She trained in Pervouralsk, Sverdlovsk Oblast, under Pyotr Kiprushev until 2015; she then moved to Moscow and began to be coached by Ilia Klimkin.

In early December she competed at the 2018 CS Golden Spin of Zagreb where she finished fourth with a personal best score of 188.90 points.

Competing internationally, Guliakova won silver medals at the Denis Ten Memorial Challenge and the Tallinn Trophy.

[4] Third in the free skate, she rose to the bronze medal position following an unexpectedly poor performance from Alexandra Trusova, who dropped to fourth place.

[5] On December 3, it was announced that Guliakova had to withdraw from the fifth stage of the Cup of Russia series after training mate Elizaveta Tuktamysheva contracted COVID-19.