zhan

17 y.o. developer & founder

Built MindZan — a mental arithmetic platform — sold it for $10K to FOC, Central Asia's leading mental arithmetic olympiad organizer, and joined them as CTO of FOC World to scale it beyond the region.

Spent 5 years competing in mental arithmetic, became a republican champion, then left to learn programming. Came back to rebuild it better — and it worked.

Had startup attempts before (CatOps, AI monitoring tools). Researched problems, markets, spaces. Worked as a Software Engineer at bfinance.app, Fullstack Middle Developer at nFactorial.school. Also worked at Traffy, Asquids, fintech. Built crypto payment gateways, Telegram Mini Apps. Started programming in 8th grade.

Achievements: NASA Space Apps Challenge finalist, Google Build with AI winner, WorldSkills regional gold, nFactorial Incubator 2025 Demo Day with menoai.site.

I also started my acting career :) Built chatly.top in 7 days for a documentary.

Press: digitalbusiness.kz — Школьник из Павлодара в 15 лет уже зарабатывал 500 тысяч тенге, а в 17 успешно продал стартап.