Early Career Profiles:
Recent bachelors-level graduates in the mathematical sciences

Dmitri Chmelev

Name: Dmitri Chmelev Undergraduate institution: University of Washington Position: Programmer Company: Isilon Systems, Inc. Industry sector: Information Technology

What he does:

• Dmitri works in kernel programming, the development of a ditributed file system.

Math on the job:

• Dmitri writes code and comes up with the algorithms.

Dmitri's background:

• Dmitri has a Bachelor's degrees in Computer Science and in ACMS, with an emphasis in discrete math and algorithms. He graduated in March, 2007.
• Initially, Dmitri was interested in majoring in Computer Science, but soon felt the math courses required in that program didn't satisfy his needs for learning. So he then decided to add a second degree program, adding ACMS-DMA.

Advice for students:

• His advice is that for any student graduating in a technical field, in order to be successful, there is a strong need to have a solid mathematical background.

University of Washington   |   Department of Mathematics