Summary
Dmitry Kislyuk is a director-level ML engineering leader with 11+ years building computer vision, perception, visual search, multimodal foundation models, and generative visual AI systems from research to production. At Pinterest he helped start the CV team in 2014, shipped Visual Search in 2015, and now leads efforts to scale embeddings and large multimodal models across discovery products. He blends hands-on model and systems expertise with product-savvy leadership, growing teams that publish research while delivering high-traffic, user-facing features. Based in the San Francisco Bay Area, he also occasionally invests in early-stage computer vision startups, signaling a strong operator-investor perspective.
11 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Computer Science, Bachelor's degree Computer Science at University of California, Berkeley
Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (Course 6), Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (Course 6) at Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Master of Science (MS) Artificial Intelligence, Master of Science (MS) Artificial Intelligence at Stanford University
Russian