Summary
Roman Gavrilov is a hands-on VP of Engineering with over 20 years building scalable, distributed systems and products from napkin idea to cloud-native production. He combines deep architecture experience in SOA/EDA, high-frequency and big data pipelines, and serverless streaming ETL with practical expertise across frontend tooling (webpack, vite, Vue/Nuxt) and backend stacks (Node, PHP, SQL, Linux). Roman has led engineering organizations at AWS, gaming, and health-tech companies to deliver near-real-time analytics, high-throughput messaging, and complex healthcare interoperability (HL7, X12) solutions. He prioritizes automation, CI/CD, TDD and talent growth to accelerate time-to-market while maintaining reliability and cost efficiency. A former founder and long-time systems engineer, he brings both product-minded leadership and low-level performance tuning chops dating back to C++/Unix and DBAs work. Based in New York, he blends enterprise-grade rigor with a maker’s fluency across modern web ecosystems and backend infrastructure.
10 years of coding experience
26 years of employment as a software developer
BSc Computer Science, BSc Computer Science at The Open University of Israel
English, Hebrew, Russian