Adilbek Bazarkulov
Software engineer
3× hackathon winner (HackUP 2026, BeaverHacks 2025, QuackHacks 2025)Founding engineer at Zyp, research software engineer in the Ramsey Lab at Oregon State on the NIH Translator, previously machine learning intern at Scripps Research.
About
i drove to portland alone for 
. no team, one weekend, a hand-tracking paint app called Gestro. it took first place in the innovator track and third place overall. the prizes were sized for a team of four, so i came home with four keyboards and four JBL speakers.
that is the part of hackathons i keep coming back for. one idea, a day or two, and something that runs before we drive home. 
went the same way, first place in the data-driven track with Greeney. 
, third in the Polymarket track with PolyDebate.
i'm a full stack engineer. what i care about most is that the thing keeps working when a lot of people use it. in the Ramsey Lab at Oregon State i work on the NIH Biomedical Data Translator, a knowledge graph that research teams query, and most of my work there is keeping it fast and running. last summer i was at Scripps Research, building an AI agent that answers clinical trial participants only from the trial's approved documents. since july i'm a founding engineer at Zyp, building the backend.
i built Housey, a roommate planner in React Native, after arguments with my roommates. around 200 people use it now, my roommates included.
i grew up around horses in the mountains of kyrgyzstan. i speak kyrgyz, russian and english. i'm finishing my M.S. in computer science at Oregon State in june 2027.
what i want next is backend and infra work on a product people depend on.
Experience
Jul 2026 - present
Founding engineer
CurrentPostgres row-level security and least-privilege roles, so one company can never read another company's data
Fastify and TypeScript API for KYC/KYB checks, Plaid bank linking, and HMAC-verified webhooks
Moved the backend off Supabase edge functions to Fastify and Prisma, migrations run before every Railway deploy
TypeScript, Fastify, Prisma, Zod, PostgreSQL, Better Auth, Plaid, Railway
Mar 2025 - present
Research software engineer
Current
Ramsey Laboratory, Oregon State UniversityPer-pull-request preview environments for the Translator reasoning service with GitHub Actions, Docker, and nginx
95% less memory per worker on an in-memory graph service: moved to uWSGI and froze Python's garbage collector to keep copy-on-write pages shared
Worker deadlocks went from several a month to zero
Python, Flask, uWSGI, nginx, Docker, Kubernetes, AWS EKS, OpenTelemetry
Jun 2026 - Aug 2026
Machine learning intern
Scripps Research, Moore Vogel Lab1 of 35 interns picked from 1,000+ applicants
Fine-tuned Mixtral 8x22B (141B, mixture-of-experts) with QLoRA across multiple GPUs and served it with vLLM in a live long COVID clinical trial
RAG over trial protocols with E5-large-v2 and FAISS plus guardrail gates. 91% clinician agreement, 99% fewer answers not backed by the protocol
Python, PyTorch, Hugging Face, QLoRA, vLLM, FAISS
Sep 2024 - Mar 2025
Graduate teaching assistant
Taught CS 290 web development for two terms
Weekly labs, office hours, code review on term projects
HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Node.js
Jul 2024 - Sep 2024
Software engineering intern
Analyzed slow queries on the SQL Server behind clinician single sign-on, proposed indexes, archived stale sessions. Live database 40% smaller
PowerShell and SQL monitor on login logs that alerts IT and security over email and Teams
SQL Server, T-SQL, PowerShell, Windows Server
Sep 2022 - Dec 2023
Undergraduate teaching assistant
Taught intro Python to 150+ students
Wrote homework, reference solutions, and slides for the course
Python
Projects
Things I build on my own time. Some won hackathons, one has paying users.
Research
Open source services I maintain for the Biomedical Data Translator, an NIH program run by NCATS and funded at about $8 million.
In-memory knowledge graph service. About 7 million concepts and 30 million relationships in RAM.
Python, Flask, uWSGI, nginx, Docker, AWS EC2, Kubernetes
Pipelines that turn about 30 biomedical datasets into one graph format, plus the server that hosts the releases.
Python, uv, Koza, ORION, Biolink Model, AWS S3, AWS EC2, Flask, Gunicorn, nginx, Docker
Build system that merges biomedical source databases into one knowledge graph.
Python, Bash, Snakemake, Neo4j, AWS S3, Docker, Biolink Model, OWL
Reasoning agent for the NIH Translator. Sends one question to around 40 knowledge sources and ranks the answers with evidence.
Python, Flask, uWSGI, MySQL, SQLite, Neo4j, Docker, AWS EC2, Kubernetes
Honors
2024–2027
2026
2026
2025
2025
Fall 2021 – Winter 2023
honor rollEECS undergraduate honor roll
top grades in EECS
2024 – Present
honor rollEECS graduate honor roll
top grades in EECS
2023
merit scholarshipEdith McDougall scholarship
merit-based undergraduate scholarship, Oregon State University
2021–2023
merit scholarshipinternational student continuation scholarship
merit-based scholarship recognizing academic excellence among international students
academic & community involvement
2020–2023
2021–2023
2021–2023
2021–2023
Teaching
courses taught at Oregon State University as a teaching assistant.
CS 290web development, Oregon State University
fall 2024 – winter 2025
CS 162intro to CS II, Oregon State University
summer 2022
CS 161intro to CS I, Oregon State University
winter 2021 – spring 2022
ENGR 102engineering fundamentals, Oregon State University
fall 2021
Activity
Jun 2026
attended the NIH Biomedical Data Translator June 2026 Hackathon on the NIH Rockledge campus (Bethesda, Maryland) as a Ramsey Lab member, working with other Translator project teams. hosted by NCATS
.Apr 2026
won 1st place innovator track and 3rd place best project overall for Gestro at HackUP 2026, University of Portland
.Nov 2025
placed 3rd place Polymarket track for PolyDebate at QuackHacks 2.0, University of Oregon
.Sep 2025
attended the NIH Biomedical Data Translator Fall 2025 Hackathon on the NIH Rockledge campus (Bethesda, Maryland) as a Ramsey Lab visitor, working alongside other Translator project teams on the Expander Agent stack. hosted by NCATS
.Apr 2025
won 1st place data-driven solutions track for Greeney at BeaverHacks Spring 2025, Oregon State University
.Spring 2023
presented my senior capstone project, partnered with HP
, at the EECS Spring 2023 Expo in the Kelley Engineering Center, Oregon State University .
Life
A few moments from my life.