Summary
Roman Joost is a Senior Software Engineer with 22 years of experience building backend systems and developer tooling, currently at Microsoft in Brisbane. He brings deep expertise in Python and legacy web frameworks (Zope, Grok, Plone) alongside modern DevOps and CI/CD practices shaped during senior roles at Red Hat and Clipchamp. At Red Hat he led an agile team on Beaker lab automation, improved developer experience across partner labs, and built Fedora QA tooling—demonstrating a blend of hands-on coding and system-level reliability work. Roman excels at integrating microservices, automating deployment pipelines, and mentoring engineers to raise team delivery velocity. He favors pragmatic, user-centered design choices informed by systematic debugging and customer collaboration, making him effective at turning complex testing and release challenges into production-ready solutions.
22 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Computer Science with Honours (Diplom Informatiker/FH), Computer Science, Bachelor of Computer Science with Honours (Diplom Informatiker/FH), Computer Science at Hochschule Anhalt
English, German, Russian