Summary
Dmitrii Batogov is a frontend and mobile engineering leader with 10 years of experience who built and now heads a 24-person Frontend and Mobile department at Yandex, steering architecture, product launches, and hiring strategy. He has repeatedly taken legacy products to modern stacks—rebuilding Toloka into Yandex Tasks and launching its Android client—while also creating core internal infrastructure like support, WFM, KMS, localization, and documentation platforms. A hands-on technical manager, he led the design system used across 30+ Yandex projects and remains active in architecture and UX/UI work despite managerial responsibilities. Dmitrii has conducted hundreds of technical and managerial interviews and taught accessibility and localization at Yandex Frontend School, signaling a strong commitment to knowledge transfer. Based in Belgrade, he brings a rare combination of product-focused engineering, cross-disciplinary influence across design and backend, and proven ability to scale teams from zero to production.
10 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s (Incomplete), Photonics and Optoinformatics, Bachelor’s (Incomplete), Photonics and Optoinformatics at ITMO University