Summary
Dmitry Valetin is a seasoned engineering leader with over a decade of experience building and scaling high‑availability products and teams, currently heading the Real Estate engineering organization at Avito in Lombardy. He has led 40–50+ engineer organizations across backend, frontend, mobile and QA, driving technical strategy, OKR execution and process improvements that lifted reliability to 99.98% while preserving delivery velocity. His track record spans launching regulatory-compliant property verification, transaction services with 26K+ purchases, video messaging and address-matching services with >90% accuracy, alongside significant performance and cost optimizations. A hands-on architect who started in systems and pre‑sales engineering, he combines deep distributed‑systems and infrastructure expertise (MongoDB, cloud, microservices) with talent development—creating bootcamps and mentoring multiple managers into leadership. He’s comfortable leading reorganizations and fast prototyping in product-driven environments, and often focuses on reducing process waste through automation and targeted technical debt management.
13 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Lomonosov Moscow State University
English, Italian