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Hello! I am Dima

Dzmitry Ashkinadze - Software Engineer and DesignerDzmitry Ashkinadze - Software Engineer and Designer

Building scalable

AI solutions
with Circledata...

PhD in bioinformatics transforming complex problems into elegant solutions

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Currently, I'm a Senior Data Science Consultant atBASE Life Science,

4+ years of industrial experience building ETL pipelines and scalable AI applications. Based in Basel, Switzerland with Swiss Permit C.

Work Experience

Senior Data Science Consultant

BASE Life Science

GenAI Platform Lead

Basel | 01.2026 - present

Team coordination and development of the agentic GenAI platform structuring clinical trial protocols for a large pharmaceutical company

NLP Engineer

MDPI

Rust Pipeline: 1500x Speedup

Basel | 07.2024 - 12.2025

Co-lead development of the big data pipeline that increased completeness by 10% for over 50M scientific profiles. Developed transformer-based spam detection (3x reduction) and ML model for name annotation (+8% accuracy). Rewrote external database dump processing pipeline in Rust achieving 1500x speedup (1 month → 30min)

Data Scientist

Accenture

5 GenAI Applications Deployed

Zürich | 05.2022 - 06.2024

Led GenAI stream of 3 developers for 6 months developing 5 GenAI applications. Co-developed patient-trial matching platform extracting health data from EHR. Built ETL pipeline for FHIR/HL7/OMOP medical data with NLP annotation using SNOMED/LOINC ontologies

Research Assistant / PhD Candidate

ETHZ

PhD in Bioinformatics

Zürich | 05.2018 - 04.2022

Developed a novel statistical approach for the extraction of protein correlated motion. Published four first-author papers in bioinformatics

Skills & Expertise

Consulting

Effective CommunicationAgile & Goal-oriented

Software Development

Software DesignFeature-driven Development

NLP / GenAI

TransformersLLMsAI Agents

Data Engineering

ETL PipelinesSQLDuckDBKnowledge Graphs

DevOps / MLOps

CI/CDCloud InfrastructureModel Deployment

Certifications

  • SAFe PO/PM
  • Neo4j Professional + GDS
  • AWS ML Specialty
  • AWS Solution Architect
  • AWS Cloud Practitioner

Languages

  • EnglishFluent
  • GermanFluent
  • RussianNative

Education

  • PhD in Bioinformatics
    ETH Zürich | 2018 - 2022
  • MSc ETH
    ETH Zürich | 2016 - 2018
  • BSc ETH
    ETH Zürich | 2013 - 2016

Featured Projects

Technical Project

GenAI Clinical Trial Platform

Agentic GenAI platform for structuring clinical trial protocols. Led team of 3 developers building the core AI infrastructure that automates protocol analysis and extraction for a large pharmaceutical company.

GenAIPythonMLOpsHealthcare
GenAI

Technical Project

Big Data Pipeline - 50M Profiles

Co-led development of big data pipeline that increased data completeness by 10% for over 50M scientific profiles on scilit.com. Built scalable ETL processing system handling massive academic metadata.

PythonSparkETLNLP
Python

Technical Project

Rust Pipeline Optimization

Rewrote external database dump processing pipeline in Rust achieving 1500x speedup - dropping runtime from 1 month to 30 minutes. Dramatically improved data processing efficiency for MDPI.

RustPerformanceETL
Rust

Technical Project

Transformer Spam Detection

Developed and deployed transformer-based spam detection solution for sciprofiles.com that led to 3x reduction in spam volume. Improved platform content quality through ML-based filtering.

TransformersMLPython
Transformers