Dmitry Kan

Dmitry Kan is a knowledgeable and experienced IT professional and Computer Science PhD with over 16 years of expertise in search engine algorithms, search relevancy, query interpretation, speed of search, and scalability.

He possesses a strong background in Machine Learning and Natural Language Understanding algorithms and systems, demonstrating exceptional skills in team leadership, communication, public speaking, and interpersonal relations.

Outside of his professional roles, Dmitry is an active contributor in various platforms, including being an Arctic Code Vault Contributor on GitHub, a writer on Medium, and a valued blogger on DZone.

He is the founder of Insider Solutions and Wowwlr, in addition to being engaged in public speaking engagements and university lecturing.

Dmitry's educational background includes studies in Entrepreneurship at Stanford University, a PhD in Computer Science from Saint Petersburg State University, Master's degrees in Computer Science from the University of Eastern Finland and Kuopion yliopisto, as well as a Bachelor's degree in Applied Mathematics from North Ossetian State University.

Throughout his career, Dmitry has held key positions in prestigious organizations, such as Principal AI Scientist at Silo AI, Founder and CEO at Insider Solutions, Lead AI Scientist at Silo AI, Head of Search at AlphaSense, and University Lecturer at the University of Helsinki.

His previous roles include Co-founder and CTO at SmallStep.AI, Technical Reviewer at Packt, Moderator & Speaker at The Apache Software Foundation, and various positions at AlphaSense ranging from Head of Search Technology to Senior NLP Search Engineer.

Earlier in his career, Dmitry was a Software Engineer at Fishpool Creations Oy / Comptel Corporation, a PhD Candidate and Researcher at different universities, and a C++ and Java programmer at Arbonaut Ltd.