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Open to new-grad SWE / AI engineer roles · 2027

Bekbolsun
Samaganov

Software Engineer · AI agents · full-stack · systems

I build software that people can trust, including the guardrails around AI agents. I've shipped native apps, multi-tenant SaaS, and an agent authorization gateway, and my work is tested and documented.

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● live demo: what I build

Agents are powerful. I make them accountable.

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A recorded replay of IntentLock's real enforcement path. The digest is illustrative.
engineering & leadership roles
6
engineering & leadership roles
projects shipped or prototyped
14
projects shipped or prototyped
automated tests across projects
2,800+
automated tests across projects
certifications
10+
certifications
01

Experience

  1. Jun 2026 — Present current

    Software Engineer Intern · Keystone Tile

    Houston, TX

    Sole engineer for a natural stone & tile distributor (5 locations, founded 1995). Product owner and engineer across 7 internal tools.

    • Built Keystone Hub, a native SwiftUI app for iPhone, iPad and Mac (~34K lines of Swift, zero third-party packages). It gives showroom and warehouse staff offline search over a 4,362-product catalog.
    • Engineered offline-first sync with atomic, SHA-256-verified SQLite generations and one-click rollback, plus FTS5 search using weighted BM25 ranking and exact-SKU-first ordering.
    • Shipped on-device barcode, OCR and stone photo matching with Apple Vision under a strict confidence policy, covered by 105 XCTests and 62 in-app self-tests in GitHub Actions CI.
    • Built FieldOps, a field-sales platform (Django, Next.js, SwiftUI, Terraform/AWS), and a Next.js 16 website rebuild covering 1,764 products, 40 pages and 11 APIs, hardened with Zod, CSP and rate limits.
    • Automated product data sheets for 1,583 SKUs at 99.975% visual match (SSIM 0.9995), and label generators producing 826 QR cards with 0 scan failures.
    • Swift
    • SwiftUI
    • SQLite FTS5
    • Vision
    • Next.js
    • Django
    • Python
    • Terraform
    • AWS
  2. Aug 2024 — Present currentleadership

    Co-founder & President · KurultAi R&D Club

    Seattle, WA · Hybrid

    A student R&D club I co-founded to help students build real software and land engineering roles.

    • Grew the club to 30+ members through workshops, hackathons and mentorship in coding, problem solving and software development.
    • Secured partnerships with local tech companies and host career sessions with students who landed internships at companies like Visa, Shopify and Capital One.
    • The club also produced Hukm AI, a legal chatbot.
    • Leadership
    • Mentorship
    • Hackathons
    • Partnerships
  3. Jan 2025 — May 2026leadership

    Treasurer & Mentor · ACM @ North American University

    Stafford, TX

    Student chapter of the Association for Computing Machinery.

    • Built and deployed chapter website features with HTML5, APIs and automation.
    • Mentored 10+ students and led learning sessions for project-based learning. I founded and captained NAU's ICPC team, the NAU Stallions.
    • HTML5
    • APIs
    • Mentorship
  4. Mar 2022 — Jan 2023

    Front-End Developer Intern · Voyager Group

    Bishkek, KG

    Tour-booking platform serving destinations like the UAE, the Maldives and Thailand.

    • Built responsive booking interfaces with React and Bootstrap, and integrated REST APIs across search and reservation flows.
    • Built reusable UI components for mobile and desktop, and shipped in two-week Agile sprints with Git-based code review.
    • React
    • JavaScript
    • REST
    • Bootstrap
  5. Aug 2022 — Nov 2022

    Software Developer Intern · MitApp

    Bishkek, KG

    Mobile & web product studio.

    • Delivered React/Redux interfaces from Figma designs and integrated REST APIs.
    • Built Redux state management and a reusable component library, with unit tests and code reviews.
    • React
    • Redux
    • Next.js
    • Figma
  6. Mar 2022 — Nov 2022leadership

    Teaching Assistant · ZERO ONE

    Bishkek, KG

    Coding school. I was first a student in its front-end course (Feb–Aug 2022), then joined as a TA.

    • Guided aspiring developers through HTML, CSS, JavaScript and React with hands-on, real-world projects.
    • HTML
    • CSS
    • JavaScript
    • React
    • Teaching
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Projects

Founder project · built with a 20-agent team

Sep 2026 — Present

InvAI

An AI operations platform for DTF t-shirt print shops, built by an AI agent team I designed.

repos
8
repos
typed API procedures
258
typed API procedures
tests
~1.8k
tests
eval cases
133
eval cases
+Case study: problem, build, and caveats

Problem

Multi-marketplace print shops juggle orders from Etsy, Amazon, Shopify and TikTok Shop, plus gang sheets, labels and margins, across a dozen tools. I wanted to find out how far one engineer can go by directing a disciplined team of AI agents.

