Applied Mathematics

Relevant Coursework: Computer Systems Organization, Algorithms, Data Structures, Linear Algebra, Probability Statistics, Multi-variable Calculus, Discrete Mathematics

Stanford Pre-Collegiate Studies

Granted a full scholarship to attend the Pre-Collegiate program at Stanford University

Founder & FullStack Developer at Shopy

Shopy is a mobile CMS that allows to launch a personal storefront in 15 minutes. We help small business owners in Kazakhstan, who sell through Instagram, WhatsApp and TikTok, build an online store with up-to-date catalog, increase sales through repeat purchases, and identify the most popular products with build-in analytics.

- Conducted over 25 problem interviews with small business owners to identify their pain points

- Supervised and actively participated in the development of the mobile application for iOS and Android platforms

- Pitched at the demo-day of the ABC Incubation Program by NURIS

- Connected over 35 stores and reached an MRR of $900

React Native • Customer Development • Sales • Product Management

Frontend Engineer at One Technologies (Forte)

Subsidiary company of Forte - a leading bank in Kazakhstan

- Deployed an LDAP-authenticated peer-assessment platform utilizing asynchronous GraphQL requests, enabling HR department to survey over 530 employees across 20 teams

- Engineered an automated dynamic form system with PDF generation, reducing employee onboarding time from 2 days to 1 hour, replacing the previous manual paper-based process

- Collaboratively developed company's main website using Next.js for server-side rendering, yielding a notable increase in loading speed

React • Next JS • TypeScript • GraphQL • Strapi

Undergraduate Teaching Assistant

Mentored 9 teams with 25+ students of Computer Programming for Engineers class with term project development on C++ and Unity, conducting sessions to debug programs and explain key Computer Science concepts

C++ • Unity

Shopy Mobile App

Mobile CMS designed to empower small business owners in Kazakhstan who sell through Instagram, WhatsApp, and TikTok. With Shopy, you can launch your own personalized online store in just 15 minutes. Elevate your sales, enhance your catalog, and harness the power of built-in analytics to identify top-performing products.

React Native • Expo • Firebase Functions

Spotify Group Player

Full stack web application that lets users from various devices converge in a virtual room to collectively enjoy and control music streamed directly from the host's personal Spotify account.

Django • React • Webpack • Babel • Spotify API • SASS