Booking.com — Software Engineer, AI & Data
Aug 2021 – Present
Backend & AI platform engineering. Netherlands.
Dmitry Kravchenko
Software Engineer & Architect · AI Systems · Physicist by training
Profile
Physicist by education (MSc, Moscow State University — numerical modelling of nucleus–nucleus collisions), software engineer and architect by career, and AI systems practitioner by recent work. 25+ years of hands-on development across distributed systems, machine learning, and applied AI, with a repeated track record of turning early-stage research into working software.
Experience
MicroArt — Embedded & Mobile Developer
Aug 2020 – Aug 2021
- Linux drivers and daemons for battery-charger hardware (C, CMake, ARM cross-compilation).
- Migrated Android, iOS and Windows apps to new hardware revisions.
- Built a Jenkins pipeline for automated Raspberry Pi cross-compilation.
Yandex — Big Data Developer
Apr 2019 – Jul 2020
- Cut machine time 10× processing a 300-billion-record database.
- Reduced one map-reduce stage from 5h to 1h on a 1-trillion-record dataset.
- Automated image-feature computation (neural + image-to-text) for a main-page widget.
Presenso — Machine Learning Engineer (remote)
Dec 2017 – Apr 2019
- PoC applying deep models (LSTM, GRU, conv) to time-series data, showing their advantage.
- Automated model training and hyperparameter search across Matlab and Hadoop/Spark.
EnergentGroup — Python GIS & ML Programmer (remote)
May 2017 – Aug 2018
- Built a Keras VGG-like deep CNN for change classification — 95.8% F-beta.
- Sentinel-2 training-data collection pipeline; AWS Lambda image processing on S3.
Cireca Ltd — Java Programmer (remote)
Mar 2016 – Dec 2016
- Laboratory information system for data mining on medical-image recognition.
- Image-analysis module for supervised learning over 10,000+ images.
Technical Skills
- AI / ML
- PyTorch, TensorFlow, Keras, LLM APIs, LangChain, RAG pipelines, evaluation frameworks, Jupyter
- Languages
- Java, Python, C/C++, C#, Kotlin, JavaScript/React, Scala, Matlab, SQL
- Infrastructure
- AWS (S3, DynamoDB, Lambda), Kubernetes, Docker, Kafka, MySQL, MongoDB, GitLab CI/CD, Grafana
- Agentic tooling
- Claude Code, Cursor, Windsurf, MCP servers
- Scientific
- Numerical simulation, high-performance pipelines, quantum mechanics & applied maths foundation
Selected Side Projects
- SayMyName (2020) — find a phone by voice (Android, Java, Python, PyTorch).
- Computational graph engine (2013–14) — a compute graph predating TensorFlow, for image recognition (C#, Matlab).
- Answering machine (2009) — voice-assistant PoC predating Siri, from open-source components (Java, Red5, Sphinx, MaryTTS).
- Eye-refraction measurement device (2004) — diffraction-grating method; patent application RU2004111845A.
Education & Languages
M.Sc., Physics — Moscow State University. Thesis: computer modelling of nucleus–nucleus collisions.
English — fluent · French — reading · learning Mandarin & Dutch.