Summary
Dennis Shilko is a seasoned engineering lead with more than a decade of experience designing and scaling complex software systems, combining C++ and Python on open-source tech stacks. Based in Moscow, he currently leads engineering at autofaq.ai, steering a smart multichannel contact center and bot assistant, and previously served as Tech Lead and Software Engineering Lead at Reason8.ai through 2024. His career spans high-load, low-latency work at Mail.ru and advanced data-driven tooling at DATADVANCE, including embedding Python as a scripting layer in a C++ core and leading predictive modeling projects. He is an active open-source contributor with work on Qt, PySide, MathGL, and qooxdoo, and has hands-on experience building ETL pipelines, JSON-RPC data services, and visualization with NumPy, Pandas, and D3.js. He holds a Master’s and a Bachelor’s degree from Yanka Kupala State University of Grodno and pursues research interests in IR, cognitive architectures, ML/DL/RL, and NLU, blending technical depth with leadership and product sense.
10 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
Master’s Degree, Master’s Degree at Yanka Kupala State University of Grodno
Russian, English, Polish, Greek