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Dmitriy Genzel

Critic · DISC type C
Director of Engineering / Research at Otter.ai
📍 Mountain View, California, United States

Dmitriy Genzel is the Director of Engineering and Research at Otter. ai, where he leads AI teams developing voice assistant technologies. With a PhD from Brown University, he possesses deep expertise in applied AI, NLP, and machine translation, cultivated through senior leadership roles at Amazon, Twitter, Meta, and Google.

Beyond his technical career, Dmitriy is a dedicated lifelong learner with broad interests in history, linguistics, and the social sciences. He actively pursues online courses for personal enrichment, identifying as a visual learner, and previously shared his knowledge as a Quora Top Writer.

He co-authored research on "Poetic" Machine Translation, developing a system to translate poetry while attempting to preserve its original rhyme and meter.

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Experience
9 Years
Current Role
Director of Engineering / Research
Job Level
Mid-senior
Location
Mountain View, California, United States
Personality Overview

How Dmitriy shows up

Objective Thinker
Information Seeker
Precise

They enjoy working alone and do not rely on others very often. They are quite likely to negotiate on pricing or other key terms. They don’t appreciate bells and whistles unless backed by data.

Priorities

Topics Dmitriy cares about

AI-Powered Assistants
His current role at Otter. ai and previous senior position with Amazon Alexa are focused on developing speech and text technologies like ASR, summarization, and AI agents.
Machine Translation
A core area of his academic and professional life, evidenced by numerous publications and patents on the subject, including for low-resource and poetic translation.
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Career

Work history

5-2025
Director of Engineering / Research
Otter.ai
10-2022 - 5-2025
Sr. Manager, Applied Science, Alexa
Amazon
1-2022 - 9-2022
Senior Manager, ML Engineering
Twitter
10-2018 - 12-2021
Research Scientist Manager
Meta
10-2016 - 10-2018
Machine Learning Tech Lead & Manager
Quora
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Media appearances

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Education
2000 - 2005
PhD
Brown University
1996 - 2000
B.S/M.S
Drexel University
Social presence
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Behavioral profile

DISC profile (public)

C

Calculativeness (C)

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