About
Ivan Shcheklein is CTO and co-founder of DataChain, Inc., which develops ETL and analytics tools for unstructured data. He previously built and maintained DVC.org while working on developer tools for ML at Iterative.ai, and co-founded The Tweeted Times, a news recommendation engine acquired by Yandex. Earlier, he was a contributor and former team lead on the Sedna DB project.
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Dmitry PetrovCo-Founder & CEO
Experience
- DataChain, IncCTO & Co-foundercurrent2025 — presentSan Francisco Bay Area
- Iterative.aiCTO & Co-Founder2018 — 2025San Francisco Bay Area
- Node.ioStaff Software Engineer2015 — 2018San Francisco
- YandexSenior Software Engineer2011 — 2015Moscow, Moscow City, Russia
- The Tweeted TimesCo-Founder2010 — 2013Moscow, Zurich, SF
- ISPRASEngineer, Project Team Lead2005 — 2010Moscow
Skills & more
Web Services26Programming16Information Management7Software Development93Data Management15Scalability17XML74Java69Databases6Linux9Software Engineering6Algorithms7
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GitComputer ScienceC++SubversionSQLDistributed SystemsPythonData ScienceStart-upsOpen Source DevelopmentEntrepreneurshipManagementLanguages English
- Введение в машинное обучение — Coursera
- Neural Networks for Machine Learning — Coursera Course Certificates
- Machine Learning — Coursera Course Certificates
- edX Verified Certificate for Scalable Machine Learning — edX
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Frequently asked questions
- Who is Ivan Shcheklein?
- Ivan Shcheklein is CTO and co-founder of DataChain, Inc., which develops ETL and analytics tools for unstructured data. He previously built and maintained DVC.org while working on developer tools for ML at Iterative.ai, and co-founded The Tweeted Times, a news recommendation engine acquired by Yandex. Earlier, he was a contributor and former team lead on the Sedna DB project.
- Where does Ivan Shcheklein work?
- Ivan Shcheklein is Founder of Iterative.
- What companies did Ivan Shcheklein found?
- Ivan Shcheklein founded Iterative.
- Where did Ivan Shcheklein go to school?
- Ivan Shcheklein studied at Lomonosov Moscow State University (MSU) (MS, CS).
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