Timur Toktassynov

Education

Master of Science in Software Systems Engineering
University College London (Sep 2020 - Sep 2021)

Core modules: Tools and Environments, Requirements Engineering, Validation and Verification, System Integration
Electives: Networked Systems, Information Retrieval and Data Mining
Courseworks:
- supporting name resolutions in DNS and avoiding overloads
- adjusting forwarding in LAN and fine-tuning routing in WAN
- improving test suite quality of Apache Commons Collection using mutation testing
- developed document ranking system based on BM25, vector space and language models
- implemented client-server banking application using design by contract concept in Python

Master of Science in Information Systems
Eurasian National University (Sep 2014 - Sep 2016) GPA - 3.71/4.0

Bachelor of Science in Information Systems
Kazakh-British Technical University (Sep 2008 - Sep 2012) GPA - 3.82/4.0

Activities: President of Intellectual-Debate Club, ACM ICPC quarterfinals participant

Skills

Technologies and frameworks: Java, Python, C++, SQL, HTML, CSS, Flask, JUnit, Git, Maven
Languages: English - fluent, Russian - fluent, Kazakh - native

Projects

IBM Node Red Quantum @ nodred_quantum (June 2021 - Aug 2021) Designed communication API between node’s runtime and editor that enabled correct configuration of core nodes, increased test coverage of the test suite by 25%

Technologies used: Qiskit, Python, Node Red, Node.js

Stock trading @ finance (Feb 2021 - Mar 2021) This web application enables users to query real-time stock quotes from iexapis API and trade them using virtual cash

Taught myself a flask framework and implemented user authorization as well as portfolio, transaction history, buy and sell views
Deployed this application to Heroku to serve requests via Gunicorn
Technologies used: Flask, HTML, CSS, Heroku, PostgreSQL, Gunicorn

Search Engine @ seach_engine (Apr 2020 - Apr 2020) This console application is a ranked boolean retrieval model, i.e. the matched documents are ranked according to sum of query terms frequencies

Decreased time complexity of search queries by 16 times via storing search results in vector instead of ordered map
Implemented multi-threading and maintained the index safe-thread via mutexes for database updates and search queries
Technologies used: C++, Inverted Index, Multithreading, Mutex

Bus Router @ transport_spr (Apr 2020 - Apr 2020) This application is able to store bus stops and routes and identify shortest trips, in terms of time

Refactored code to use JSON as inputs and represented nodes as subclass of variant to simplify readability and parsing
Taught myself about graphs and Dijkstra algorithm and constructed a graph based on bus routes and stop information
Technologies used: C++, JSON, Graph

Working Experience

Software Engineer @ Google (Sep 2022 - Present)

Software Developer @ InMusic Europe Ltd (Apr 2022 - Aug 2022)

Responsible for developing auto tests and performance tests

Intern Software Developer @ InMusic Europe Ltd (Sep 2021 - Present)

Decreased 6 system test execution time from 25 min to 22 sec by automating software regression tests using custom testing framework
Contributed to custom testing framework by factoring out common testing functions. Stack: Javascript, C++

Co-Founder @ Masterslova (Feb 2018 - Aug 2020) 16-hour public speaking course for entrepreneurs, managers

Problem-solving: Taught myself Wordpress and Search Engine Optimization and developed a website that reached 7000-page views in 6 months. This resulted to be ranked number 1 in google search for a set keywords
Organizational skills: arranged classes for student groups liaising with community coworkings. This resulted to 240+ trained students
Client service: exceeded monthly sales target by 3.5 times reaching 2700 USD in February 2020 through actively listening, responding quickly to needs of business clients
Technologies used: Wordpress, HTML, CSS, SEO
Information Technology Architect @ KazMunayGas Global Solutions B.V. (Sep 2016 - Jun 2017)
Delivered integration and configuration of corporate oil and gas accounting system for 200+ users, which led to decrease of production data discrepancy by 1.5%
The solution was awarded as Best IT project in Oil & Gas industry out of 100 projects according to GlobalCIO

Software Engineer @ KazMunayGas Exploration & Production JSC (Aug 2012 - Sep 2014)

Problem-solving: Taught myself C# and Microsoft Excel programming and implemented vehicle utilization reporting web application
Designed data warehouse in SQL Server by integrating GPS data, vehicle dispatch spreadsheet data
This solution has become standard in two dispatch centers overseeing 2000+ vehicles

Accomplishments

Received Chevening scholarship, as part of postgraduate study in UCL. Acceptance rate for this scholarship is about 2.5% out of 62 000 participants

Received honourable mention in 9th Asian Physics Olympiad, top 63 out of 136 participants

Won silver medal at 4th International Zhautykov Olympiad on Physics, top 20 out of 100 participants

Won silver medal at Republican Physics Competition, top 5 out of 340 participants

Volunteering

Team lead @ Food Poverty Hackathon (Sep 2020 - Sep 2020) Food Poverty Hackathon by UCL and Trussels Trust aiming to make food banks more accessible

Team work: lead a team of 9 students to design a prototype of mobile application to make food cooking easier for food bank receivers