Kazakhstani IT mentors who turn you into in-demand professionals

Asem Bolatzhan, @assem.bolatzhan
Founder of the Women in Tech Kazakhstan and Qazaq IT Community associations. Women in Tech Kazakhstan is a group of female leaders working in the IT industry and engaged in major technology projects.

Zhanara Izimova, @zhanara.izimova
Zhanara Izimova is the founder of the First Finance School, a mentor supporting girls and women through the Technovation and Techgirls programs, and also the curator of the AuroraTechAwards women's startups program.

Dara Tumenbaeva, @okdara
Kazakhstani entrepreneur and IT specialist. Dara Tumenbaeva previously worked as a developer at Amazon and is currently the founder of the Doro.ai startup. She is also an ambassador for the Techie Ladies Kazakhstan community.

Askar Aytov, @askarai_
Coordinator of the Google for Developers and Google for Startups programs for Central Asia and Mongolia. The first Program Manager at Google for Central Asia. Author of the Products Central Asia course.

Zhanar Makhambetova, linkedin
Zhanar Makhambetova is the CMO of Yandex Cloud Kazakhstan & CIS. She engages in mentoring and participates in programs where she shares her experience with other professionals.

Aliya Marova, linkedin
Entrepreneur and specialist in the field of human capital development. Aliya Marova is a certified business coach and startup tracker.

Botagoz Zhumanova, linkedin
Author of the Be-A-Trainer program at the Bureau of the National Chamber of Entrepreneurs of Kazakhstan. Partner of the Human Capital business incubator. Mentor trainer, trainer-methodologist, and author of her own courses and programs on financial and investment literacy.

Timur Bektur, @timurbektur
Timur has over 15 years of experience in the IT industry. He is an expert in the field of ChatGPT and the author of educational courses in the field of information technology.

Yerbolat Mamen, @yerbolat.mamen
Kazakhstani IT mentor. Founder of Qazaqsoft, a company that develops mobile applications and websites.

Karina Lyan, @karina_lyan
IT specialist, blogger, mentor, and team lead. Develops areas of development and testing. Founder of the Test.IT bootcamp in the fields of testing, frontend and backend development, and automation.

Mereke Baltabay, @ne_mentor
IT mentor with eight years of development and teaching experience. Shares knowledge and inspiration in the world of technology. Mereke conducts individual training courses, has a work plan and several methodologies, which are selected together.

Ruslan Khuzin, @bayradion
Ruslan Khuzin is an IT mentor, founder of the Reart.ai company, and an indie developer. He implements deep IT ideas and shares this process.