Kondrat Shmoylov - Senior Software Engineer/Manager

I am a software engineer with a passion for building products that are both functional and user-friendly. I have a strong background in computer vision and machine learning accompanied by a solid experience in building distributed systems and managing teams.

Key Competencies

AI & ML: Computer Vision, LLMs, CLIP models, Generative AI

Languages: TypeScript, Python, Rust, Golang, JavaScript

Frameworks: React, Svelte, Node.js, Django, Flask

Infrastructure: AWS, Google Cloud, Terraform, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, DynamoDB, DuckDB

Testing & Management: TDD, BDD, Jest, Cypress, Playwright, Team Leadership, Project Management

Experience

Senior ML Engineer

Lightly AI | lightly.ai

April 2024 - Present

Zurich, Switzerland

Architected and implemented instruments for dataset curation, including UX/UI experience
Developed high-performance data connectivity solutions between ML models and diverse storage systems
Optimized query performance and data retrieval for visual search engines

Engineering Manager

Crowdhouse | crowdhouse.com

June 2019 - Feb 2024

Zurich, Switzerland

Designed and implemented distributed backend systems supporting real estate marketplace platform
Led technical discovery processes with cross-functional teams to determine data access requirements
Built and optimized recommendation services using LLMs, handling high-volume data processing

Team Lead/Lead Engineer/Manager

Yandex | yandex.com

May 2005 - Feb 2016

Moscow, Russia

Built distributed systems serving millions of daily users with sub-second response times
Introduced a lot of improvements and features across Yandex products (maps, mail, blogs, search)
Led the development of multi-region, fault-tolerant services handling terabytes of user data
Led the frontend department

Languages

English (C2)

German (B2)

Russian (native)

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science

South Ural State University, Russia, Chelyabinsk

1998 - 2003