Building a deep-tech product end to end.
Turning an ambitious idea into requirements, architecture, critical experiments, prototypes, suppliers, manufacturing, verification, and an operating product program.
Systems architect · engineering & R&D leader · complex product realization · San Diego
I turn difficult technology into working systems.
I connect systems engineering, product strategy, multidisciplinary R&D, manufacturing, delivery, and commercialization.
For 23 years I have worked at the interfaces where software, electronics, mechanics, physics, AI, suppliers, operations, and people have to converge. I stay hands-on at the critical technical interfaces and build strong specialist teams when the system requires depth at scale.
San Diego, California
Systems engineering at the core.
I use systems engineering to keep intent, interfaces, decisions, evidence, and delivery connected from concept through realization.
Operating styleHands-on at critical interfaces
Team-led at scale; direct technical work where it changes the outcome.
Working rangeDeep-tech systems & products
Robotics, sensing, physical AI, medical devices, manufacturing, and technical platforms.
BaseSan Diego, California
My work has spanned international teams, suppliers, customers, and cross-border programs.
23years across engineering, products, and technical leadership
200+product and system efforts across my career
175people in the largest multidisciplinary organization I led
250K+devices on a platform I led through architecture and development
8closed commercial transactions, including a company and IP-portfolio sale
Kinds of problems I work on
The most interesting problems rarely fit inside one discipline.
Across different domains, the same kinds of systems problems recur: making an idea executable, recovering a stalled program, coordinating multidisciplinary delivery, and keeping technical truth connected to product decisions.
Recovering a complex program that has stalled.
Making constraints, interfaces, decisions, risks, evidence, and ownership visible—then creating an executable path through the uncertainty.
Leading multidisciplinary teams through delivery.
Aligning engineers, scientists, designers, vendors, executives, and customers around one model of the system and measurable acceptance.
Connecting technical truth to product and business decisions.
Keeping architecture, evidence, cost, manufacturability, customer value, and commercialization connected without letting the business story outrun the engineering.
Leadership & operating history
I have built systems, products, teams, and the organizations around them.
The titles and metrics are only the surface. This is the operating history behind them.
Concluded the Parshkov Inc operating chapter.
After thirteen years of building through Parshkov Inc, selected technologies, programs, and IP moved to Promwad as part of a public 2026 transition. I retained NovaECAM and DeepSense as long-term R&D/IP interests. The transition closed one operating chapter and left me free to choose what I build, lead, or advise next.
NovaECAM · retained R&D/IP · non-operating technical stewardship.
Created the architecture for a light-driven electrochemical additive-manufacturing process and the machine, materials, controls, and experimentation stack around it. I retain the invention as a non-operating long-term R&D/IP interest and continue technical stewardship.
Parshkov Inc · CEO · systems architect · R&D lab founder.
Built a multidisciplinary product-realization organization across embedded systems, robotics, medical sensing, IoT, thermal systems, computer vision, advanced manufacturing, and AI-enabled engineering. Across my career I have contributed to more than 200 product and system efforts and led organizations and operating networks up to 175 people.
DP Technologies · international product development and manufacturing.
Built a business connecting industrial design, electronics, Android software, prototyping, and Shenzhen manufacturing. Its Android point-of-sale platform exceeded 250,000 deployed devices; I later completed a $3.8M IP and product-portfolio transaction.
Spanish Village: an offsite business incubator in Spain.
I created a three-month immersion program for 40–50 founders and invited international experts to help them cross into new markets. In seven months I assembled the team, curriculum, logistics, legal pathway, mentoring process, and an investor-facing E-Projects Fair on the Costa del Sol.
My first independent R&D company.
I built and led a 32-person software and engineering organization that combined client delivery with product development. It taught me to manage the tension between short-term commitments, reusable technology, and the economics of an R&D business.
From product lead to a 42-person technology organization.
I first managed 12 developers building 16 digital products, then led a 42-person multidisciplinary department spanning infrastructure, software, business systems, and internal services. I integrated ERP, CRM, editorial, HR, and accounting workflows, launched a digital agency, and reduced technology operating costs by 20%.
