Roman Iakovlev
Staff Software Engineer at GitHub
Sweden
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Top SchoolRoman Iakovlev is a Staff Software Engineer with 12 years of experience building large-scale backend systems and platform features across automotive, media, and cloud domains. Currently at GitHub's OSPO, he focuses on open source license compliance solutions, drawing on prior work designing Spotify's image delivery pipeline including transcoding, GDPR-aligned data handling, and A/B experimentation. His background includes leading Connected Vehicle Services and EV charging APIs at HERE and developing automotive and mobile integrations at Nokia, giving him deep domain knowledge in connected systems and privacy-aware engineering. Based in Sweden, he blends hands-on Scala and distributed systems expertise with product-minded leadership, and has a track record of shipping infrastructure that balances performance, compliance, and operational simplicity. An understated strength is his cross-domain adaptability—moving from ERP and middleware early in his career to complex media and OSS governance challenges today.
12 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Tomsk State University
English, German, Russian, Swedish
Stackoverflow
11,130reputation
677kreached
198answers
88questions
sbt
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akka
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Github Skills (185)
zinc10
timezone10
concurrency10
streaming10
openstreetmap10
cats-effect10
reactive10
async10
cra10
akka10
high-performance10
reactive-programming10
sbt-plugin10
concurrent10
sbt10
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
RomanIakovlev/timeshape
Apr 2018 - Nov 2022
Java library to find timezone based on geo coordinates
Contributions:10 reviews, 122 commits, 134 PRs in 4 years 8 months
java-librarygeojavatimezonecoordinates
RomanIakovlev/easycodecs
Aug 2016 - Aug 2017
Contributions:56 commits, 19 pushes, 5 branches in 11 months
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