Dmitry Petrashko

Dmitry Petrashko is a highly skilled technology professional with extensive experience in software engineering and leadership roles at Stripe, where career progression includes titles such as Chief of Staff to the CTO, Distinguished Software Engineer, and Principal Software Engineer since September 2017. Dmitry has played a pivotal role in building a tech community, leading the Languages and Runtimes team, and enhancing code quality through improved abstractions and tools. Prior to Stripe, Dmitry was a PhD Researcher at EPFL, focusing on the Scala programming language alongside Martin Odersky, and has experience as a Distributed Store Developer at Wikimart, where innovative indexing methods significantly improved system performance. Dmitry's educational background includes a PhD in Computer Science from EPFL and a Master's degree from MIPT.