Zhuravlev Dmitry Sergeyevich

Zhuravlev Dmitry Sergeyevich

Dmitry Zhuravlev is the co-founder and CEO of HFLabs.

Biography

From the age of 14, Dmitry studied programming on his own, in 1997 he entered the Tula State University at the Faculty of Mechanics and Mathematics.

From the middle of the first year, Dmitry took programming orders, and in early 1998 he created a self-learning ChatMaster program based on AI, which maintains a dialogue with a person and adopts his style of answering replicas. By 2000, Dmitry's development had collected more than 1 million downloads.

At the same time American startup , Intelligenesis, led by Ben Hertzel, drew attention to the still minor programmer (as of December 2020 - the founder and CEO of a decentralized network based on SingularityNET AI). So the student from Tula became a remote employee New York of the company: Dmitry was engaged in the creation of technology for processing requests in a natural language.

In 2000, Dmitry left Intelligenesis, moved from Tula Moscow to and got a job programmer at VDI (in 2006 - sold the American IT a company), EPAM where within two years he grew to the position of Java an architector.

In 2003, he left the company and was engaged in the development of chat bots for Marat Gelman (creating a "virtual Gelman" based on correspondence in ICQ). In 2003, virtual personalities were also created by orders from other contemporary artists around the world.

In the same year he moved to the competing Luxoft, where until 2004 he led the group for the development of a system of imitation modeling of security complexes for large-area objects.

In 2004, he received the position of Chief information officer at Incore, one of the largest mobile content aggregators in Russia, subsequently purchased by Megafon.

In 2005, Dmitry learned about the tender of the automobile concern Peugeot for the processing of unstructured their data dealers and decided to take part in it. To get a contract, Dmitry and his wife Elena had to register a legal entity. So it appeared HFLabs with an initial capital of only 10 thousand rubles. From 2005 to 2007, the company worked with Peugeot at a loss: the amount of its debts exceeded revenues, and the office was located in the premises of the former factory bath. At the same time, they became interested in the technology, Nissan Infiniti,. { Samsung Electronics hide} In April 2005, Dmitry Zhuravlev, together with his wife Elena, registered a legal entity HFLabs with an initial capital of only 10 thousand rubles. Dmitry took over as CEO of the company. {/hide}

In 2007, HFLabs paid off debts, the company already employed 20 people. At that time, HFLabs had 5 customers - large, mainly international, companies.

In 2012, Dmitry accepted an invitation to the post of adviser to the minister Minsvyaz in and dealt with the regulatory framework for (SMEV system of interdepartmental effective interaction), one of the main systems. portal Public services

In 2013, he served as Deputy Director of FSUE NII Voskhod and led the development of SMEV and related services.

In 2012-14, Dmitry was a moderator and speaker at events related to cryptocurrencies and blockchain.

In 2014, he returned to the HFLabs.

In 2019, HFLabs turnover amounted to 1 billion rubles. The company employs 82 people. Among the major clients: DIA, Sberbank, VTB, Gazprombank, Otkritie Bank, Rusfinance Bank, Soyuz Bank, Tinkoff, Promsvyazbank, East Bank, MTS, MegaFon, Ozon, METRO, Microsoft, IKEA, Business Lines.

Since 2024, Dmitry has been developing Avihimsa, which specializes in developing software for autonomous unmanned robotics.

Hobbies

Since 2011, Dmitry has been conducting experiments with physical robots in the field of reinforcement learning (reinforcement training) in model environments with a high degree of uncertainty.