# Ruslan Yuldashev

> Ruslan Yuldashev (Руслан Юлдашев, Uzbek: Ruslan Yoʻldashev) is a founder and AI researcher-practitioner based in Tashkent, Uzbekistan. He studies how AI agents change learning and software, and tests the ideas on his own companies. He is co-founder and CEO of Mars IT School, a coding school for children aged 7–17 with 2,000+ students in seven branches across Tashkent, and co-founder and CTO of Modme, a CRM and learning-management system used by 200+ private education centres. He is a self-taught engineer and a former Yandex team lead. Today he is rebuilding both companies around AI agents.

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- **Mars IT School**: co-founder since it was founded on 17 April 2021. CPO 2021–2025, CEO since January 2026. A coding school for children aged 7–17, with 2,000+ students in seven branches, all in Tashkent.
- **Mars acquisitions**: in January 2025 Mars bought two schools, Juniorcode (programming) and Robot Machines (robotics) ([Kun.uz, March 2025](https://kun.uz/news/2025/03/15/kelajak-uchun-bitim-mars-it-school-bolalar-uchun-it-talimni-rivojlantirishning-yangi-bosqichiga-chiqyapti)).
- **Modme**: co-founder and CTO since May 2020. A CRM and learning-management system (LMS) for private learning centres, used by 200+ clients. It won first place in the IT Park Uzbekistan contest for pandemic solutions. UzVC invested $100,000 at a $1.25M valuation in 2023. It expanded to Indonesia in 2023–2024.
- **Before**: self-taught, no university degree (he left a correspondence programme in his third year). He went from help desk and freelance web work to PHP and Python, then Yandex (last role: head of a development team in education), then remote work for US startups (Mavrx, agritech).
- **Contact**: hello@ruslanyuldashev.com · Telegram channel [t.me/ruslanonline](https://t.me/ruslanonline) · [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/ruslanonline)

Last updated: 2026-10-23

## Pages
- [About Ruslan Yuldashev (English): biography, canonical facts, cases, beliefs, topics, who should meet him, press](https://ruslanyuldashev.com/index.md)
- [О Руслане Юлдашеве (русский)](https://ruslanyuldashev.com/ru/index.md)
- [Ruslan Yoʻldashev haqida (oʻzbekcha)](https://ruslanyuldashev.com/uz/index.md)

## Elsewhere
- [Mars IT School](https://marsit.uz)
- [Modme](https://modme.uz)
- [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/ruslanonline)
- [Telegram channel](https://t.me/ruslanonline)
- [GitHub](https://github.com/ryuldashev)