Summary
Dmitrii Khodakov is a technology leader and machine learning practitioner with over a decade of experience building high‑scale, revenue-driving systems and leading multi-site engineering organizations. As CTO for Search, Analytics and Buyer Experience at Avito, he oversees 200+ engineers and platforms that power search, recommendations, real‑time analytics and buyer-facing products serving tens of millions of users and petabytes of data. He has a deep hands‑on background in online ML rankers, vector search, real‑time pipelines and microservice architectures that moved monolith features into low‑latency, production ML systems. Known for combining product A/B experimentation with applied AI, Dmitrii has repeatedly delivered double‑digit buyer growth and launched neural net rankers and in‑house search at scale. Based in Tbilisi and trained at MIPT in machine learning and networking, he pairs rigorous academic foundations with practical systems engineering and hiring practices that scale teams and impact.
13 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Machine Learning and Neural Networks, Master's degree, Machine Learning and Neural Networks at Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (State University) (MIPT)
English, spanish (castellano), Russian