Alisher Ortiqov
A software engineer. Lately I've drifted into academic research and quantum computing, and more recently into precision agriculture — mostly asking whether quantum computing has anything useful to offer there. I'm also drawn to the idea of trust in interactions, the kind you trace through detective novels and mysteries.
Currently...
- Learning how to do Research in Academia
- Exploring Quantum Computing and Agriculture
- Working towards having a passive income
- Reading Agatha Christie's mystery novels
- Collecting experiences
Timeline
2026
Exploration Year
- Going to EPFL as an exchange student in Autumn 2026
- Undergraduate Research Intern at CSTL for an HCI research project
- Participated in MIT GSW 2026
- Participated in the Q-Volution Hackathon and was selected among the Top 5 winning teams for the Quandela Challenge with our team's solution
- Participated in KAIST-MIT Quantum Information Winter School 2026
2025
Double Year (Startup + Quantum Computing)
- Received so many rejections and put them on my Wall of Rejections
- Took Basics of Quantum Information course by Prof. Joonwoo Bae
- Participated in Qiskit Fall Fest Hackathons in Yonsei and SKKU universities
- Completed Qiskit Global Summer School 2025
- Picked up Electrical Engineering as double major at KAIST
- Pivoted to Quantum Computing (out of boredom I guess)
- Finalist of GESS 2025 program at KAIST
- Joined teambl startup
2024
Networking Year
- Summer Internship at OnSquare in Seoul
- BookSwap - ebay for books, completed as a course project
- University courses
- Algorithms (MATHS!!!)
- Data Structures (Java)
- Programming Principles (F#)
- Programming Language (Scala)
- System Programming (C)
- ...
2023
Next-step Year
- Moved to South Korea for undergraduate studies at KAIST
- Graduated from high school - Presidential School in Khiva
- Deployed this website - mcpeblocker.uz.
- Online multiplayer game platform and its API system.
2022
Open-source & Experience Year
- Learned grammY
- Learned NextJS and created SEO-friendly websites
- Gained more experience of using Material UI
- Contributed to the development of online multiplayer game
- Learned basics of Ant Design
- Learned basics of Flutter
- Made automated testing & monitoring system for driving schools (got patent for it - dunno why)
2021
Full-stack Year
- Learned ReactJS, Redux, TailwindCSS and some other UI libraries
- Learned TypeScript
- Learned various Firebase tools: Cloud Firestore, Realtime Database, Authentication
- Learned implementing realtime communication using Socket.IO
- Learned TelegrafJS and tried it by making different Telegram Bots
- Learned how to create custom npm packages
- Published telegraf-pagination package
- Learned NestJS
- Learned TypeORM and Sequelize
- Learned to produce API docs using Swagger
- Worked with some more databases: PostgreSQL and MySQL
2020
Backend Year
- Learned JavaScript
- Learned NodeJS and Express to build Rest API
- Made use of MongoDB in my projects
- Learned Git and version control platforms: Github, Gitlab
- Started Freelancing during the pandemic
2019
Baby steps Year
- Met my mentor - founder of eagles.uz
- Learned basics of web development: HTML, CSS
- Produced some pet-projects to experience programming