Rauan Khamza
Experience
ACTIVEPALSI Leader / Undergraduate Teaching Assistant (Python)
City University of Hong Kong
ACTIVEAI Backend Infrastructure Engineer Intern
Gensmart Technology
Built an MCP server that gives AI agents an interface to LinkedIn for posting and scheduling, on Cloudflare Workers with a REST API, per-user agent tokens and a Next.js dashboard. Integrated AWS Bedrock models into the team's agent built on Nous Research's Hermes Agent; now helping migrate the service to AWS.
ACTIVEFull Stack Engineering Intern (Mentee)
EventBinder
Built a registration-intake service on Cloudflare Workers and D1 that syncs guest lists from Google Sheets, and a CRUD web app for event management with MongoDB JSON schemas. Also scan and photograph venues for visual setup presentations and help plan event logistics.
DONEUndergraduate Research & Software Assistant (AI Integration)
City University of Hong Kong
One of five researchers picked from twenty to lead AI-driven coursework integration under an Agentic Coding grant. Published socratic-watchdog to PyPI, a Jupyter extension that runs hidden tests on each cell and asks a spoken Socratic question instead of giving the answer, and built JupyterHub and Moodle tooling for a large Python curriculum.
DONEPALSI Leader / Undergraduate Teaching Assistant (Python)
City University of Hong Kong
Peer instruction and live technical support for a 430-student team-based Python course. The team's work helped cut the failure rate to a record-low 4%, against a 10% historic average.
Education
ACTIVEBSc Computer Science
City University of Hong Kong
GPA 3.68.
DONEBSc Computer Science
Nazarbayev University
GPA 3.4. Left after the first year to continue in Hong Kong.
DONEHigh school
Nazarbayev Intellectual School
3A* in Physics, Chemistry and Mathematics. SAT 1520, IELTS 8.0.
Projects
ACTIVESelf-hosted MCP hub
Personal
Dockerized MCP servers for Canvas, the CityU portal and SSH on a GCP VM behind Cloudflare Access, reachable from Claude Code, claude.ai and mobile.
ACTIVEIoT AC switch
Personal
An ESP32 servo that flips the AC wall switch over a Durable Object WebSocket. Replacing polling with hibernating push cut storage writes from 172,800 a day to zero.
ACTIVEProductivity API
Personal
One Cloudflare Worker and D1 database serving a GTD web app, a Telegram capture bot and an MCP server.
Publications
DONEDIVE into Agentic Coding: Can You Teach AI to Teach You?
IEEE TALE 2026
C. Chan, C. Zhao, Z. Wang, A. A. Ahmedani, B. Karimtayev, M. R. C. Marcello, N. M. B. Lua, R. Khamza.
Links
- Email[email protected]
- GitHubgithub.com/xamzar
- LinkedInlinkedin.com/in/xmzr
- Telegramt.me/xmzrkz
- Instagraminstagram.com/xmzrdv
- WhatsAppwa.me/xmzr