Director of Engineering
Hi, I'm Sanzhar.
I lead engineering teams and still ship code. I took a week off to build this site — a living portfolio of tools, decisions, and lessons learned.
Everything here is transparent: the prompts, the costs, the mistakes.
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I'm a Director of Engineering who took a week off to build something for myself. This site is both a portfolio and a set of tools I use daily — finance tracking, tennis court booking, football team management.
Every feature is documented with full transparency: the design decisions, the AI prompts I used, what they cost, and what I learned. Because the best portfolio isn't a list of things you built — it's evidence of how you think.