Dmitry Kazhdan

Work Experience

Tenyks logo

Co-Founder and CTO

Tenyks

Lead R&D of a cutting-edge camera stream analytics platform for the Hospitality Industry

June 2021 - Aug. 2025

Cambridge, England

🏆Key Achievements

  • Worked closely with the CEO to shape the strategic vision of Tenyks. Contributed to raising over $3.4M from top-tier VCs by shaping and pitching the technical vision to investors.
  • Oversaw ideation, design, architecture, research prototyping, & delivery of the two Tenyks products: an MLOps platform for Computer Vision model debugging, and an AI-first surveillance platform for camera stream analytics. The latter product processed 100s of camera streams in realtime via novel model cascade architectures combining multi-modal LLMs (e.g. Gemini) with powerful object detectors & VLMs, successfully detecting crucial events such as patient accidents in care homes, or operational inefficiencies in Quick-Service Restaurants.
  • Together with the Founding team, grew Tenyks to 15 FTEs (at peak). Designed and ran the technical hiring pipeline (incl. take-home assessments, interviews, followups). Led a technical team of 9 FTEs (across SW, ML, Design, and Support).
  • Collaborated with Tenyks engineers in architecting the Tenyks products across the stack including: FE (React), BE (FastAPI/Flask), DBs (Mongo/Timescale), Infra (K8s), Cloud (AWS/GCP). Led the delivery efforts of SOC-II certification (using the Vanta platform).

Technologies & Skills

PyTorchUltralyticsHuggingFaceVertexGeminiOpenAINVIDIA TritonLangChainLangGraphFoundation ModelsVLMsVectorDBs
Nokia Bell Labs logo

Research Intern

Nokia Bell Labs

Explored Variational Continual Learning for personalised ML systems using sparse user data.

June 2019 - Sept. 2019

Cambridge, England

🏆Key Achievements

  • Developed adaptive models responsive to individual usage patterns
  • Researched novel approaches to continual learning with limited data
  • Collaborated with senior researchers on cutting-edge ML applications
  • Presented findings to the research team and contributed to technical documentation

Technologies & Skills

PythonTensorflowVariational MethodsContinual LearningMachine Learning
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Software Engineer Intern in Machine Learning

Arm

Built a face recognition pipeline for Arm platforms using SVMs, CNNs, and CV pre-processing techniques.

June 2018 - Sept. 2018

Cambridge, England

🏆Key Achievements

  • Implemented face recognition pipeline using SVMs, CNNs, and CV pre-processing techniques (HOG, Gaussian Pyramids)
  • Integrated with the Arm Compute Library for optimized performance
  • Developed robust preprocessing pipeline for various lighting and angle conditions
  • Achieved performance improvements on Arm-based devices

Technologies & Skills

C++PythonOpenCVCNNsSVMsArm Compute LibraryComputer Vision
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Software Engineer Intern

Redgate Software

Developed installer features in C# for the Toolbelt suite.

June 2017 - Sept. 2017

Cambridge, England

🏆Key Achievements

  • Developed installer features in C# for the Toolbelt suite
  • Contributed to CI/CD using GitHub, TeamCity
  • Wrote unit-tested .NET code following best practices
  • Collaborated with the development team on software delivery improvements

Technologies & Skills

C#.NETGitHubTeamCityCI/CDUnit Testing