About
I spent my late teens and early twenties studying and working in the UK and Boston. After coming back to Kazakhstan, I worked across marketing, analytics, and product for a few early-stage companies. At some point, I got tired of not being able to build things myself, so I learned to code and started building.
Building
A small, free Markdown viewer for Apple silicon Macs. My coding agents hand me Markdown files all day, and I wanted something that just opens one, shows it properly, and gets out of the way. It is read-only, it renders Mermaid diagrams offline, and it has no editor, no account and no telemetry.
source and download on github →An open-source desktop agent that lives on your computer. You talk to it naturally and it works across apps and files, carries multi-step tasks through from start to finish, and remembers how you work. Safety rules are enforced in code, outside the model. The public repo is coming soon.
An assistant I built and actually live inside: persistent memory, files, tasks, and fully local voice transcription, with hard safety rails. It runs my day, and it’s where most of my opinions about practical AI come from.
I’m exploring a few ideas as I learn: a tool for researching businesses, a voice-based task manager, and a simple note-taking app.
Used AI video and sound tools to bring one of my father’s songs to life. It went viral locally in Kazakhstan.
Writing
I build things with AI and I’m organising applied AI meetups in the North East, so I wanted to explain why I’m for it.
Twelve years after my first Durham startup fell apart for lack of an engineer, I’m going back for postgraduate study…
On coming back to the startup world with the engineering skills I wish I had when I was twenty.
Outside of work
During my undergraduate years, I was pretty serious about freerunning. I trained with parkour communities around Newcastle and Middlesbrough and once got to train with STORROR. It was a big part of my life at the time.
I started playing drums and guitar in high school. At Durham, I played in a jazz band and performed live at Fishtank.
I have also always been into film and the way things are shot. I used to edit videos and do special effects as a hobby, and I filmed a few music videos for a UK rapper. I still pay probably too much attention to lighting, framing, pacing, and atmosphere. Some of my favourites are 2001: A Space Odyssey, Ex Machina, Into the Wild, and Tarkovsky’s Stalker.
I was also a pretty serious PC gamer for a long time. A lot of hours disappeared into Steam, Discord, custom PC builds, and online games. Team Fortress 2 was probably the game I spent the most time playing. Honestly, a lot of my interest in technology probably started from gaming.