# Nurym K.

> Software Engineer

Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/nurym

TL;DR: Full-stack software engineer building products since 2014 (16 yo). Previously at Robinhood, Twise.ai. I have built and launched web projects to millions of users. I have built conversational AI assistants, built AI-powered product discovery, created motion-heavy interactive experiences, developed analytics & charts, and revamped web interviews. Experienced in JavaScript (React, Next.js), Python (FastAPI). CS @ UCLA '20.

Check out nurymka.com for in-depth project explanations and visuals.

## Work Experience
### Software Engineer @ Magic Patterns
Jan 2025 – Present | San Francisco, CA

### Software Engineer @ Twise.ai
Jan 2024 – Jan 2025 | Barcelona
Owner & sole maintainer of the backend codebase. Responsible for system health, release management, feature planning.
* Built Product Discovery - enabled the AI assistant to make product recommendations relevant to the current conversation.
* Built Create from Website - create an AI assistant for a brand from a website URL.
* Built Insights - AI assistant analytics showcasing user interaction, costs, conversation volume, top pages, common keywords, etc.
* Continuously improved AI assistant answer quality: revamped Q&A knowledge card model, enhanced context retention.

### Software Engineer @ Robinhood
Jan 2020 – Jan 2022 | Menlo Park, California, United States
* Led the backend design, web implementation & designed the content pipeline for the Market Updates project (an initiative to provide bite-sized updates for market-wide news & enable in-house editorial news content in app).
* Led the web implementation for Feature Discovery, a module showcasing relevant Robinhood products to try out. The project led to a huge increase in traffic to Recurring Investments, Crypto, Dividend Reinvestments and other products.
* Main PoC for Snacks and Learn websites, migrated Snacks from react-static to next.js, was on-call for logged out sites.
* Led 30+ tech screens for web engineers. Recorded example interviews as training material for new interviewers. Iterated on new interviewing problems as part of the web interview revamp.
* Designed & developed a package that revamps & simplifies the content deployment (Contentful -> CDN) pipeline. Laid the foundation for further automating the content deployment process. 
* Led the web implementation for In-App Comms, an initiative to enable info alerts/banners in various places within the app.
* Led the web implementation for IPO Readiness projects, including a ‘thank you’ experience for customers sticking with Robinhood (1M+ views) & an internal website to celebrate the IPO day.
* Led the web implementation for Education Lessons, learning moments showcasing the basics of investing. Laid the foundation for the Education Hub. (600K+ lessons completed)
* Built the 2020 Year In Review experience on web (2M+ views).

### Frontend Developer @ FanAI Inc.
Jan 2019 – Jan 2020 | Santa Monica, California, United States
* Implemented numerous analytics visualizations using Highcharts.
* Designed an architecture to support customizable dashboards.
* Built the MVP for the upcoming spend attribution feature.
* Ensured component maintainability using Storybook, E2E testing, UI testing, Atomic Design.

### Software Engineer @ HENNGE
Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 | Tokyo, Japan
* Single-handedly built & deployed a scalable Twitter clone in Flask and React. Managed the cloud infrastructure through Terraform. Extensively used AWS: Amazon VPC, Elastic Load Balancing, ECS, Route 53, CloudWatch.
* Automated applicant data analytics by integrating with Greenhouse.io, and provided data visualization through Amazon QuickSight.

### iOS/React Native Engineer & Designer @ ZeroToOneLabs.com
Jan 2016 – Jan 2016 | Almaty, Kazakhstan
* Shipped WeVote - a social platform for political elections on Android.
* Shipped Kanji Ninja 2.0 - major update from 1.0, fun game to learn Japanese characters.

### Student @ nFactorial Incubator
Jan 2015 – Jan 2015 | Almaty, Kazakhstan
* Created, designed & developed a fun iOS game to learn both drawing and reading of 1,000 Japanese characters. 
* Featured on ProductHunt (with 270 upvotes): https://www.producthunt.com/tech/kanji-ninja. Available on App Store: http://apple.co/2b03ix5
* Integrated an optical character recognition (OCR) engine that checks whether the player drew characters correctly.
* Implemented a spaced repetition system that track one's progress and prompts the player to review kanji at just the right time.

### Student at Summer Academy @ Make School
Jan 2014 – Jan 2014 | San Francisco, CA
* Created, designed & developed an addictive puzzle game about connecting lively and colorful dots.
* Features three different game modes: confusion, timed, brain shift.
* Available on the App Store: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/nukte-addictive-puzzle-game/id1059117899


## Education
### Bachelor of Science - BS in Computer Science
UCLA
Jan 2017 – Jan 2020

### International Baccalaureate Diploma
Nazarbayev Intellectual School of Astana
Jan 2009 – Jan 2015


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/nurymka
- Website: https://nurymka.com/

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Last updated: 2026-03-20