Astana, Kazakhstan · remote · UTC+5

Bekzat
Yernat

Full-stack engineer · Laravel / Vue / Nuxt · WebGL

I ship products people actually use — and write the shaders behind them.

Open to full-time or contractremote · relocation OK

  • 2,850 weekly users on shaqyrtu.kz
  • 20+ products in production
  • 6+ years shipping
  • 2 companies co-founded
  • 20+ engineers mentored

Selected work

Real products with real users. Built solo or as the lead engineer.

own product2025 live

Shaqyrtu

Online invitations for Kazakh weddings and toi, with a WebGL theme editor.

Grew ~10× in one month to ~2,850 weekly users with live Kaspi payments. The Floral theme is pure GLSL: petals are distance fields on the GPU that reassemble into a wreath, a heart and a bouquet as you scroll. No video, no images.

  • Nuxt 3
  • Three.js
  • GLSL
  • Kaspi Pay
  • PostgreSQL
Shaqyrtu landing
Shaqyrtu invitation

own product2026

MedSim

AI clinical simulator for medical students.

Interview a virtual patient, set a preliminary diagnosis, get structured feedback. Clinical reasoning practice with zero patient risk, 24/7.

  • Nuxt
  • LLM
  • Vue 3
  • TypeScript
MedSim screenshot

platform2023–2026

Optimus Edutech

Operating system for private schools: attendance, grades, meals, parent chat, PWA.

Started as Unlock.co with real-time classrooms on Yjs/CRDT, won a 3M ₸ grant, pivoted into a platform schools run on daily. 2,200+ active users.

  • Nuxt
  • Supabase
  • Capacitor
  • Yjs
Optimus Edutech screenshot

own product2026login only

AQL Academy

My own IT academy in Atyrau and the platform behind it: student portal, courses, mentors, AI tutor.

Started as AQL Interactive (Nuxt 3, 33-component lesson DSL, 53 lessons). Pivoted in July 2026 into AQL Portal on Laravel 12 + Inertia: an LLM agent layer with 44 role-scoped tools, token budgets and retrieval, a curriculum pipeline that turns YouTube and documents into graded units, Telegram sign-in, a Flutter/iOS client. Led with one other developer.

  • Laravel 12
  • Inertia
  • Vue 3
  • LLM agents
  • Flutter
AQL Academy screenshot

own product2026

Edyoumate

Career-orientation test for teenagers and their parents.

110 questions, 15 minutes, an instant personalised report with study tracks and universities in Kazakhstan and abroad. Paid product on Laravel + Inertia.

  • Laravel
  • Inertia
  • Vue 3
  • Payments
Edyoumate screenshot

client work2026login only

MIT Atyrau portal

School journal for an education centre: students, grades, schedule.

Bilingual KZ/RU portal on Laravel + Inertia + Vue, built for teachers who live in it every day.

  • Laravel
  • Inertia
  • Vue 3
  • i18n
MIT Atyrau portal screenshot

client work2024

e-Budget Asia

Government budgeting system.

Budget requests, approvals and reporting across departments with a full audit trail. Used by 20+ organisations.

  • Vue
  • Nuxt
  • REST
  • Audit log
e-Budget Asia screenshot

employment2023–2024

DocuSketch

360° virtual property tours, remote with a German product team.

Built the browser tour player, hardened a legacy HTML5 Canvas floor-plan editor, grew Playwright and Jest coverage, ran technical interviews.

  • Vue 3
  • TypeScript
  • HTML5 Canvas
  • Playwright
DocuSketch screenshot

Range

From fragment shaders to government budgets. Same engineer.

Creative & real-time

Product & mobile

  • Vue 3 / Nuxt 3–4, Inertia, TypeScript, Pinia, Tailwind
  • PWA, Capacitor and a Flutter/iOS client
  • Kaspi payments, Telegram OAuth, KZ/RU/EN i18n
  • LLM features: OpenAI, Gemini, ElevenLabs, embeddings
  • Analytics-driven iteration, weekly releases

Systems & backend

  • LLM agent layer: 44 role-scoped tools, token budgets, retrieval
  • Data migration: XML exports to relational records, 16 services, audit trail
  • Laravel 8–12 + Inertia portals: AQL, MIT Atyrau, Edyoumate
  • NestJS, Node.js, PostgreSQL, MySQL, queues
  • Pest, Vitest, Jest, Playwright; Docker, NGINX, S3
  • AI-assisted development with Claude Code

Timeline

  1. 2026 — now

    ABM CoSoftware developer, part-time

    Sole author of the data-ingestion layer of a large Laravel platform (NDA): 16 services turning XML exports into relational records, with fuzzy reference matching, validation and an import audit trail. Plus features on Vue 3 + Inertia and Nuxt 3, Playwright E2E.

  2. 2026 — now

    AQL AcademyFounder & lead developer

    Interactive STEM platform, then the full academy portal on Laravel 12: LLM agents, curriculum pipeline, Flutter client.

  3. 2026 — 2026

    Contract game developerRTS in Unity3D / C#

    Shipped an RTS with one other developer; Tripo AI for 3D asset generation.

  4. 2024 — now

    shaqyrtu.kzFounder & lead developer

    WebGL invitation platform: GLSL petals, instanced particles, scroll-driven morphs, theme editor, Kaspi payments. ~2,850 weekly users.

  5. 2024 — 2026

    ABM CoCo-founder & frontend lead

    Co-founded and scaled a studio that shipped 10+ client products; led frontend architecture (Vue 3 / Nuxt 3–4), Laravel and NestJS backends, PWA/Capacitor, AI integrations. Later sold my share.

  6. 2023 — 2024

    Unlock.coCo-founder & product engineer

    Online teaching platform; 3M ₸ grant and an incubator; real-time classrooms on Yjs; became Optimus.

  7. 2023 — 2024

    DocuSketch, GermanyFrontend developer, remote

    Core product features in Vue 3 + TypeScript; canvas editor; tests; technical interviews.

  8. 2023 — 2024

    Devhouse AcademyCo-founder

    Learning-by-doing academy; 20+ developers mentored.

  9. 2020 — 2022

    ABM Co & Rocket TechFrontend / WebGL developer

    Vue 2 / Nuxt 2 products with Storybook; Agora video; a hand-built Three.js site.

  10. 2019 — 2020

    Contract game UIUnity (C#) and Godot

    Responsive mobile-game UI for Parakozm and contract titles.

  11. 2018 — 2022

    Suleyman Demirel UniversityBSc Computer Science

Bekzat sketching on a tablet by a window
Devhouse Academy · AQL Academy · Tech & AI Day

I also teach

Co-founded Devhouse Academy and mentored 20+ developers, some of whom landed their first offers there. Mentor at AQL Academy. Right now I run a weekly Tech & AI class for school kids: they ship a game on a laptop in lesson two.

Let's build something people use.

Full-time, contract, or a second opinion on your architecture. I reply within a day.