10 Kyrgyzstani citizens who work at their dream IT companies

Alya Rysbekova
Research Software Engineer at Google DeepMind. The only engineer on the team that created LearnLM — Google’s first AI tutor. The projects were presented at Google I/O in 2024 and 2025, and she is a co-author of three scientific papers. Before DeepMind, she worked at Bloomberg and IBM.

Zhanar Iskakova
QA Engineer at Apple — she has been with the company for over 12 years. One of the most experienced specialists on this list in terms of tenure at a single company. Before Apple, she tested mobile and web applications at several Silicon Valley startups.

Djanar Osmonaliev
Djanar is from Kyrgyzstan and started her career as a web developer in Bishkek. Currently, she is a Senior Software Engineer at Meta, working on AI agent products for Facebook. She built infrastructure for Meta AI in Menlo Park. She has been with the company for nearly four years, joining immediately after graduating from Stony Brook University.

Salamat Beibitov
Graduated from Kyrgyz National University and started his career at Intel. Currently, he is a Senior Software Integrity Engineer at Apple Pay — he has been with the company for nearly 11 years. He is responsible for the certification of NFC readers and the integration of Apple Pay and Wallet in the EMEA and APAC regions.

Bega Baitykova
Software Engineer at Microsoft CoreAI, working on AI infrastructure. She has been with the company for over seven years. Before Microsoft, she was an automation engineer at Facebook, where she tested the Oculus VR platform, and a robotics test engineer at Google. From Kyrgyzstan — through Facebook and Google — to the team building Microsoft’s AI infrastructure.

Talgat Marlis Uulu
Software Development Engineer II at Amazon. He has been with the company for nearly seven years, during which time he reduced the runtime of a predictive model from 20 hours to 20 minutes. He graduated from Bilkent University in Turkey on a full scholarship. In school, he received an honorable mention at the 53rd International Mathematical Olympiad (IMO) in Argentina.

Aigerim Beishenbekova
Software Engineer at Microsoft. Previously, she spent nearly four years developing Android applications at the Kyrgyz mobile operator O!. In 2019, she participated in the TechWomen program and interned at Google in Silicon Valley. She graduated from Hacettepe University in Ankara and participated in a research project on LTE energy efficiency supported by the Turkish Scientific and Technological Research Council (TÜBİTAK).

Nurbol Chorobaev
Nurbol graduated from the International University of Ataturk-Ala-Too in Bishkek. Currently, he is a Senior Android Engineer at Bolt. He started his career in Bishkek, developing mobile banking for Bay-Tushum Bank, and later worked at Alfa-Bank Kazakhstan and the Georgian company Sweeft Digital. He is a participant in the ACM ICPC and national programming olympiads.

Mussa Kozhomkulov
Principal Software Engineer at Microsoft — he has been with the company for nearly 15 years. He works on low-latency distributed NoSQL systems. Before Microsoft, he automated insurance processes at the Kazakh company Kazkommerts-Life.