What I built

  • Designed the agent operating system: 20 roles, 72 playbooks, path-ownership enforced by hooks, independent review, and an integration gate before every push
  • Contract-first architecture: one typed oRPC/Zod package shared by the API, the dashboard and an offline-first tablet app across 8 repos
  • Postgres row-level-security multi-tenancy (88 policies), a transactional outbox, and crash-safe exactly-once side effects for labels and purchase orders
  • A Claude business-analyst agent with read-only tools, a 10-round loop cap, spend checks, a tool-output-is-data boundary, and an eval harness

Honest note: Agents wrote most of the code under my architecture, gates and review. It isn't deployed yet and has no pilot customers yet.

  • TypeScript
  • Node 24
  • Hono
  • oRPC
  • PostgreSQL 17
  • BullMQ
  • React 19
  • Python
  • libvips
  • Claude API
  • AWS (SST)

Rice Hackathon 2026 · solo · 2 days

Sep 2026

IntentLock

A verified-human authorization gateway for AI agents, built for Persona's "Prove you're human" challenge.

policy checks
11
policy checks
attack simulations
10
attack simulations
risk tiers
T0–T5
risk tiers
build time
48h
build time
+Case study: problem, build, and caveats

Problem

Agents can be prompt-injected, replayed or quietly escalated. Before an agent does anything irreversible, like buying a $180 ticket, a real, verified human should approve that exact action, and the approval should never be reusable.

What I built

  • A default-deny policy engine with 11 checks, kept outside the model, so a prompt-injected purchase_gift_card fails deterministically
  • WebAuthn passkey approvals bound to a canonical SHA-256 digest of the exact action. Changing $180 to $1,800 breaks the signature
  • Exactly-once execution backed by 3 database uniqueness constraints, and a kill switch that bumps a security epoch to revoke all authority at once
  • A hash-chained, P-256-signed audit log, and a security lab that runs 10 attacks against the live enforcement code

Honest note: Hackathon prototype: Persona checks run in a labeled simulation mode without sandbox keys, and the merchant call is simulated.

  • TypeScript
  • React 19
  • Cloudflare Workers
  • D1
  • Drizzle
  • WebAuthn
  • Web Crypto
  • Persona

Personal project · solo

Jul 2026

Wardrobe AI

Photograph your clothes and get weather-aware outfits, week plans and AI try-on.

automated tests
787
automated tests
GenAI workflows
15
GenAI workflows
Postgres tables
41
Postgres tables
API routes
81
API routes
+Case study: problem, build, and caveats

Problem

LLM stylists invent clothes you don't own. I wanted an assistant whose AI output is always checked against what you actually own and can wear right now.

What I built

  • 15 OpenAI workflows (vision cataloging, garment extraction, web research, try-on with a QA gate), all using Zod structured outputs
  • Deterministic validation: every AI outfit must use owned, available, role-correct items, otherwise it's rejected
  • A 5-intent chat router where only 3 intents call a model, so lookup questions cost zero tokens
  • Postgres job queue (SKIP LOCKED), RLS on every table (37 policies), and TOTP MFA enforced at the database layer

Honest note: Built with Claude Code as a pair: I directed the work and reviewed every change.

  • Next.js 16
  • React 19
  • TypeScript
  • Supabase
  • PostgreSQL
  • OpenAI
  • Playwright
  • GitHub Actions

More projects · 11

Rice Datathon 2026 · team of 4

Jan 2026

NeuroTech: Mind Over Matter

ML engineer

An EEGNet-style CNN in PyTorch that decodes 4-class motor EEG, reaching ~51.5% validation accuracy on 17 unseen subjects (chance is 25%). Built with 8–30 Hz band-pass filtering and 22-channel motor-strip isolation.

The team's final submission used an ensemble; the EEGNet model was my part.

  • Python
  • PyTorch
  • MNE
  • EEGNet

Senior project · solo

Spring 2026

NeuroShorts

Solo developer

AI micro-learning shorts: Gemini plans a curriculum, then generates images and Veo video clips with a quiz after each lesson.

Prototyped largely in Google AI Studio.

  • React 19
  • TypeScript
  • Gemini
  • Veo
  • Firebase

NAU · team of 2

Oct — Dec 2025

Akira AI

Co-developer

Generates complete, responsive websites from a natural-language prompt, with live preview. I built the first generation backend on OpenAI (GPT-4o-mini with strict JSON output, gpt-image-1) and the chat and preview components.

The team later moved generation to Gemini; that switch was my teammate's work.

  • Next.js 15
  • React 19
  • TypeScript
  • Tailwind
  • OpenAI
  • Vercel

KurultAi R&D Club

Sep 2024 — Present

Hukm AI

Club project

A legal AI chatbot built with TensorFlow and NLP that answers users' legal questions, with continuous-learning improvements to context handling.

