Hi, I'm Aziz!

I help crypto & finance platforms find their people and their momentum!

Senior Performance Marketing Manager (former) at BitMEX. Paid media, SEO/ASO, and generative-engine visibility, run as one growth system; increasingly powered by AI agents. Experienced in crypto exchanges, PE firms, and finance.

1000%+ SEO traffic growth MoM · 2,000+ paid signups/mo · 250%+ AI-search visibility
Paid Media & Growth

Paid Media & Growth (BitMEX)

As the growth marketing lead for paid acquisition, I ran BitMEX's paid media as a system, not a set of campaigns testing audiences continuously, tweaking the messaging and scaling what worked across CIS, and global English and Spanish markets.

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Paid Media Overview

  • Owned paid strategy across Meta, Google, Yandex, Yango, Moloko, Apple Ads, and crypto-native ad networks, with dedicated CIS/Russian-speaking market campaigns alongside global English audiences.
  • Built and iterated lookalike audiences from high-value signup cohorts; ran continuous creative and audience testing.
  • Delivered 2,000+ signups/month and estimated 30% ROI within the first few months of optimized campaigns.
2,000+
Signups per month
30%
ROI, first months
4
Language markets run
Organic Growth: SEO

Organic Growth: SEO (BitMEX)

Working jointly with the content team, I managed to push total organic traffic up 300%+ and non-branded traffic up 1000%+ month-over-month, with continued growth quarter over quarter.

Organic Growth: SEO · SEO Overview

SEO Overview

  • Non-branded traffic up 1000%+ is the clearest signal of genuine new-audience organic growth, not just brand recirculation.
  • Overall SEO traffic up 300%+ in the most recent reporting month, building on stronger Q2 vs. Q4 2025 performance.
  • Organic signups and First Time Trades increased 80% MoM, along with the trading volumes.
300%+
Total SEO traffic growth
500%+
Non-branded traffic growth
Q2 > Q4
2025 growth trend
Organic Growth: ASO

Organic Growth: ASO (BitMEX)

Late 2025, BitMEX had zero organic keyword rankings on Google Play. Within four months of a focused ASO push, I managed to rank BitMEX's app for top category keywords 'buy Bitcoin,' 'crypto exchange' across multiple target countries, with parallel gains on iOS.

Organic Growth: ASO · ASO Overview

ASO Overview

  • Improved keyword rankings by 200%, improved app store ratings by 2 stars (from 2.5 to 4.5 in key regions), organic signups & FTTs increased by 30% in the last 4 months.
  • Published new Custom Product Pages tailored to high-intent search terms (buy Bitcoin, trade stocks, buy Dogecoin, trade oil, trade forex, etc.).
AI & GEO Visibility

AI & GEO Visibility (BitMEX)

As AI assistants became a real discovery channel, I led early work to improve BitMEX's visibility inside ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, and Grok. It's a channel almost no competitor was optimizing for yet.

AI & GEO Visibility · Gemini

Gemini

The visibility on Gemini and AI Overviews have been extremely correlated - hence higher visibility, traffic and rankings on Google automatically resulted in Gemini mention & citation improvement. Gemini brand mentions and citations grew 100%+ month-over-month. This was achieved by a combination of methods such as improving the mentions on crypto-relevant websites, Reddit, and a specialized focus on Google rankings.

Recommendations

Hard to believe, I know. See what my employers say

Testimonial 1 / 2

As CGO at BitMEX, I had the pleasure of having Aziz on my marketing team and working directly with him. He brought a much needed commercial mindset to my team, treating budget as capital to be accounted for, not just a license to spend. He systematically evaluated every channel, from paid ads and SEO to ASO and brand reputation - cutting what wasn't earning its keep and doubling down on what was. Aziz also got ahead of where the industry was heading, treating AI-assistant visibility as a genuine growth channel well before most competitors caught on, and brought that same efficiency mindset to how the team operated day to day. He's the rare marketer equally comfortable running campaigns and running the numbers behind them. Any team looking for someone who can scale growth while keeping a sharp eye on ROI would be lucky to have him!

Raphael Polansky
Chief Growth Officer at BitMEX
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Testimonial 2 / 2

Working alongside Aziz changed how our team thought about organic growth. SEO used to be something we knew mattered but treated as a background task. Aziz turned it into a real discipline, bringing a level of technical depth to keyword strategy and search visibility that raised the bar for the whole team, and it showed up fast in the numbers. What I appreciated most, from a PR and brand perspective, was how much he thought about how our brand actually gets found, not just how it's perceived once someone lands on it. That mindset extended naturally into making sure BitMEX showed up accurately inside AI assistants too, which is quickly becoming its own kind of front door for a brand. He also introduced AI-powered workflows that cut down reporting and QA time dramatically, freeing up the team for actual strategy instead of busywork. It's rare to find someone who improves both the quality of the work and the speed of the team at once. Aziz made our organic and brand-visibility efforts sharper, and genuinely more modern. Any team would benefit from having him think through their growth strategy.

Clare Lee
PR & Brand Manager at BitMEX
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Earlier chapter

Growth Marketing for Private Equity & Finance (Galactic Fed)

Before BitMEX, I ran SEO and Paid Media growth for a Private Equity Fund Administration solution client in 2024 across 2025.

  • Owned SEO and contributed heavily to the PPC strategy for a private equity fund administration solution client, tripling paid and organic traffic & conversions.
  • Managed direct client relationships, translating finance-sector positioning into performance marketing strategy.
  • Improved client acquisition to key services such as private equity, private credit, AIFM, EU tax, etc.
Galactic Fed · PE Client
About me

About Me

Aziz Hamidov with the RBBi team accepting the MENA Search Awards for Qatar Airways, Dubai 2023
MENA Search Awards, Dubai, 2023

I've spent 6+ years in performance and organic marketing, the last chapter of it focused on crypto and finance. I run paid media, SEO/ASO, and, most recently, generative-engine visibility as one connected growth system, and I build AI-agent workflows to make that system faster to operate.

Languages
EnglishRussianTurkish
Earlier experience

Six years building organic growth, technical SEO, and content strategy across SaaS, e-commerce, and agency environments, including senior SEO roles at Red Blue Blur Ideas (Dubai), Auslogics Software (Sydney), BookDeal (Irvine, California), and Webzool Creative (Los Angeles, California). Highlights: grew 8k+ new organic keywords and +28% total traffic at Auslogics; scaled BookDeal to 25k monthly organic sessions with 964 conversions in peak season; managed technical SEO audits for 12+ enterprise client sites at RBBi.