Denis Kataev
Engineering Manager at Tinkoff - second major Russian bank
Rotterdam, South Holland, Netherlands
Summary
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Top SchoolDenis Kataev is an engineering manager with 15 years of experience leading Python-heavy product teams and shipping production-grade conversational AI at scale. Based in Rotterdam, he transformed an orphaned virtual assistant into an award-winning chatbot at Tinkoff, scaling the org to 30+ engineers while keeping turnover and burnout low. He pairs hands-on technical chops in Python, NLP and backend systems with disciplined Kanban and data-driven decision making to deliver sustainable solutions that balance speed and long-term maintenance. Earlier roles include rebuilding CRM and big-data classification pipelines, giving him a strong foundation in system rewrites and data engineering. Known for pragmatic architecture choices and cultivating engineering culture, he repeatedly turns messy legacy projects into reliable products. Colleagues note his focus on the “long game” — solving immediate business pain while building teams and processes that endure.
15 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Engineering - MEng, Information technology and computer engineering, Master of Engineering - MEng, Information technology and computer engineering at Ural Federal University,Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Information technology and computer engineering, Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Information technology and computer engineering at Пермский Государственный Технический Университет (ПГТУ)
Russian, English
Github Skills (179)
probabilistic-programming10
parser10
uwsgi10
python10
json-schema10
emoji10
fasttext10
mcmc10
extensible10
bayesian-inference10
flask10
paging10
word2vec10
scikit10
statistics10
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
flake8-docs/flake8-rst
Aug 2018 - Nov 2020
Run flake8 checks on code in *.rst files or in docstrings
Contributions:20 commits, 13 PRs, 47 pushes in 2 years 2 months
linterpythondocstringsdocumentation-toolrst
kataev/bkz
May 2011 - Nov 2013
Contributions:430 commits in 2 years 5 months
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