Dmitry Grechka

Senior Software Engineer

London, England, United Kingdom

About

A full-stack software engineer / ML engineer with 10+ years of software engineering and 5+ years of ML experience. Master of Computer Science acquired in Moscow State University (MSU). Worked for more than 10 years with Microsoft Research (MSR), UK, as a remotely working contractor on behalf of MSU. Participated in more than dozen MSR projects with four different MSR groups both as individual contributor and as a team lead. Accelerated the research in MSR by taking responsibility for identifying and resolving technical problems and impediments, thus making it possible for the scientists and researchers to focus on their research domain and ideas. Capable of architecting, designing and implementing both research prototypes and production quality software. As well as doing requirements gathering, planning of deliverables and milestones, managing time and efforts for myself and for the team during a project, delivering results in time. Participated in strategic planning of university lab future, setting long term goals. Enjoy working in multinational diverse groups of specialists in adjacent fields of expertise. Lifetime learner. Hold Kaggle competition expert tier. Co-author of the paper in Nature Medicine.

Experience

  • Software Engineer at Cogna
    Aug 2024 - Present · 1 yr 11 mos

  • Full Stack Software Engineer + PM at Microsoft
    Dec 2023 - Aug 2024 · 9 mos

    Microsoft Copilot

  • System Architect at Akku-Batt.rent
    Feb 2023 - Nov 2023 · 10 mos

    Designed the system for kickscooter sharing & car sharing service, lead the team to build it and maintain. ● Under my management and team supervision, the system was developed, deployed and started to bring revenue in 3 and a half months after the project started. ● Produced horizontally scalable cloud system design without a single point of failure that suits required performance, load, and reliability. ● Developed system components: IoT gateway for communicating with fleet of vehicles, telemetry processing and storing, Web API for serving mobile apps and admin web sites, communicating with payments acquiring system / renter insurance policies provider.

  • Research & Development software engineer at Moscow State University
    2009 - Mar 2022 · 13 yrs 3 mos

  • Research Intern at Microsoft
    Oct 2010 - Jan 2011 · 4 mos

    Climate data analysis and processing