My first project was a Telegram bot for school. I remember the feeling when the first hundred people started using it. It was amazing to realize that people were actually using what I built.
Then I started taking freelance orders while still in school, participated in informatics and database olympiads. Later came hackathons — winning prizes, including making it to the NASA Space Apps Challenge finals out of 8,000 teams (October 2024).
Found my first job — worked at Traffy, Asquids, and various Telegram Mini Apps projects. Worked with blockchain, built a crypto payment gateway that's still being used today. After that, worked at a fintech company where I dove even deeper into this space.
Summer 2025, got into nFactorial Incubator, made it to Demo Day among 80 projects. menoai.site reached 800+ users, but decided to move on, not seeing a future in the project.
CatOps
Decided to pivot to DevOps, building CatOps — AI-powered monitoring for developers. Saw the problem in my own projects: it takes too long to set up monitoring and make sure the project doesn't crash. Especially for startups, time is money, and spending it on infrastructure setup is pretty stupid.
CatOps
CurrentAI-powered monitoring that sets up in minutes
- Quick setup for startups
- AI-powered analysis and solutions
- Telegram integration
- Open Source — 40+
Almaty
At the same time, moved from my parents' place to Almaty at 16 and got a job as a developer at one of the companies that offered me a position. Decided to explore something new.
Yes, it was sad leaving family, friends, girlfriend, and home. But I believe it was worth it and will pay off.
Stack
Languages
Python, Go, JavaScript, Node.js
Frameworks
FastAPI, Express.js, aiogram
Blockchain
Crypto payments, Web3
DevOps
Docker, Monitoring, AI/ML