David Klassen is a pragmatic technology leader and Co-Founder & CTO with a decade of hands-on engineering experience and over 15 years of broader software involvement. He has driven core search engine and backend efficiencies at travel tech firms like Aviasales, led cloud and marketplace initiatives at Yandex, and recently co-founded Naoma AI to apply that expertise to AI-driven products. Comfortable across the full stack, David has hands-on experience designing data pipelines, optimizing CPU usage, and building SDKs and CI/CD practices for production systems. He combines startup grit with large-company discipline—hiring and leading teams, architecting scalable services, and implementing observability and testing best practices. Based in Phuket, he pairs professional engineering with a creative streak as a hobbyist graphic designer, reflecting a taste for clean interfaces and thoughtful user experiences.
10 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Computer Science at Tomsk State University
Contributions:138 commits, 2 PRs, 90 pushes in 8 months
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