Hi! I'm Roman

Since mid-2025 I have been working as a Staff Engineer, a role that allows me to combine my leadership experience with deep technical expertise. I drive technical strategy, mentor engineers, and contribute directly to the codebase. This move reflects my passion for software engineering and enables me to influence both technical direction and engineering culture through leading by example.

Prior to this, I served as a domain engineering manager for one year, bringing together responsibilities as both technical and people lead. In this position I conducted regular one-on-ones, fostered a positive team environment, and mentored engineers, while continuing to guide architectural decisions and implementation.

I first joined Zooplus in 2018 as a senior full-stack developer. In 2021, I advanced into a technical lead role, focusing on software design, system architecture, and advising teams on how to best build their products. I also initiated and contributed to workshops to facilitate knowledge sharing across teams.

While finishing my master's degree, I worked at Innovation.rocks part-time - At first I was developing mini JS applications for mobile devices that rendered augmented reality content in a web view. Later, I was in charge of creating a CMS backend responsible for serving these applications and their assets. The CMS included a role-based access model, as well as internationalization capabilities for the provided content.

I worked at Theobroma part-time during my bachelor's degree. During my time there, I implemented parts of a javascript runtime targeted for embedded devices, including a Web-IDE for live-debugging javascript-apps running on micro-controllers using the V8 debugger protocol and an nginx-module for routing.

As a student, I paired up with a good friend and colleague of mine to design and implement a document search system for Schubert Elektroanlagen as a freelancer. The system was built on ruby on rails and used Apache Solr to index PDF documents and make them available for search.