Bekzat Nurlanbekova

Bio: Software engineer with 10 years of industry experience and a strong foundation in data science and machine learning. Interested in applying AI-driven methods to address real-world challenges in healthcare, public health, and decision-making systems.

Research

Contrastive Self-Supervised Learning for Retinal Fundus Image Classification

Monash University Malaysia

2025 – 2026

Designed a research pipeline comparing SimSiam and SimCLR across multiple augmentation strategies on medical imaging datasets (EDID, RetinaMNIST)
Ran model training and hyperparameter experiments on HPC GPU clusters using Weights & Biases for experiment tracking and result comparison

Experience & Education

Jul 2024 – Jun 2026

Master of Data Science

Monash University Malaysia

Data Wrangling · Machine Learning · Statistical Modelling · Data Visualisation (Tableau, R) · Big Data (Apache Spark)

Jan 2023 – Jul 2023

Scrum Master

Amdocs Inc. · Project: Veon Beeline Kazakhstan

Facilitated Agile/Scrum ceremonies and coordinated backlog prioritisation for a cross-functional team
Tracked sprint metrics to identify process bottlenecks and drive continuous delivery improvements

Jun 2022 – Jan 2023

Software Engineer

Amdocs Inc. · Project: Veon Beeline Kazakhstan

Developed and maintained REST APIs in Java, integrating with PostgreSQL and Couchbase
Deployed production changes via CI/CD pipelines to AWS Kubernetes in containerised (Docker) environments

Sep 2020 – Jun 2022

QA Automation Engineer

Amdocs Inc. · Project: Veon Beeline Russia

Developed Java-based regression test suites, reducing production defects by ~33% through improved test coverage and shift-left strategies

Jul 2015 – Sep 2020

Software Engineer

Amdocs Inc. · Project: Kcell Kazakhstan

Supported enterprise BSS modules (Customer Management, Billing, Accounts Receivable) for a platform serving 3M+ subscribers
Maintained 100% data accuracy on cross-system financial exports from Amdocs billing to SAP Finance through data profiling and mismatch analysis

May 2012 – Jul 2014

Software Developer

Lab of the Future LLC · Almaty, Kazakhstan

Built a web-based BI application for livestock monitoring deployed across 16 farms in South Kazakhstan, including reporting tools and data visualisation in Groovy

2009 – 2013

BSc Computer Systems & Software Engineering

IITU Kazakhstan

GPA 3.62 / 4.0