  • Python
  • TensorFlow
  • NLP

Personal · solo

Oct — Nov 2025

Study Path

Backend developer

The REST backend for a learning & practice platform: 6 Prisma models, 5 endpoints, NextAuth sessions and zod validation. A topic counts as mastered after 3 correct answers in a row.

Backend-only prototype; no UI yet.

  • Next.js 16
  • Prisma
  • SQLite
  • NextAuth
  • Zod

Personal · solo

Dec 2025

CTL

Full-stack developer

A community and habit-tracking prototype with a landing page, navigation and a Supabase-backed data layer.

Early prototype: auth is UI-only and the tables use sample data.

  • Next.js 16
  • Supabase
  • shadcn/ui
  • Tailwind

Ala-Too International University

Feb — Jul 2023

University Facility Reservation

Full-stack developer

A real-time booking system for university facilities, with WebSocket-based live availability and email notifications.

  • React
  • Django
  • Python
  • WebSockets

E-commerce

Sep 2023 — Jun 2024

Inter-Sport

Front-end developer

A sportswear e-commerce storefront with product catalog, cart and responsive layouts.

  • React
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

Freelance · Voyager era

2022

USAID Cure TB

Front-end developer

Front-end work on a public-health information site for a USAID-funded tuberculosis program in Kyrgyzstan.

  • HTML
  • CSS
  • JavaScript

NGO website

2022

Child Protection Center

Front-end developer

A 12+ page website for a children's NGO in three languages (Russian, English and Kyrgyz).

  • HTML
  • CSS
  • JavaScript
  • i18n

Open study guide

2025 — 2026

Competitive Programming Roadmap

Author

A 26-topic ICPC preparation roadmap I put together while captaining NAU's team, from basics to graphs and DP.

  • Algorithms
  • Data structures
  • C++
Everything on GitHub
03

Awards & certifications

Awards & competitions

  • ICPC South Central Regional: 2nd place at the University of Houston site, Honorable Mention overall (team captain)2025
  • National Math Olympiad: Gold medal, twice2020–21
  • Rice Hackathon: IntentLock, Persona challenge (solo)2026
  • Rice Datathon: NeuroTech: Mind Over Matter (team of 4)2026

Certifications · 11

  • AI Agents Fundamentals

    Hugging Face2026

  • Claude Code 101 (Claude Academy)

    Anthropic2026

  • Certificate of Appreciation

    North American University2025

  • ICPC Certificate of Achievement

    ICPC2025

  • Front End Developer (React)

    HackerRank2025

  • Programming in Python

    Coursera2025

  • Version Control

    Meta · Coursera2025

  • Amazon Bedrock: Getting Started with Generative AI

    AWS · Coursera2024

  • Introduction to Front-End Development

    Meta · Coursera2024

  • Introduction to Back-End Development

    Meta · Coursera2024

  • AWS Certified Developer – Associate

    Amazon Web Services2024

Credentials on LinkedIn
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About

I'm a CS senior at North American University in Houston (GPA 3.58, major GPA 3.70, graduating Dec 2026). I started my career in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan in 2022, building travel-booking interfaces and teaching React at a coding school, then moved into backend, data and AI systems.

Right now I'm the only software engineer at Keystone Tile, a stone and tile distributor with five locations. I sit with the people who use my tools, learn how they work, and build what they need. So far that's a native iOS/macOS app, a website rebuild, data pipelines and field-sales software.

Outside work I build with AI agents in two ways. I engineer guardrails for them: policy engines, passkey approvals, and audit trails. I also use them as a team: I designed a 20-role Claude Code agent team with its own operating system of ownership rules, review gates, and evals. I write about it on LinkedIn, and I'm careful to say exactly what's real, what's simulated and what's projected.

Read my posts on building with AI agents

North American University

Sep 2023 — Dec 2026

B.S. Computer Science, Software Development · GPA 3.58 · Major GPA 3.70

ZERO ONE Coding School

Feb — Aug 2022

Front-End Development program · HTML, CSS, JavaScript, React

Toolkit

Languages

TypeScript / Python / Swift / Java / C++ / SQL

AI / Agents

Claude API / OpenAI / Gemini / Structured outputs / Evals / Agent guardrails / PyTorch / TensorFlow

Backend

Node.js / Hono / Django / PostgreSQL / Prisma / Redis / BullMQ / Supabase

Frontend & mobile

React 19 / Next.js / Redux / Tailwind / SwiftUI / PWA / offline

Cloud & infra

AWS / Cloudflare Workers / Vercel / Docker / Terraform / SST / GitHub Actions

Security

WebAuthn / Row-level security / OAuth / MFA / CSP / Signed audit logs

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Contact

Let's build something worth trusting.

I'm looking for new-grad software engineering and AI engineering roles starting in 2027, and I'm open to relocating. The fastest way to reach me is email.

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bekbolsun samaganov · swe · houston, tx

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open to new-grad SWE / AI engineer roles · grad dec 2026

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