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Erbol Esengulov
AI Engineer at Gaide. Curious about math and ML.
Gaide ·
Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands · engineer
AI Engineer At Gaide (Amsterdam) Building AI Pipelines For ClientsData Science Working-student Role At Robeco (asset Manager) Building Topic-modeling And AI-scraping ToolsIMO 2020 Honorable Mention For Kyrgyzstan; Co-authored A BNAIC/BeNeLearn 2025 Thesis Abstract On Semantic Search Over Olympiad Math Problems
LocationAmsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands
Company sitegaide.nl
UniversityVrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Artificial IntelligenceMachine LearningNLP / transformer modelsSemantic searchTopic modelingPythonWeb scrapingSoftware engineeringMathematicsMachine learningAI
- Quant employment verification: CONFIRMED. Identity is supported (LinkedIn profile erbol-esengulov-221a0125b with an olympiad background matching IMO 2020/2021 for Kyrgyzstan, and Gaide's own company blog naming him). Employment evidence: an actual Data Science Intern / working-student role at Robeco (Rotterdam), 2024-03 to 2025-08, self-reported in a dated LinkedIn post ('starting a new position as Working Student at Robeco', Apr 2024) and corroborated by Gaide's blog stating he 'worked at Robeco'. Employer classification: Robeco (robeco.com) is a pure-play international asset manager (Rotterdam, ~EUR 337bn AUM, ~EUR 109bn run on quant models per the company index), i.e. quantitative investment management, which the brief counts; however it is an asset manager, not a bank, hedge fund or market-maker, and the role was data science rather than a quant-research or trading-desk seat. No role at any trading, market-making, hedge-fund or systematic-trading firm was found. Index-only claim (not independent primary confirmation): the local index lists the role as 'Data Science Intern, 2024-2025'.Apr 2024
- Index-only: local profile index (person_id 1157271135) lists current role as AI Engineer at Gaide (gaideme.com / gaide.nl), Amsterdam, 2025-present; not an independent primary-source confirmation.Sep 3, 2026
- Index lists a Data Science Intern / working-student role at Robeco (Rotterdam), 2024-2025; Robeco is an asset manager (robeco.com), so this is an asset-management data role, not a trading desk.Mar 2024
- Represented Kyrgyzstan at the International Mathematical Olympiad in 2020 and 2021, earning an Honorable Mention in 2021 (per his own LinkedIn summary).
- Gaide's own company blog (Nov 14, 2025) confirms Erbol Esengulov works as an AI Engineer at Gaide and previously worked at Robeco, where he built AI tools - employer-side primary confirmation of both roles.Nov 14, 2025
- Co-authored 'Semantic Search in Olympiad Math Problems' with Filip Ilievski (2025), on retrieving math problems by reasoning structure rather than surface features.
- Attended the math/informatics-specialized school No. 61 in Bishkek (УК АФМШЛ №61) 2014-2021; won a bronze medal at the 2021 Zhautykov International Olympiad in mathematics.
Experience
AI Engineer at Gaide
Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands
Working as an AI engineer. My job consists of making and setting up AI pipelines to deliver results for our clients.
Data Science Intern at Robeco
Rotterdam, South Holland, Netherlands
Working in Data Science department of international company "Robeco" as a working student.
Software Engineer Enthousiast at Self-employed
Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands
Created some application such as: websites, android applications, discord bots, gaming bots.
Education
Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (VU Amsterdam)
Bachelor's degree, Artificial Intelligence
Higher School of Economics
УК АФМШЛ №61
Math Olympiads, Informatics Olympiads
Projects
Topic modeling pipeline (Robeco)
AI-powered web scraping tool (Robeco)
AchievementsHonorable Mention, IMO 2020, representing Kyrgyzstan (rank 445, 7 points) · Represented Kyrgyzstan at IMO 2021 · Bronze medal, 2021 Zhautykov International Olympiad (mathematics) · APMO 2021 participant (Kyrgyzstan)
Credentials
Structuring Machine Learning ProjectsImproving Deep Neural Networks: Hyperparameter Tuning, Regularization And OptimizationNeural Networks And Deep Learning
Articles
Talks
AwardsHonorable Mention, International Mathematical Olympiad 2020 (Kyrgyzstan) · Bronze medal, 2021 Zhautykov International Olympiad (mathematics)
Profiles
Competition record
Kyrgyzstan · IMO