Katya Mustafina
R&D Manager at Appear
Oslo, Norway
Summary
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Top SchoolKatya Mustafina is an R&D manager based in Oslo with 10+ years of engineering and leadership experience building high-performance software for cloud, ML and video systems. She has led teams at Appear on video compression and transport, headed software and data science at Hagal, and drove cloud infrastructure and ML solutions as a Software Development Lead on Azure at Microsoft. Earlier roles span data science, personalized medicine software, and long-term work as a senior engineer and architect optimizing geospatial and performance-critical systems at Schlumberger. Katya combines deep applied mathematics and computer science training with an MBA-style business perspective, enabling her to bridge research, product and operations. Colleagues describe her as a pragmatic technical leader who moves research-grade algorithms into reliable, production-grade systems. She often works at the intersection of algorithmic complexity and real-time systems, a niche reflected in her career across scientific, cloud and media domains.
10 years of coding experience
28 years of employment as a software developer
MBA Program Develop Your Business, MBA Program Develop Your Business at Stockholm School of EconomicsSaint Petersburg State Electrotechnical University "LETI"
English, Russian, Norwegian
Github Skills (14)
drift10
agile-development10
docker10
product-management10
agile10
graphql9
iphone5
python4
ios3
icloud3
fuel2
survey1
fundamentals1
connected1
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
katyamust/spark-in-production
Jan 2021 - Jun 2021
Contributions:4 reviews, 5 PRs, 5 pushes in 5 months
katyamust/pandas_sample_script
Sep 2016 - Dec 2017
Contributions:17 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 3 months
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