Project portfolio
Different domains. The same systems discipline.
Featured highlights the projects that best represent how I think and work today. All opens the full 20-project selection. Each project states my operating mode so it is clear what I personally built, what I led, and where specialist teams owned detailed subsystem work.
Capabilities & technical range
Systems engineering at the core. Broad technical range around it.
My deepest professional practice is systems engineering and architecture, product realization, and engineering leadership. Around that core I have accumulated real working fluency across software, electronics, sensing, controls, AI, mechanics, physical engineering, manufacturing, regulated development, and the business side of technical products.
My depth varies by discipline. On some programs I worked directly at implementation level; on others I led specialists and owned architecture, interfaces, decisions, integration, and evidence. The project records make that distinction explicit.Systems engineering, architecture & product realization
I frame the system, translate stakeholder intent into ConOps and requirements, define boundaries and interfaces, model decisions and dependencies, sequence risk retirement, and keep architecture connected to verification, manufacturing, and delivery.
ISO/IEC/IEEE 15288Agile MBSESysMLConOpsRequirements engineeringTraceabilityInterface managementCameoIBM DOORSTRIZFMEAPERTV&VDesign history / decision records
Engineering leadership & complex programs
I have built and led multidisciplinary engineering and R&D organizations, customer programs, vendors, budgets, technical reviews, and delivery—from small expert groups to organizations of 175 people.
Executive leadershipTechnical program leadershipR&D organizationsCustomer deliverySupplier / CM managementArchitecture reviewsBudget / P&LStrategic planning
Embedded, software, sensing & controls
My hands-on range across product programs includes embedded software, electronics and sensing, control logic, signal processing, communications, and integration between physical devices and higher-level software.
PythonC / C++ / C#VHDLMATLAB / SimulinkEmbedded systemsIoTSignal processingControl systemsSensor integrationSLAM
AI, data & autonomous systems
I treat AI as a subsystem inside a governed product—connected to data quality, sensing, evaluation, latency, cost, privacy, human authority, and field feedback rather than as an isolated model.
Computer visionDeep learningEdge AIGenerative AIRAGNLPData scienceMultimodal fusionGoverned agentsFederated learning
Physical engineering, manufacturing & industrialization
I connect modeling and physical evidence with prototype builds, supplier capability, DFM, design transfer, and production readiness—because a product is not complete when the CAD model is complete.
CAD / CAMDFM / DFACFD / FEAThermal systemsHydrodynamics / fluid systemsMaterialsElectrochemistryCompositesPrototypingSupplier / CM executionDesign transferProduction ramp
Regulated systems, verification & certification
I have structured programs around regulated-development evidence, design history, verification planning, reliability, safety/risk, and certification pathways while keeping specialist regulatory authority explicit.
ISO 13485FDA 510(k) pathwaysDHFDesign controlsVerification & validationReliabilityRisk / safetyCE / FCCTest planning
Product, venture & technical business work
I also work on the business system around technology: product strategy, economics, diligence, IP, transactions, partnerships, and commercialization—especially where technical truth has to survive executive decisions.
Product strategyVenture buildingTechnical due diligenceSystems & business analysisUnit economicsP&L / budgetingIP strategy / patentsM&A / IP transactionsPartnerships / negotiationGo-to-market
How I work
The plan should become the thing that runs.
I combine ISO 15288 lifecycle discipline, Agile MBSE, SysML, TRIZ, and evidence-first experimentation without turning engineering into ceremony.
Frame
Define the real problem, stakeholders, constraints, value, and system boundary.
Model
Make requirements, interfaces, assumptions, ownership, and acceptance explicit.
De-risk
Sequence the unknowns and run the smallest experiments that can change a decision.
Build
Integrate product, software, hardware, suppliers, verification, and delivery.
Scale
Close the field-to-product loop and improve the system, team, and economics together.
Requirements, models, code, CAD, tests, decisions, supplier evidence, and customer acceptance should remain connected well enough that a team can explain what changed, why, and who had authority.
