Experience

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  Salesfinity

  • San Francisco, California, United States

  • Growth Associate

    • Apr 2024 - Present
    • San Francisco, California, United States

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  Silkroad Innovation Hub

  • Palo Alto, California, United States

  • Founder Of Student Community

    • Nov 2023 - Present
    • Palo Alto, California, United States

    • The Silkroad Innovation Hub is a SIlicon Valley-based startup/entrepreneurship hub for Central Eurasian founders working on global market.• Proudly in partnership with Silkroad Innovation Hub and its visionary co-founders I'm a head of Central Eurasian CS students in the USA working on promoting leadership, entrepreneuship, and innovation. • Our grassroots initiative aimed at uniting students hailing from Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Tajikistan, Azerbaijan, Turkey, Mongolia, and beyond, who are pursuing their passion for Computer Science at major US universities. • Our primary mission is to foster a close-knit community, providing a platform for collaboration, knowledge-sharing, and mutual support.•We brought together 100+ students from universities like Harvard, Yale, UIUC, MIT, Berkeley, Princeton and more.

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  Zero2One VC

  • Urbana-Champaign Area

  • Incubator Operations Executive

    • Feb 2024 - Apr 2024
    • Urbana-Champaign Area

    • Zero2One is a student-led VC and Incubator for early-stage startups.• I'm an executive within the incubator team and responsible for guiding and nurturing startups through our 9-week program.• Through mentorship, strategic advice, and operations support, our team plays a crucial role in fostering the growth and development of the incubated companies, contributing to the overall success of our entrepreneurial ecosystem.

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  wedevx.co

  • Chicago, Illinois, United States

  • Growth Intern

    • May 2023 - Mar 2024
    • Chicago, Illinois, United States

    • WEDEVX is an early stage VC-backed edTech startup company. My responsibility was to automate CRM processes within the sales department. • When I joined the company it was mainly B2C. I worked on expanding our B2B network by connecting with universities, coding bootcamps, researching the B2B market by proposing our unique end-to-end coding platform for their user base.• Within a few months I helped to acquire more than 100 customers as well as multiple business partners and closed deals for $200,000. Worked closely with the co-founders and learned a lot about running a startup/fundraising.

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  University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

  • Urbana-Champaign Area

  • Undergraduate Research Assistant

    • Dec 2023 - Feb 2024
    • Urbana-Champaign Area

    • I work on one of my Data Science professor's undergraduate research project• Conduct market research of emerging generative AI technologies;• Co-create synthesized analysis of the new technologies, in terms of its market and research value;• Interpret the industry solutions through the lens of scholarly literature;• Contribute the findings to a github for public access.• Learn how to evaluate generative AI solutions using HCI research methods;• Build up a professional profile by contributing to a github repository;• Develop knowledge in the field of generative AI;• Identify the most interesting topic to work on with the SALT lab researchers or other labs in future.

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  Archicoin

  • Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan

  • Summer Internship

    • May 2021 - Aug 2021
    • Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan

    • Archicoin is an early-stage B2B marketplace-startup company (that was later acquired by Shoro.kg, the biggest consumer-based company in Kyrgyzstan).• My primary responsibility was customer acquisition by having 1:1 outreach to our target audience (grocery stores, markets) and proposing them a new way of ordering products through Azyk Store app.• Helped to acquire 100+ new business-users.