Dmitri Babaev
Head Of R&D at GigaCode
Moscow, Moscow, Russia
Summary
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Top SchoolDmitri Babaev is a senior R&D and machine learning leader with 12 years in software and 7 years managing data science teams across banking, telecom and internet companies. He combines deep hands-on experience building high-load distributed systems at Yandex and Grid Dynamics with practical ML research and productization at Sberbank, MTS, and Yandex Maps. Known for selecting high-impact ML problems, he has designed model fabrics, customer 360 solutions, and production ML pipelines that bridge research and business value. Dmitri leads cross-functional teams from prototyping to deployment and has a history of launching robust, scalable services in mission-critical environments. He maintains open-source work on GitHub and shares technical talks and slides publicly, reflecting a commitment to community knowledge sharing. Based in Moscow, he brings a rare mix of low-level engineering, performance optimization and strategic ML leadership.
12 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Master’s Degree, Master’s Degree at Moscow State University of Geodesy and Cartography (MIIGAiK)
English, Russian
Github Skills (21)
self-supervised-learning10
pytorch9
url-parsing9
machine-learning9
matching9
cli8
python8
scikit-learn8
twitter8
data-science8
nethack8
rpg7
crawler7
social-network-analysis7
elasticsearch6
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
dllllb/imaginarium
Nov 2020 - Mar 2025
Contributions:14 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 5 months
dllllb/cppbdm
May 2015 - Oct 2025
Contributions:8 pushes, 1 branch in 10 years 7 months
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