About me

Hi, I’m Dimitri. I am a software engineering leader with a background in tech x life science. I worked in tech as an IC and a people leader. I have a PhD in biology and bioinformatics. Today I own my company helping life science and digital health start-ups build their tech products and teams. I led two teams at Corti, advised Cirqle Biomedical and PharosBio, and built teams, infra, and products at Genotek.

I also dance lindy hop and tango, I used to do improv comedy at ICC, I am a storyteller, and an occasional community and events manager.

Here, I write essays about life, values, and a bit of tech, and also my opinions about people leadership and start-ups.

Previous projects

Scientific Publications

• Large-scale association analyses identify host factors influencing human gut microbiome composition, Nature Genetics
• Non-linear interaction between physical activity and polygenic risk score of body mass index in Danish and Russian populations, PLOS ONE, 2021
  • See a Twittorial for a brief summary
  • See an Interactive supplementary for an interactive presentation of the paper using Dash Plotly
• Drug Repositioning through Systematic Mining of Gene Coexpression Networks in Cancer, PLOS ONE, 2016
• A bunch of papers on Illumina NGS sequencing: optimizing the lab protocol, scoring pathogenicity of genetic variants, identify clinically interesting variants
• See more on my LinkedIn page

Fun private IT projects

• DIY dataset-postcard
  • Upload your own image, convert it into a dataset, and send a nerdy heatmap postcard to your favourite data scientist ❤️

Books recommendations

See books I have read on StoryGraph