In 2005–2006, he worked as a Press secretary and Head of the Department of Cultural and Humanitarian Cooperation of the Embassy of Kazakhstan in the Russian Federation.

After he joined Khabar, he became the economic observer and National TV Agency's Moscow bureau chief in Russian Federation.

[3] In 2010, he traveled to the United States to complete a one-year fellowship at Harvard University, where, that fall, he first became interested in editing Wikipedia upon taking the class "Media, Politics, and Power in the Digital Age".

[6] He also served as the founding director of the Eurasian Council on Foreign Affairs, which was formally established on 12 November 2014[7] with a grant from the Kazakh government.

[8] In 2016, he founded the non-profit organization Bilim Foundation with the mission to set up a national program of adolescence suicide prevention and developing lifeskills.