Recommendations
How clients describe working with me.
Selected recommendations from clients and collaborators on multidisciplinary technical judgment, leadership, and how I work with teams and customers.
“He has the kind of depth across disciplines that actually ships systems.”Gennadiy Goldenshteyn ↗ · Managing Partner, First Principles, LLC · Founder & Managing Partner, Dinemic Ventures
“I've worked with Dmitry both as a contractor and collaborator on a number of projects, including SureFill (an intelligent multi-disciplinary filling station). What stands out is his approach to product as a system. He takes a messy, half-formed problem and builds real architecture. He understands that product decisions cascade—how a choice in one layer affects manufacturing, performance, UX, and team velocity. When integration got hard and disciplines collided, he had the judgment to solve it himself. Working with Dmitry changes how you think about the problem. When the problem is hard and it matters, I'd work with him again without hesitation.”
“Dima doesn’t just solve problems. He reimagines them.”Client recommendation · Fabric8Labs
“What sets Dima apart is his seamless ability to think across disciplines. He brings the precision of a systems engineer, the intuition of a mechanical and electrical engineer, the logic of a software developer, and the vision of a business leader. He’s the kind of person who not only sees the whole system but understands how every part sings.”
“Dmitry is an excellent manager and leader who has built a very qualified and capable team.”Signed client recommendation · EMTensor GmbH
The EMTensor engagement combined client and program leadership with direct systems work across architecture, requirements, reviews, integration, and technical problem-solving while specialist engineers owned detailed subsystem execution.
“Dmitry has been directing all aspects of the research and development process and acting as our main point of contact.”Signed client recommendation · NeurOK / Lipolysis Robotics
LipoBot was also unusually hands-on: I personally carried the core system through architecture, software, mechanics, prototype production, assembly, integration, and testing. The project includes a full prototype-build film.
“The team proved itself very well organized, achieving excellent results in a timely fashion under Dmitry’s direction.”Signed client recommendation · Moon Devices
I directed the team, remained the primary client contact, reviewed and approved designs, prototypes, BOMs, and project documents, and stayed technically involved in architecture, reviews, integration, and engineering problem-solving.
Ways to work together
The work can take different forms. The standard stays the same.
Sometimes that means building and leading inside one organization; sometimes it means a focused advisory engagement; sometimes it begins as a technical collaboration or a serious conversation around an idea. In every case, I care about real responsibility, clear authority, and outcomes that can be tested.
Long-term work
I am open to joining a company or team where difficult technology, multidisciplinary engineering, product realization, complex programs, or technical organizations need meaningful ownership. The mission, scope, authority, and people matter more to me than the title.
View resume / CVU.S. permanent resident · no sponsorship required · San Diego · open to travel / relocation.Consulting & advisory
I take focused engagements for founders, investors, and engineering leaders who need an independent systems view, architecture work, program recovery, technical due diligence, product-realization help, or a production-readiness review.
Explore consulting ↗Typically short, bounded, outcome-driven work with explicit scope, outputs, timing, and fee.Collaborations, ventures & technical conversations
Not every useful relationship begins as a job or a consulting engagement. I am also open to serious collaborations, venture and product conversations, technical partnerships, and introductions where there is a real problem worth solving together.
Start a conversationIf the right form is not obvious at the start, that is fine.
Beyond the work
I care about systems because I care about what they make possible for people.
I am a licensed civilian pilot, a motorcyclist, a sailor, a husband, and a father of three. Flying, riding, and sailing keep one principle very concrete for me: elegant theory matters, but the system must remain understandable and trustworthy when reality becomes noisy.
I also maintain access to an extensive network of scientists, engineers, laboratories, and manufacturing partners. I bring the right expertise into the architecture instead of pretending one person should know everything.
PilotMotorcyclistSailorHusbandFather of three
Start a conversation
Tell me what is difficult.
If something here connects with what you are building, investigating, or trying to make real, I am happy to hear from you. Bring a problem, an idea, a role, a collaboration, or simply a serious technical question.