Ivan Shcheklein
CTO & Co-founder at DataChain, Inc
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolIvan Shcheklein is a seasoned software leader and entrepreneur with 20 years of experience building scalable AI and data management systems from prototype to production. As CTO and co-founder of DataChain.ai and formerly Iterative.ai, he focuses on AI data management, dataset curation, enrichment and versioning at scale. He combines hands-on full-stack and front-end engineering—evidenced by his maintainership and UI/documentation contributions to the widely used DVC project—with product leadership across startups and enterprise integrations. His background spans real-time distributed systems, high-throughput enrichment pipelines, and team leadership dating back to early founder roles and an MS in Computer Science from MSU. Based in San Francisco, he blends deep technical execution with a founder’s instinct for customer-focused tooling that makes ML workflows reproducible and accessible. An underappreciated strength is his knack for turning complex infrastructure into clear developer experiences, shown by his work improving documentation, UX, and accessibility for open-source ML tooling.
20 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Lomonosov Moscow State University
English
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (32)
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Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
iterative/dvc.org
Jun 2018 - Dec 2022
📖 DVC website and documentation
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:2726 reviews, 1320 commits, 1263 PRs in 4 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Ivan primarily focused on front-end development, specifically improving the DVC website and its documentation. Their contributions included fixing UI elements, refactoring code, and improving the user experience related to button functionality. They updated the footer, navigation, and the main page's layout and styling. Additionally, they worked on fixing links, updating images, and ensuring the site's accessibility.
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iterative/dvc
Jun 2018 - Dec 2022
🦉 Data Versioning and ML Experiments
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:3 releases, 294 reviews, 141 commits in 4 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Ivan primarily focused on improving the project's user interface by modifying README documentation. Their contributions include updating links, documentation, and flow images within the README file. The user also made several changes to improve documentation and added images to help users to better understand the project. They also made adjustments to code to make the project more readable.
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