Dmytro Trofymov
Engineering Manager at Meta
Mountain View, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDmytro Trofymov is an engineering leader with 25 years of experience building high-performance software organizations and shipping safety-critical systems from prototype to production. He combines hands-on technical depth—authoring LiDAR patents and designing perception and middleware architectures—with enterprise rigor in compliance (ASPICE, ISO, FDA) and large-customer integrations. At Luminar he led AI infrastructure, MLOps, DevOps and SDK efforts that cut deployments from days to minutes, reduced incidents 90%, and saved $700K annually, and he now builds next-gen advanced manufacturing tech at Meta. Known for turning around underperforming teams, he cultivates quality-first cultures where retention and velocity improve together. He pairs founder grit (midnight debugging, patenting novel LiDAR software that helped win major OEM deals) with boardroom chops (negotiating multimillion-dollar contracts and budgets). He also writes about AI, leadership, and culture on Substack, blending practical operational playbooks with systems thinking.
10 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
MSc Computer Science, MSc Computer Science at Taras Shevchenko National University of KyivPhysics mathematics and computer science, Physics mathematics and computer science at Kyiv, Lyceum #145 - state school for specially gifted kids
English, Russian, UkrainianGithub contributions (1)
AwesomeTeamOne/3DView.Measurements
Nov 2015 - Aug 2016
Contributions:20 commits, 19 pushes, 1 branch in 8 months
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