Roman Hotsiy
CTO at Redoc.ly
Lviv, Lviv Oblast, Indonesia
Summary
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Top SchoolRoman Hotsiy is a CTO and seasoned full-stack engineer with 12 years of experience building developer-facing tools and API documentation platforms from Lviv. He leads Redocly, bringing hands-on expertise across front-end and back-end work—contributions include UI/UX improvements, schema tooling, and CLI features in well-known open-source projects like ReDoc, graphql-cli, and graphql-voyager. Roman has a strong focus on GraphQL and OpenAPI ecosystems, demonstrated by deep edits to configuration, schema handling, and editor integrations that improve developer workflows. As a former co‑founder of APIs.guru, he combines product intuition with engineering rigor to scale developer tools and documentation systems. He is an open-source enthusiast who pays attention to cross-browser UX quirks, build/deployment pipelines, and maintainable refactors rather than quick patches. His background in applied mathematics underpins a pragmatic, data-informed approach to designing reliable, extensible tooling.
12 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Computer Science at Minor Academy of Sciences of UkraineBachelor of Applied Mathematics, Bachelor of Applied Mathematics at National University 'Ivan Franko' , Lviv
English, Українська
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Github Skills (54)
parserator10
javascript10
parser10
npm10
apidoc10
json-schema10
css10
command-line-interface10
typescript10
swagger10
wpgraphql10
api-documentation10
resolver10
api10
front-end-development10
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
Redocly/redoc
Oct 2015 - Sep 2022
📘 OpenAPI/Swagger-generated API Reference Documentation
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:60 releases, 191 reviews, 2017 commits in 7 years
Contributions summary:Roman's contributions focused on updating and maintaining the ReDoc OpenAPI/Swagger-generated API Reference Documentation project. Their commits primarily involved updating dependencies, incorporating new features, and making adjustments to improve the user interface. Specifically, the user updated the project to the latest Angular beta, installed external dependencies, and implemented code modifications, including improved parameter spacing, HTML/CSS adjustments, and the addition of features such as a download button and support for markdown in descriptions.
redocopenapi-specificationdocumentation-generatorreactjsswagger-openapi
Redocly/create-openapi-repo
May 2016 - Mar 2022
🤖 Generator for GH repo to help you manage the OpenAPI definition lifecycle
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:5 reviews, 89 commits, 19 PRs in 5 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Roman primarily contributed to the development and maintenance of an OpenAPI repository generator. Their work involved implementing features, fixing bugs, and improving the project's structure. The commits demonstrate expertise in JavaScript and related tooling, including `yeoman-generator`, with code modifications to the core generator logic. Moreover, the user's changes reflect an understanding of build processes and deployment configurations, which are relevant to the openAPI documentation domain.
redoclifecycleopenapi3-1openapi31api-documentation
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