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Open-source robotics collaboration
Collaborated with HCLTech on robotics-related open-source initiatives, working directly with Tamas Foldi ↗.
I'm Nuralem Abizov —
a robotics & software engineer building intelligent machines.
Robotics / software engineer with 10+ years of experience and an open-source contributor to Nvidia IsaacLab, Go2 Omniverse SDK, and the Unitree Go2 SDK. I design end-to-end autonomous systems — perception, locomotion, and control — and build resilient backend & fintech infrastructure that runs in production.
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Experience
Where I've built things
10+ years across robotics R&D, autonomy, machine learning, and fintech engineering.
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Robotics Consultant
Playoasis OÜ — Cyprus Present Contract RoboticsOnline robot battles powered by Isaac Lab
Developing a project for online robot battles based on Nvidia Isaac Lab, advising on robotics architecture, simulation strategy, and implementation.
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Private L1 blockchain for global donation infrastructure
Led development of a private Layer-1 blockchain for a global donation network, including creation of an ERC-20 token. The token capitalization was around $9B.
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Next-gen payments & tokenized loyalty platform
Led engineering for a customizable payments/coupon platform. Launched an L2 coin on Etherlink (Tezos) for a loyalty program serving Switzerland's largest health insurer — reaching 42,355 holders and 167,819 on-chain transfers, ranking #2 by holders in the Tezos (Etherlink) network. Source ↗
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Chief Technology Officer
Re:start Fintech — Austin, TX, USA (Remote) ↗ 2022 – 2025 Contract Fintech & BlockchainGrew from Senior Engineer → Dev Lead → CTO
Established two American neobanks (Re:start ↗ and Dora ↗) from the ground up and built production-grade infrastructure for complex financial environments, leading engineering teams across the US and Europe over a multi-year operation. American Banker ↗
A&M
Memory-driven visual navigation & robotic swarms
Co-authored research on MLLM memory-driven visual navigation (Unitree GO1) and blockchain-managed robotic swarms with Hybrid ACO.
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Frontier AI & Robotics
Consulted on advanced robotics problems alongside leading experts in the field, working directly with Rocky Duan ↗.
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Part-time job
Taught 1000+ students in robotics, machine learning, algorithms & data structures, mobile development, system reliability, and operating systems.
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End-to-end robotic welding on the edge of science
- Designed an end-to-end robotic beam-welding system delivering 1.5× faster production and 60% fewer defects compared to human welders.
- Built a microservice architecture that accelerated planning algorithms 16×.
- Solved geometry-analysis problems (Tekla + ROS), boosting team research speed +50%.
- Created a 3D analyzer for Tekla — "Best Developer Project Kazakhstan", Tekla BIM Awards 2021.
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RPA & automation at Kazakhstan's largest bank
Built a commercially successful RPA studio (8× faster robot development) and a Forex trading robot approving 100+ transactions/day (~$100M), cutting approval time from 15 to 2 minutes.
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Software Engineer
Dorsnab — Almaty 2019 – 2020 Employee RoboticsComputer vision & industrial automation
Built a computer-vision system for bitumen quantity control (−30% material use), a semi-automatic filling conveyor (3.6× throughput), and industrial steam (1.2 MW) & thermal-oil (420 kW) boilers from scratch.
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Teaching Assistant — AI Lab (MIL)
Hangzhou Dianzi University — China ↗ 2017 – 2019 Volunteer RoboticsMachine learning & humanoid balancing research
Created and taught "Introduction to Machine Learning"; supervised lab AI projects including a humanoid balancing on an unstable platform using neural networks.
Engineering work
Projects
Selected systems I've designed and built — from academic research to commercial robotics and industrial engineering.
Commercial
Quant Robotics — Autonomous Welding
An end-to-end robotic beam-welding system that boosts production speed by 1.5× and cuts defects by 60% compared to human welders. Included an award-winning 3D analyzer for Tekla (Trimble), integrated with ROS.
- 1.5× faster
- −60% defects
- 16× planning
Autonomous Delivery Rover
A last-mile delivery robot built from scratch — hardware platform plus a Level-4 autopilot written and validated in the CARLA simulator using Unreal Engine 4. Engineered for the lowest bill-of-materials cost on the market while keeping an all-weather perception stack.
