Taleh Rzayev

Hi, I'm Taleh Rzayev.
Software engineer and AI researcher.

I have 4 years of frontend experience building production web applications with React and Next.js, and hands-on backend experience - REST APIs, databases and deployment. Alongside software engineering I work on AI research. My main interest is NLP for low-resource languages: the Turkic family, such as Azerbaijani, and the West Slavic group, such as Slovak and Czech.

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Software engineering

Production frontends with React and Next.js, backends with Node.js and Spring Boot - designed from schema to interface.

18 case studies

AI research

NLP for Azerbaijani · Transfer across the Turkic family · Czech and Slovak · Adaptive learning systems

2 research projects

Experience

ITM - Information Technology Center

05/2026 - Present · Baku, Azerbaijan · Remote

Full-Stack Developer

Full-time

Full-stack work on the centre's web platforms.

  • Diaspor.orgView project

    Multi-tenant publishing platform, built end to end.

  • UNEC Student Research JournalView project

    OJS platform with a Laravel front, DOI and Google Scholar indexing.

  • Institute of Lung DiseasesView project

    Rebuilding the public portal in Laravel.

Java · Spring Boot · PHP · Laravel · PostgreSQL · MySQL · React · Next.js · OJS · AWS S3 · Docker

Edumedia-Azerbaijan LLC

03/2023 - 08/2026 · Baku, Azerbaijan · On-site

  1. Frontend Developer (Middle)

    03/2025 - 08/2026Full-time

    National platforms for the Ministry of Science and Education and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

    • Digital School (Digital.edu.az)View project

      The ministry's national school platform: one portal for teachers, directors, students and parents. Our biggest and heaviest system.

      • Built 10+ of its services from scratch.
      • AI learning assistant - a frontend developer by role, I was brought into the team that built the students' chatbot on a local generative model trained on the ministry's materials. Launched in June 2026.

    • Video.edu.azView project

      Moved off the old system and rebuilt from scratch in Next.js.

    • Pts.edu.azView project

      Internal system for vocational schools.

      • 10+ services built or reworked - online diplomas, individual study plans, student transfers.

    • Portal.edu.azView project

      Study-abroad applications under the HTP and DP programmes.

    • Karabakh.edu.azView project

      Karabakh University's official site.

    • Mfa.gov.az

      The Ministry of Foreign Affairs' official website - support.

    React · Next.js · TypeScript · Redux Toolkit · Figma · GitLab

  2. Frontend Developer (Junior)

    03/2023 - 03/2025Full-time

    National platforms for the Ministry of Science and Education and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

    • aida.mfa.gov.az

      The Ministry of Foreign Affairs' internal apostille and legalisation system, built from scratch.

    • Ict.edu.azView project

      Frontend written from scratch.

    • Ite.azView project

      Teacher training centre - built the frontend.

    • MarsAcademy.azView project

      Children's STEM academy - built the site.

    • Edu.gov.azView project

      The ministry's official website - support.

    • Anket.edu.azView project

      The ministry's survey platform - support.

    • Azsmart.azView project

      Online cash register product site - support.

    HTML5 · CSS3 · JavaScript · jQuery · React · Context API · Redux Toolkit · GitLab

Azerbaijan International Telecom - AzInTelecom

07/2022 - 12/2022 · Baku, Azerbaijan · On-site

Frontend Developer (Intern)

Internship

Sima Reporting System - client and admin dashboards.

  • Finished with a Certificate of Distinction.

HTML5 · Sass · BEM · JavaScript · React · Redux Toolkit · GitLab · Gitflow

Certificate of Distinction

Skills

Frontend
ReactNext.js 14+ (App Router, SSR, Middleware, SEO)TypeScriptJavaScript (ES6+)HTML5CSS3 / SassTailwindBootstrap
State & data
Redux ToolkitContext APIReact QueryReact Hook FormFormikZodAxios / REST
UI & design
shadcn/uiAnt DesignFigmaAdobe XD
Backend & databases
Node.jsExpressNestJSJava · Spring BootPostgreSQLMySQLMongoDB
DevOps & tools
Git (GitHub, GitLab)Docker & ComposeCI/CDLinux / BashNginxPostmanSwaggerJira
AI
Prompt engineeringLLM APIs (Gemini, Llama)RAG & embeddingsPython

Research

Research

A software engineer by profession, reading and building my way into research. The direction is NLP for low-resource languages - the Turkic family, such as Azerbaijani, and the West Slavic group, such as Slovak and Czech - and this page is where that work is kept while I prepare for a PhD in it.

  • NLP for Azerbaijani

    Morphological segmentation · Corpus building · Transfer from high-resource languages

  • Transfer across the Turkic family

    Multilingual pretraining · Shared subword vocabularies · Zero-shot evaluation

  • Czech and Slovak

    Cross-lingual alignment · Rich morphology · Low-resource fine-tuning

  • Adaptive learning systems

    Bayesian Knowledge Tracing · PPO · Retrieval-augmented generation