ALMAS QYLYSHALMATY / KZ

Almas Qylysh

Almas Qylysh

Full-stack & AI engineer

Currently — Founding Engineer
at GOAT.AI.

01 Experience & journey

2021 — 2026
GOAT.AI2026 — present
Founding Engineer · since June 2026

GOAT.AI is a platform that turns developers’ sessions with AI coding agents into structured datasets for AI labs. It captures work in Claude Code, Codex, Cursor and Antigravity, preserving the sequence of steps an agent takes while working on a coding task.

The platform handles the full path from session capture to dataset preparation: collecting new sessions and importing history, encrypting raw traces, redacting personal information and removing duplicates. The resulting datasets contain agent trajectories from real development work.

Founding Engineer and the sole engineer at GOAT.AI. I designed, built and shipped the platform in under four months, from an empty repository to production. I continue to develop and operate it.

Architecture & operations
Development
600+ commits. A TypeScript, Python and Go monorepo with 9 apps and 24 packages. Built AI-natively with parallel Claude Code agents.
Ingestion
OpenTelemetry via Fastify HTTP and gRPC. BullMQ workers, with PostgreSQL, ClickHouse and Cloudflare R2 for storage.
Privacy
Per-project XChaCha20-Poly1305 encryption of raw traces in an isolated database. A default-deny PII-redaction service built with Presidio and spaCy.
Production
Hardened for bursty load with load shedding, admission control and separate live and backfill queues. Migrated infrastructure with zero downtime.
Khan Group2026
Frontend Engineer · Jan — Aug 2026

Built the new partner portal homepage for zapis.kz in Angular, giving partners a workspace to manage listings and bookings.

Angular
Kaspi Travel2024 — 2026
Frontend Engineer · Sep 2024 — Jan 2026

Worked on travel services within Kaspi.

  • Automated ticket exchanges, reducing manual work for the support team.
  • Built the tours reviews frontend from scratch: submissions, moderation states and ratings in search results and on hotel pages.
  • Shipped unaccompanied-minor and carry-on upsells on a shared purchase framework reused for later ancillary services. Added visa and entry-requirement checks before booking.
Pleep2024 — 2025
Full-Stack / AI Engineer · contract · Dec 2024 — Feb 2025

Built with reranking of retrieved results.

How RAG works

A prepared example using my profile.

CONTEXT

Pleep · 2024–2025. RAG development with reranking.

ANSWER

At Pleep, I built RAG with reranking.

An illustration of the principle, not the Pleep system.

Documentolog2024
Frontend Engineer · Apr — Sep 2024

Developed the CVHub frontend in React and TypeScript: features, interfaces and bug fixes. Improved initial load time through lazy loading and bundle optimisation. Worked with product and QA on forms and screens for the document management system.

React / Next.js / TypeScript / Material UI
Other experience2023 — 2024

RS School · mentor

JUL — SEP 2024

Mentored two React students through weekly code reviews and mock technical interviews. Both passed their final assessment on the first attempt.

Itransition

FEB — APR 2024

Built a greenfield React / NestJS app, a PostgreSQL schema and a REST API with role-based access. Set up Docker and CI/CD, cutting deployment time from about 25 to 6 minutes.

Cedra

NOV 2023 — APR 2024

Built an admin API and React dashboard for user management, with role-based access and audit logs for about 3,000 accounts. The system handled roughly 120 requests per second in load tests.

The beginning2021 →
  1. 2021–22

    Samsung Innovation Campus

    , algorithmic challenges and an Android project.

  2. 2022–23

    RS School

    The first two stages of the programme, followed by React, Next.js and a team-built GraphiQL Playground.

  3. 2023

    Selected among 100 participants from 4,200+ applicants and awarded a grant. Built Raisegram, a free platform for generating Instagram posts with GPT-3.5 and DALL·E. Designed the interface in Figma and built the frontend and backend with Next.js, NestJS, PostgreSQL and Prisma.

↑ ↓ select ↵ open
ALMAS / ROOMS

First boot

Found 0 / 3
A pixel-art room. Explore with arrow keys, WASD and E. The full story is also available in the experience section of the main page.

Turn on the three stations in order: input → process → output.

Holding —

Walk to a station or click it.

Controls & hints

Arrow keys / WASD to move. E / Enter to interact. P to pause. On mobile, tap an object or use the controls.

The rooms are fictional interpretations. The facts come from my profile.

Completed chapters and discoveries are saved in this browser.

Art: Kenney · CC0
ALMAS / PLAY

Signal

Route the signal through retrieval and context to the answer.

2024
Circuit 1 / 2Moves 0Best —
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01 retrieval02 context↻ click to rotate

Rotate the pieces. One completed circuit unlocks the Pleep entry.