- Level-4 autopilot
- CARLA + UE4
- Small-series production
- 360° perception
Quadruped Delivery Courier
A legged delivery platform that moves seamlessly between indoor and outdoor environments, climbs steps, and handles constrained spaces that stop wheeled robots. Built on a Unitree Go2 chassis with a modular sensor array.
- Legged mobility
- Unitree Go2 platform
- Modular sensors
Manipulation & Autonomy — Isaac Lab
Reinforcement-learning and control experiments for real-world interaction tasks such as autonomous door opening — perception, manipulation, and locomotion trained in Nvidia Isaac Lab.
- Isaac Lab / RL
- Manipulation
- Locomotion
Steam Boiler Design & Assembly
Designed and assembled industrial steam boiler systems from scratch — including a 1.2 MW steam boiler and a 420 kW thermal-oil boiler. Full cycle: thermal engineering, mechanical layout, piping, electrical control panels, and on-site commissioning. Saved around 60% of the budget compared to purchasing ready-made units from manufacturers.
- 1.2 MW steam
- 420 kW thermal oil
- Full assembly
- −60% cost
Scientific & Research
Unitree Go2 Air → Wheeled Platform
Converted a $1,600 Unitree Go2 Air into a wheeled version — a configuration that normally costs around $16,000 from the manufacturer. Built and validated in Nvidia Isaac Lab, turning a legged platform into a high-mobility wheeled robot for faster traversal on flat and urban terrain.
- Go2 Air base
- Isaac Lab
- Wheeled mod
- ~10× cost savings
Humanoid Balancing with Neural Networks
Master's thesis work: designed and built a biped humanoid robot from scratch and developed balancing algorithms powered by a neural network — without PID controllers. The system learns to stabilize the platform on an unstable surface, combining mechanical design, embedded control, and machine-learning-based balance recovery in real time.
- Master's thesis
- No PID
- Neural network control
- Humanoid hardware
Isaac Lab Balancing Algorithms Integration
Developed and added balancing algorithms to Nvidia Isaac Lab, enabling humanoid-style systems to learn stable motion on unstable surfaces and stairs. Became a listed contributor for this integration in the official Isaac Lab project (Contributors ↗).
- Isaac Lab integration
- Balancing algorithms
- Stairs simulation
- Contributor listing
Fully Automated Robot Warehouse
Bachelor's diploma project: designed and built a fully automated mini-warehouse with autonomous mobile robots — inspired by Amazon warehouse robotics. The system coordinates multiple robots for item storage, retrieval, and transport across the warehouse floor, demonstrating end-to-end automation from task scheduling to physical execution.
- Bachelor's thesis
- Multi-robot fleet
- Amazon-inspired
- Full automation
🔒 There are more interesting projects under NDA that I can't show publicly — only the work I'm allowed to share is listed here.
Education
Academic background
M.Sc. — Computer Science & Technology
B.Sc. — Computer Software & Engineering
Research
Publications
Peer-reviewed and preprint work in robotics, autonomy, and multi-robot systems.
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A Review of Simultaneous Localization and Mapping Methods for Off-Road Mobile Robots
ETASR — Engineering, Technology & Applied Science Research
A survey of SLAM for off-road mobile robots, categorizing LiDAR-based, visual, multi-sensor-fusion, and learning/semantic approaches. Analyzes accuracy, drift, robustness, and efficiency, and identifies research gaps toward hybrid, computation-aware SLAM and standardized off-road benchmarks.
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A Walk to Remember: MLLM Memory-Driven Visual Navigation
Texas A&M University · ResearchGate
A memory-based navigation framework for terrestrial robots using a customized multimodal LLM to interpret visual inputs and generate navigation commands. A Unitree GO1 reuses previously traversed paths to reduce re-exploration, with a hybrid deliberation + reactive controller improving path retracing.
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Hybrid ACO for Blockchain-managed Robotic Swarms
ResearchGate
A dynamic multi-robot mapping framework combining blockchain-based swarm contracts for decentralized task allocation with a Hybrid Ant Colony Optimization algorithm for path planning. Deployed LiDAR-equipped Unitree Go2 robots in cooperative and competitive modes to map sub-areas with verifiable full coverage.
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Let's build something ambitious
Open to robotics engineering, autonomy, and applied-ML roles and collaborations. The fastest way to reach me is email.
