Summary
Dmitrii Kotelnikov is a hands-on founder and CTO with nine years in fintech, combining deep backend expertise with large-scale platform leadership. He scaled origination systems at Tinkoff to support 50+ products and 500k+ daily applications while growing cross-functional teams to ~130 people and owning reliability, automation, and on-call transformations. Dmitrii co-designed a hiring process used for 1,000+ engineers and personally conducted 250+ interviews, blending people-building with technical rigor. Now leading Plummi, he applies AI-assisted workflows to rapidly iterate a sensitive, evidence-based pregnancy nutrition product end-to-end—from iOS and backend to monetization and DevOps. Comfortable shifting between code, architecture, and product strategy, he’s notable for turning regulatory and high-availability constraints into pragmatic, user-centered systems.
9 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Business Informatics (Applied Informatics in Economics), Bachelor's degree, Business Informatics (Applied Informatics in Economics) at Ryazan State Radiotechnical University (former Academy)