Anvar Khaliulin

Date of Birth: January 11, 1992. Kazakhstan, Pavlodar.Citizenship: Kazakhstan.

Strategy. Innovation. Successful Teams.

An experienced Chief Technology Officer (CTO) and leader with 14+ years in IT, including over 5 years in leadership roles. Specialized in digital transformation, building high-performing IT departments, and successfully implementing innovative solutions based on Artificial Intelligence (LLM/ML).

Possessing unique expertise: from leading large-scale digitalization projects in the public sector to creating proprietary, commercially successful AI products. Strong technical foundation in software development, network architecture, and Information Security.

My Mission: To transform strategic vision into working, scalable, and profitable technological solutions.

Key Skills and Competencies

• Strategic Leadership: Project Management (Agile, Scrum), reforming IT departments into profitable centers, technical leadership.
• Artificial Intelligence: Implementation of LLM models, semantic model development, ML solutions, secure NLQ-SQL.
• Digital Transformation: Experience working with Akimats (local administrations) and government bodies, implementing large-scale HWC (Hardware-Software Complexes).
• Technical Expertise: Full-Stack development (Python, FLASK, JS), Information Security (OPNsense, Cisco, Mikrotik), network architecture.
• Education: Bachelor of Information Technology in Economics (AESA). Additional: Project Management, Data Analytics and Visualization, Information Security.
• Languages: Russian (Native), English (B1/B2 - reading technical literature, dialogue), Kazakh (B2).

Work Experience

Aru Lab - Chief Technology Officer, Founder (AI/LLM Solutions)

September 2025 - Present | Almaty (Freelance/Proprietary Projects)

Founding and leading a proprietary AI laboratory focused on developing B2B and B2C products based on LLM and semantic models. Managing the full development and commercialization cycle.

Key Results

• Generated revenue of over 4,000,000 KZT in the first few months by executing custom automation, education, and marketing projects via exchanges and Reddit. Implemented proprietary projects.
• Created three main products currently supported as open source or provided as commercial services.
• Implemented a secure architecture (local SQLite data storage) for the personal assistant Aru Ai, ensuring user confidentiality.

Main Products:

• Aru Ai - a personal AI assistant with a semantic model and secure data storage.
• Aru CMS- a content management system with onboard AI, three-language support, and analytics.
• Promptly - a system for creating smart Telegram bots with mini-CRM functionalities.

Atlantys - Head of Development Group

May 2025 - September 2025 | Almaty

Technical leadership and key development for the critically important custom project Myna.

• Significantly accelerated document processing in the organization (multi-fold increase) by implementing the Myna project.
• Ensured 24/7 operational access to final documents via a data collector in Telegram, which increased decision-making speed.

• Responsible for the full development cycle and team coordination.
• Stack Used: Python, FLASK, HTML, CSS, JS, Gemini API.

IT Consulting - Chief Independent Consultant (IT Transformation)

July 2024 - February 2025 | Astana

Independent consulting for a major holding company aimed at complete transformation of the IT department and improvement of operational efficiency. Project completed 100% ahead of schedule.

• Achieved savings of approximately 50,000,000 KZT by implementing cost-effective and efficient solutions in network security (OPNsense instead of expensive commercial firewalls) and utilizing Mikrotik for remote offices.
• Created a fault-tolerant and secure network infrastructure, connecting remote offices to the Cisco core via IPSec tunneling.
• Reformed the IT department, transforming it from a mere support unit into a center generating business value (Business Value IT).

• Team Reform and Rotation: Full reform of the IT department, including function expansion and employee rotation.
• Process Management: Implementation of SCRUM methodology and improvement of cross-functional interaction.
• Digitalization: Implementation of pilot AI solutions and network architecture modification.

BATYR-Pavlodar LLP - Head of IT Department / Division

June 2023 - July 2024 | Pavlodar

Responsible for strategic management of IT infrastructure, establishing the IT department from scratch, its subsequent reorganization into a Division, and converting it into a commercial unit.

• Saved over 140,000,000 KZT in the first year by eliminating expensive service providers, taking network maintenance in-house, and implementing OPNsense.
• Created the IT department practically from scratch, expanded it to a Division, and transformed it into a profitable structure generating revenue through IT solutions in entertainment and servicing neighboring holding organizations.
• Ensured uninterrupted and efficient operation of the entire IT infrastructure of a large enterprise.

• IT Infrastructure: Ensuring uninterrupted operation and local network administration.
• Team Management: Leading and developing the IT team.
• Automation and Processes: Implementation of ITSM elements and analytical support for automation projects.
• Information Security: Ensuring IS at the network architecture level.

Leadership Positions in IT and Digitalization (Public and Corporate Sector)

Previous experience, from September 2013 to July 2023.

Managing IT departments, implementing large-scale digitalization projects, and reforming departments in the public sector (Akimats, Prosecutor's Office) and the quasi-state company SmartErtis.

• Significantly increased the speed of management decision-making by the regional administration (from a monthly cycle to same-day decisions) by implementing the SmartErtis Situational Center HWC.
• Centralized data analytics and visualization, consolidating metrics and indicators from all regional departments, divisions, and Akimats into a single real-time system.

• Regional Digitalization: Successful leadership and implementation of the SmartErtis Situational Center HWC.
• Department Reform: Reorganization of IT departments into successful and productive teams.
• Infrastructure and Security: Implementation and configuration of solutions for ensuring information security (Cisco Firewall).

About Me

According to the PAEI test, I am a Producer - link. Career-wise, it's difficult to fit my life journey into a short resume without two pages of technologies, stack, methodologies, vendors, and protocols. This resume reflects the key moments, and that is what matters. Besides work, I engage in music, write a book, and love traveling around Kazakhstan. I practice athletics. I am not afraid of complex challenges and know how to take responsibility. The collective and the team are always my top priority. 

Individuals and interactions over processes and tools.Working software over comprehensive documentation.Customer collaboration over contract negotiation.Responding to change over following a plan