baku, azerbaijan · full-stack + data

Nihad Aslanzade

Statistician & Full-Stack Engineer, working across two disciplines that are usually kept apart.

I build production software - Next.js, TypeScript - and the statistical models underneath it, in Python and R. MSc in Statistical Methods and Applications from Sapienza University of Rome. Based in Baku, working with teams remotely.

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Statistician · Full-Stack Engineer
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Next.js / TypeScript · Python · R
Docker · Nginx · PostgreSQL
MCMC · Bayesian Inference · RAG
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01 / Ask AI

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Grounded in my background - projects, stack, and the statistics behind MyMCMC.

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02 / About

About

Nihad Aslanzade

I hold an MSc in Statistical Methods and Applications from Sapienza University of Rome (90/110), with a thesis on adaptive MCMC algorithms, a BBA in Economics from the Academy of Public Administration under the President of the Republic of Azerbaijan (95.8/100), and I'm a SABAH.academy alumnus. That background sits underneath everything I build.

I work as a System Architect & Full-Stack Engineer, moving between Next.js and TypeScript on the product side and Python, R and SQL on the data side. Most of my tools live in the terminal - I spend more time in a customized shell than in any IDE.

System Architect & Full-Stack EngineerMSc Data Science, SapienzaBaku, Azerbaijan
03 / Career

Experience

04/2026 - 09/2026

System Architect & Full-Stack Engineer

EduBrink

Owned the core architecture of the student recruitment platform, end to end.

02/2026 - 04/2026

Full-Stack & DevOps Engineer

Ismayilli Vocational State Center

Built the center's digital management system and its IT infrastructure.

11/2025 - 07/2026

Software Architect & AI Engineer

Toppick.io

Built the data architecture for a B2B hiring platform, integrating AI- and NLP-based analysis models.

03/2025 - 02/2026

Lead Software Engineer & Product Analyst

Kranni

Product analytics and data science for a real-time artisan booking app.

05/2023 - 07/2023

Sales Analyst

Sulax

Sales performance analysis.

02/2023 - 05/2023

Economic Analyst (Intern)

Cabinet of Ministers of the Republic of Azerbaijan

Economic analysis internship.

04 / Projects

Projects

EduBrink

Student recruitment platform connecting prospective students with international universities.

Next.jsTypeScriptPostgreSQLSEO
Toppick.io

AI-powered B2B hiring platform. Its pricing model is based on active job vacancies and the total number of applicants processed.

Next.jsTypeScriptPythonPostgreSQL
Ismayilli VET

Digital management system and IT infrastructure for a vocational education institute.

Full-StackDockerPostgreSQL
Kranni

Cross-platform app connecting clients with local artisans in real time, with live geolocation matching.

FlutterDjangoDockerPostgreSQL
05 / Research

MyMCMC - adaptive algorithms, benchmarked

My master's thesis research: a from-scratch R implementation of the classical and adaptive Markov chain Monte Carlo algorithms, benchmarked against real Bayesian posteriors from posteriordb rather than synthetic targets - three algorithms, seven posteriors, four chains of 100,000 iterations each.

9,887
median ESS - Adaptive Metropolis
0
unconverged models, AM & RAM
2.400
worst R-hat, non-adaptive baseline
AlgorithmMean ESSWorst R-hatUnconvergedMean error (ref SDs)
AM9,8871.00500.022
RAM9,0861.00500.023
RWM baseline4,2382.40020.131
ESS against posterior conditioning
Effective sample size against posterior correlation conditioning.
Acceptance rate stability
Acceptance rate stability across models - RAM holds its target, AM does not.
Estimation error vs dimension
Estimation error measured in reference posterior standard deviations.
View source on GitHub →
06 / Notes

Notes

Working notes on the engineering behind statistical systems: what the architecture had to look like, what broke first, and what the numbers said afterwards.

07 / Stack

Stack

Five domains, twenty-one tools, mapped across a sphere.

R
Git
TypeScript
SQL
HTML
Bash
Next.js
React
Django
Flutter
PostgreSQL
Docker
Nginx
MCMC
Bayesian Inference
Machine Learning
LLMs
RAG
CLI-first
tmux
Python
08 / Education

Education

MSc, Statistical Methods and Applications

Sapienza University of Rome

Thesis: Exploration of Adaptive Algorithms

90 / 110

BBA, Economics

Academy of Public Administration under the President of the Republic of Azerbaijan

Thesis: Tax Evasion, Tax Audit and Analysis

95.8 / 100

SABAH.academy

Alumnus

80 / 100
09 / Achievements

Certificates and awards

All certificates (14) →

A selection of the coursework and programmes completed outside the degrees. Each certificate is the original document, and the ones whose issuer publishes a verification page link straight to it.

August 2026

Google Data Analytics Professional Certificate

Google · Coursera

9 courses · spreadsheets, SQL, Tableau, Python

July 2026

Data Analytics Job Simulation

Quantium · Forage

Data preparation, experimentation & uplift testing, commercial analytics

April 2023

GRE General Test - Quantitative Reasoning 165 (81st percentile)

Educational Testing Service (ETS)

Verbal 144 · Quantitative 165 · Analytical Writing 3.0

10 / Contact

Let's talk.

Open to freelance full-stack and data engagements, and to conversations about statistical computing.

Location
Baku, Azerbaijan
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