Dmitriy was born in Leningrad, Soviet Union; his family immigrated to the US in 1992 as Jewish refugees. He received a Bachelor of Arts degree in Film Production worked as a 2nd assistant cameraman in such feature films as Fast Horses (with Victor Argo), 1999 (with Dan Futterman and Jennifer Garner), and others. He also received a Master's of Fine Arts in Computer Graphics and Interactive Media. He then returned to film and video editing, and continued making short films. Some of those films made their way to Sundance, Cannes Film Festival's programs, BAFTA awards, Student Academy long list, and others.
Few years Dmitriy spent working abroad – first in Switzerland, France, and Portugal filming and editing sports car racing storiesfor Antradocs films, then, as an editor and editor on the set for commercials and TV series in Russia and Estonia. He also was a cameraman and editor for a number of corporate documentaries on Russian industries; that took some traveling with a camera for clients all over the country before 2014. In the meantime, he was also invited by Antradocs films to edit a multipart documentary in Japan on the local economy, religion, and the aftereffects of the recent tsunami.
Back in New York Dmitriy edited video programs for the Boris Yeltsin Presidential Center project, opening in Yekaterinburg, Russia in 2015 and actualized by American, Spanish, Russian, and German professionals. The New York team compiled more than a hundred short documentary subjects based on archives and interviews related to the first Russian president. The museum video program was supervised by Twitchpost, Persona Films, and Ralph Appelbaum Associates. He then proceeded to freelance for NBC Universal (NBC Learn) and Vice Media. Simultaneously, he edited a documentary on the growing crisis in Eastern Ukraine and another one, on disabled children in Siberia.

In 2020 Dmitriy went back to school to refresh his directing skills and earned an MFA degree from Feirstein Graduate School of Cinema.

Currently, he holds the position of senior video editor at a content production Group SJR in New York.