Building in public — Abu Dhabi

Insar Tungushbayev

AI Engineer / Builder / Creator

I build AI products that matter and share the journey with thousands online — from MIT research labs to VC-backed startups.

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1st Place — Microsoft Imagine Cup MIT EECS & IMES Research Intern Top 30 — Uber Global Hackathon / 68 Countries $550,000+ in Grants Secured 1st Place — Zimran Business Cup AI Engineer at Antler VC Built Central Asia's Largest Student Research Community 1st Place — Microsoft Imagine Cup MIT EECS & IMES Research Intern Top 30 — Uber Global Hackathon / 68 Countries $550,000+ in Grants Secured 1st Place — Zimran Business Cup AI Engineer at Antler VC Built Central Asia's Largest Student Research Community
0 Model accuracy at MIT
0 Credit grants secured
0 People led as CEO
0 Countries competed against

/ Work

Where I've built

2026 · Now

AI Engineer Intern

Antler — Global VC Firm · Abu Dhabi

Building agentic AI systems from 0 to 1 to automate and augment venture-capital workflows at one of the world's leading early-stage firms.

MIT · 2023

Research Intern

MIT EECS & IMES — ZebraVision99

98% accuracy predicting eye diseases across 4,000+ images using cDCGAN generative AI.

Founder · 2023

CEO — NeuroDetect

AI for neurological disease detection

Secured $550K+ in grants, led a team of 13 through Microsoft for Startups & Pegasus.

Founder · 2024

Research Orda Kazakhstan

researchorda.com — Central Asia's #1 student research community

Built and led a selective research incubator: 25 professors, 10+ assistants, 50 students, a 7.5% acceptance rate, and 12 university-level lectures.

/ Education

Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence

BSc in Artificial Intelligence · Abu Dhabi, UAE

Pioneer Merit Scholarship — Full ride VP, Entrepreneurship Club 1 of 70 international students

/ Products

Things I've shipped

AI products taken from idea to live, usable apps — not just prototypes.

/ Content

Building in public

AI, startups, research & discipline — shared with thousands.

Addicted to building

How to learn AI agents (free)

Discipline over motivation

Think long-term

Claude Security post by Insar

Claude Security — viral post

/ Recognition

International wins

01

Microsoft Imagine Cup

Global Finalist · Microsoft & BCPD

1st Place
02

Zimran Business Cup

Took part solo & won solo · 1,000+ participants · 250+ teams · 750,000 KZT

1st Place
03

International Economics Olympiad

700+ participants · 100+ teams

Top 2
04

Uber Global Hackathon

732 teams · 1,800+ competitors · 68 countries

Top 30
05

GCSP Transformative Futures Prize

Peace & Security · 170+ applications

Top 15
06

Central Asian Startup Show

1 of 19 finalists / 200+ · 200,000 KZT

Best Innovation Idea
07

Solve for Tomorrow — Samsung

120+ teams · 500+ participants · 450,000 KZT

Finalist
08

HackNU 2026 — Higgsfield Prize

Growth Engineering · 700+ participants

Special Prize

/ Toolkit

What I build with

AI Engineering
Agentic systemsLLM APIsRAGPrompt engineeringWorkflow automationLangChain / LangGraph
Languages
PythonJavaScriptRSQLMatlab
Libraries & Frameworks
ReactTensorFlowScikit-learnPandasNumPyMatplotlib
Tools & Methods
FigmaJiraMiroAgile / ScrumLean StartupKanban
Insar at the office
Portrait of Insar Tungushbayev
Insar speaking at a talk

/ Contact

Let's build
something great.

Open to research, internships, and full-time roles in AI & product — and always up for a good conversation.

insarchique@gmail.com