about

i build products and communities where technology meets human flourishing.

currently building in AI for education and health, grounded in a decade of product work and research in AI and in electronics. i've commercialized research twice, shipped products to 30M+ users.

i've spent equal time building infrastructure for others: led MIT's Brazil incubator, established hackathons and accelerators in Kazakhstan, brought startup ecosystems to underserved regions.

the pattern: notice what's missing, explore it deeply, build it, then open the path for others. the work is as much about wellbeing and community as it is about code and metrics.

selected projects (more coming soon)
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AI career mentor for professional growth & mobility
for Workera, Andrew Ng's company
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voice AI agents & studio for healthcare operations & patient engagement
for RadiantGraph, deployed at CVS & Blue Shield
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voice AI assistant & developer platform for audio wearable
for iyo, Google X spinoff, presented at TED
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AI empathy coach for physicians & enterprise teams
for Medship & Project US, deployed at Weill Cornell Medicine & MIT
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wearable anxiety tracker & companion app
for Ed Boyden's Neuroengineering class at MIT
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spatial design patterns & biofeedback research
for Martin Bechthold's class at Harvard Graduate School of Design
experience
Workera, San Francisco, CA
lead product manager | 2025
AI skills intelligence & learning platform for Fortune 500s and governments.
RadiantGraph, San Francisco, CA
head of product | 2024 - 2025
voice AI agents and personalization for healthcare engagement.
iyo (Google X spinoff), San Francisco, CA
senior product manager | 2023 - 2024
audioOS platform for AI audio wearable.
projectus.ai, Cambridge, MA
co-founder & product lead | 2021 - 2023
AI coach for emotional intelligence.
MIT Media Lab & Weill Cornell Medicine, Cambridge, MA
graduate researcher | 2021 - 2023
AI empathy models for mental health applications.
MIT Sloan School of Management, Cambridge, MA
teaching assistant | 2021 - 2022
assisted Innovating for Impact course.
Impact Hub, EMEA
design consultant | 2019 - 2021
designed accelerator programs for Central Asian social entrepreneurs.
POWR, San Francisco, CA
growth product manager | 2019 - 2021
Shopify app ecosystem, 10M+ users, acquired by Pluribus.
Pinemelon, Kazakhstan & Denver, CO
founding product manager | 2017 - 2019
sustainable online grocery, 0→300 daily orders.
s.me Kazakhstan
co-founder | 2017 - 2018
smart metering for residential energy.
Kapchagay Solar Power Plant, Kazakhstan
electrical engineering intern | 2014 - 2015
power electronics for utility-scale solar.
Power Electronics Research Lab at NU
undergraduate researcher | 2014 - 2016
sustainable power systems research.
education
research & writing

research

integrating technology into undergraduate medical education: can affective computing help teach empathy?
Academic Psychiatry, 2023
behavioral design for emotional intelligence: leveraging affective computing in medical education for improved care for substance use disorders
MIT thesis, 2023
novel voltage target ratios and minimal norm principle for reconfigurable multiphase single- and dual-output switched capacitor converters
IET power electronics conference, 2016

writing

why trust in AI isn't just an interface problem ℑ
AI for becoming better humans? ℨ
Gleick vs Harari ℳ
ask Claude to draw a self-portrait ℬ
the consumer AI event that wasn't ℌ
speaking & recognition

speaking

recognition

community
metaphysical musings bookclub
organizer | 2025 | San Francisco, CA
Silk Road Innovation Hub
mentor | 2023-2024 | Palo Alto, CA
Astana Hub
advisor | 2023-2024 | Kazakhstan
MISTI Brazil Healthtech Accelerator
mentor | 2022-2023 | Boston, MA - Brazil
MIT Global Startup Workshop
head of partnerships | 2022 | Boston, MA - Georgia
MIT Office of Innovation
program manager | 2022 | Boston, MA
Cross-University Startup Innovators mixer
organizer | 2022 | Boston, MA
Impact Hub
design consultant & mentor | 2020-2021 | EMEA
NU Hack
co-founder | 2016 | Kazakhstan
IET
chapter lead | 2016-2017 | Kazakhstan
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