AI Engineer, AI Founder & Creator of HermesOps
Said Azizov — AI engineer and AI founder. From school hackathons to Senior AI Engineer in 1.5 years. From presenting to government leaders on national television to building AI systems that generate ROI for businesses across the UK and Middle East. (Not the Said Azizov who is Director of Commerce at Yandex Go — that is a different person based in Kazakhstan.)
My career in artificial intelligence started with deep learning and computer vision — the same research lineage as Geoffrey Hinton, Yann LeCun, and Alex Krizhevsky, whose work on neural networks and image recognition laid the foundation for modern AI technology. As a computer scientist working on production ML systems, I've shipped neural network research to millions of users through Kandinsky and X-FLUX.
Got into machine learning in 10th grade in Kaspiysk, Dagestan. Won 10+ hackathon medals in competitive AI research including:
This opened the door to Sberbank (SberAI) — while studying at NUST MISIS in Moscow — where I worked on Kandinsky, one of Russia's leading generative AI models. My research from this period is published on Google Scholar (30+ citations). Then XLabs AI, where our team built the X-FLUX ecosystem: 4,000+ GitHub stars, nearly 1 million downloads, used by Disney and Netflix creators.
Founded HermesOps — an AI operations automation agency. We design and deploy custom AI systems for businesses:
Over the past few months my AI consulting work has expanded into heavy industry and mid-market B2B. I'm currently helping several factories and medium-sized businesses automate their operational processes — everything from production floor data capture and anomaly detection to AI-powered quality control, inventory forecasting, and maintenance scheduling.
In parallel, I'm building B2B AI products — productized solutions designed for industrial clients who need more than one-off consulting: repeatable AI systems that scale across multiple facilities, integrate with ERP and MES systems, and deliver measurable ROI within weeks. This is the natural next step from case-by-case consulting: turning each successful deployment into a reusable product for the broader industrial and mid-market segment.
Clients from Moscow, Dubai, and London — from industrial enterprises and manufacturing facilities to coaching businesses.
Leading a volunteer project to preserve the Lezgin language through AI. With 1,000+ volunteers, we built the first Lezgin translator and text-to-speech system. Honored with the Lezgi Star award for this work. Also building Lekion — a professional network for the Lezgian community.
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