# Adilet Gaparov

> Building AI agents that talk to thousands of candidates and make decisions affecting their careers.

## profile

- **name**: Adilet Gaparov  ·  Adi
- **role**: Founding AI Engineer
- **org**: Orbio AI
- **location**: Elche, Spain
- **focus**: AI agents · recruitment · voice AI · building in public

## about

> I build AI agents. I'm a founding engineer at Orbio AI, and our agents talk to thousands of job candidates a day. Before that I did software and risk models at Capchase (financing for SaaS companies), ML at Volvo Cars, and cloud at Microsoft.
>
> I write a Substack called The Working Prototype, and a blog here that is less about work.
>
> I'm from Kazakhstan 🇰🇿 and live in Elche 🇪🇸 with my family of four.

## links

- [github](https://github.com/adgapar)
- [twitter](https://twitter.com/adgapar)
- [linkedin](https://www.linkedin.com/in/adilet-gaparov/)
- [threads](https://www.threads.com/@adilet.gaparov)
- [substack](https://theworkingprototype.substack.com/)

## recent

- `2026-07` *newsletter* — [what kind of poker player is an AI](https://theworkingprototype.substack.com/p/what-kind-of-poker-player-is-an-ai)
- `2026-06` *blog* — [riding the wave](/blog/riding-the-wave)
- `2026-02` *talk* — [10,000 interviews without a human 🇰🇿](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_5IoO2fA1FM)
- `2025-12` sister visited Elche — first time together since Chicago, 2017
- `2025-02` moved from Madrid to Elche. traded traffic for sunshine.