Dmitrii Slutskii is a Data Architect based in Berlin with 13 years of experience designing distributed data processing systems and building the teams that run them. He blends empathic leadership, asynchronous project management, and functional programming practices—especially in the PyData ecosystem—to deliver robust, production-ready platforms. His background spans startups and consultancy roles where he’s worn many hats, from hands-on backend development in Scala, Elixir and Python to shaping product and hiring processes as Head of Engineering/Data. Dmitrii is comfortable leading greenfield projects and codifying engineering culture, having taught functional programming and introduced Shape Up and other pragmatic workflows. He leverages a broad network and a penchant for high-ownership environments to recruit diverse, mission-aligned teams and craft highly customized solutions. An enthusiast of the “functional way,” he also shares work and insights publicly via lakret.net, GitHub, and a Modern Retro Tech YouTube channel.
13 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree Computer Science, Master's degree Computer Science at Ural State Technical University
Contributions:15 pushes, 14 branches in 2 years 8 months
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