Summary
Dmitry Kachaev is a Distinguished Engineer with over 15 years of hands-on experience building large-scale data platforms and leading cross-functional engineering teams at companies like Google, Fitbit, and Capital One. He blends deep technical expertise in analytics, data engineering, and systems architecture with product-minded leadership—helping organizations turn messy data into reliable, production-grade services. As a former technical co-founder and Presidential Innovation Fellow, he pairs startup grit with public-sector innovation experience, often tackling hard integration and modernization challenges. Currently he drives Core and Tech Data Excellence initiatives while also pursuing maker projects in woodworking and color science at metree.works. Dmitry’s background in applied mathematics and an unfinished PhD in computational methods underscore a strong analytical approach to engineering trade-offs. Outside work he’s known for a human side that mixes parenting, baking pirojki, skiing and a commitment to privacy-minded Python craftsmanship.
15 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Business Administration (M.B.A.) Entrepreneurship, Master of Business Administration (M.B.A.) Entrepreneurship at University of Maryland - Robert H. Smith School of Business
Krasnoyarsk Summer School
Bachelor’s Degree Applied Mathematics, Bachelor’s Degree Applied Mathematics at Сибирский федеральный университет
PhD Program (unfinished) Computational methods, PhD Program (unfinished) Computational methods at Institute of Computational Mathematics, Siberian Branch of Russian Academy of Sciences
Master’s Degree Applied Mathematics and Computer Science, Master’s Degree Applied Mathematics and Computer Science at Krasnoyarsk State University
Russian, English, python