Who I am
I build things with whatever I’ve learned so far. Sales taught me numbers, school is teaching me code, and I keep finding new ways to put the two together. Most of my projects start as my own ideas, and I take each one as far as I can.
I’m a computer science senior at Belmont University, concentrating in cybersecurity with a minor in Business Systems & Analytics. Most mornings before class I manage Billy’s Corner, a gas station, deli, and tire shop in Nashville. The store runs on software I wrote.
The project I care about most is Ymir, a personal AI assistant my family and I text all day. Reminders, research, money, music. Building it taught me to put security first and to write the tests before anything ships. It also turned into undergraduate research at Belmont on whether you can trust AI coding agents. That’s the work I want to keep doing.
Around campus
President of CyBru, Belmont’s cybersecurity club, and of SWANA, the student association for the South West Asian and North African communities. Before that, treasurer of the Muslim Student Association.
Off hours
I make beats, I build small tools for moving music libraries around (one is open source), and i still love m cars.
ALIKHAN MAKHAMADALIEV · NASHVILLE, TN · privacy · MMXXVI