Amirassyl Sagyndyk

amirassyl@uni.minerva.edu · linkedin.com/in/amirassyl · github.com/amirassyl

Eligible for CPT.

Experience

Exploratorium

Sep 2025 – May 2026

Software Engineer, Civic Project Partnership (via Minerva University)

  • Built the interactive front end for a museum exhibit prototype in a team of five, coordinating real-time input from camera, microphone, and dynamic UI.
  • Integrated ElevenLabs voice synthesis and MediaPipe pose tracking into one front-end event loop that turns visitor gestures and speech into UI animation.
  • Delivered a working prototype to the Exploratorium for internal review, working with research fellows to wireframe and implement visitor journeys.

Minerva University

Sep 2025 – May 2026

Mathematics Research Assistant

  • Developed and ran Python numerical solvers for Navier–Stokes boundary-value problems, modeling non-wetting droplet rebound across viscosity and impact-velocity conditions.

Yale University

Jun 2026 – Aug 2026

Yale Young Global Scholars Program Fellow

  • Mentored 750+ international high-school students across three academic sessions and coordinated campus-wide programming, including a competitive speaker series.

xCellence Robotics

Sep 2023 – Jun 2024

Programmer, FIRST Robotics Team

  • Wrote C/C++ control logic and hardware–software interfaces for Arduino-based robots; the team earned the FIRST Championship Design Award (Central Asia) and a Samsung Solve for Tomorrow semifinalist placement.
  • Produced technical explainer videos on robot logic and design that won the Social Media Challenge (190K+ views).

Education

Minerva University

Expected May 2029

B.S. Computational Sciences

  • Coursework: Probability and Statistics, Discrete Math, Computational Modeling, Game Theory, Data Structures and Algorithms, Single and Multivariable Calculus, Linear Algebra.

Nazarbayev Intellectual School of Physics and Mathematics

May 2025

Further Math, Physics, Computer Science · GPA 4.98 / 5.00

  • 'Orken' Presidential full-ride merit scholarship.
  • ISHR (Germany) merit exchange, top 15 of 400 students.
  • Johns Hopkins Center for Talented Youth: Mathematical Modeling (Game of Life).

Projects

Serotonin Pod

September 2025 – May 2026

TypeScript, React, MediaPipe Pose, ElevenLabs, React Three Fiber

A browser-based wellness experience prototyped for the Exploratorium. You name what you feel, then a voice guide and live pose tracking walk you through a body pose or breathing exercise matched to that emotion.

SF Location Intel

November 2025

Cloudflare Workers, FastAPI, Python, React, Mapbox

A hackathon prototype for a nonprofit newsroom that pulls San Francisco open data about a street into one view, plus a daily email digest of newly registered businesses.

Python, NumPy, Matplotlib, Jupyter

A numerical simulation of how COVID-19 could spread through Karaganda, Kazakhstan, using the SIR model and Euler's method written from scratch.

Breast cancer cell statistics

Fall 2025 – Spring 2026

Python, Pandas, SciPy, statsmodels, Matplotlib

Hypothesis testing and linear regression on the Breast Cancer Wisconsin dataset, with the descriptive statistics implemented from scratch.

Skills

Languages
Python, C/C++, SQL, JavaScript, HTML/CSS
Frameworks & tools
React, Three.js, React Three Fiber, WebGL, Node.js, Git, NumPy, Pandas, SciPy, Matplotlib
Human languages
English (fluent), Kazakh (native), Russian (native), German (beginner)