Dmitry Khodakov
Chief Technology Officer
Summary
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SeniorDmitrii Khodakov is a technology leader and machine learning practitioner with over a decade of experience building high‑scale, revenue-driving systems and leading multi-site engineering organizations. As CTO for Search, Analytics and Buyer Experience at Avito, he oversees 200+ engineers and platforms that power search, recommendations, real‑time analytics and buyer-facing products serving tens of millions of users and petabytes of data. He has a deep hands‑on background in online ML rankers, vector search, real‑time pipelines and microservice architectures that moved monolith features into low‑latency, production ML systems. Known for combining product A/B experimentation with applied AI, Dmitrii has repeatedly delivered double‑digit buyer growth and launched neural net rankers and in‑house search at scale. Based in Tbilisi and trained at MIPT in machine learning and networking, he pairs rigorous academic foundations with practical systems engineering and hiring practices that scale teams and impact.
13 years of coding experience
Github Skills (7)
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Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
dmitryhd/avio
Mar 2018 - Jul 2018
Contributions:83 commits, 49 pushes, 7 branches in 4 months
dmitryhd/vacancy_analysis
Mar 2013 - May 2016
Contributions:226 commits, 108 pushes, 7 branches in 3 years 1 month
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