Dmitriy Kazinov
Senior Engineering Manager (SMB Advertising) at Yandex
Saint Petersburg, Saint Petersburg, Russia
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Top SchoolDmitriy Kazinov is a seasoned engineering leader with 15+ years of experience building products and scaling teams, currently heading a Yandex department of four cross-functional teams (20+ engineers) focused on SMB advertising. He combines hands-on technical judgment with organizational design—shaping high-level architecture, observability, and on-call practices to improve reliability and developer experience. Dmitriy has a proven talent for 0-to-1 initiatives, having built a mobile engineering vertical from scratch, hired the team, and replaced legacy code with a modern product. His current strategic focus is architecting agentic AI infrastructure that moves LLMs from experiments into production to automate complex B2B workflows. Equally comfortable mentoring managers as he is specifying technical roadmaps, he aligns engineering growth with business outcomes. Based in Saint Petersburg with deep frontend and backend roots, he still stays technically grounded while enabling teams to tackle large migrations and cutting-edge AI integrations.
10 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Saint Petersburg State Electrotechnical University "LETI"
English, Russian
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (68)
shopify-api9
breadcrumb9
polaris9
advertising9
javascript8
capacitor-plugin8
css8
redux8
nodejs8
shopify8
cropperjs7
npm-package7
phantomjs7
translation7
ngx-translate7
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
kazinov/cradle-auditify
Sep 2015 - Sep 2015
Contributions:1 release, 26 commits, 45 pushes in 4 days
kazinov/coverbands-frontend
Apr 2019 - Nov 2019
Contributions:48 pushes, 1 branch in 7 months
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