Roman Khlystik
Area Tech Lead - ML, Core Product at Grammarly
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRoman Khlystik is an experienced machine learning and backend engineering leader with over a decade in production software and 8+ years at Grammarly, now serving as Area Tech Lead for ML on core product initiatives like Grammarly Go. He combines deep hands-on expertise in building advanced ML models and generative-AI integrations with proven leadership in driving high-impact projects and mentoring teams. Earlier roles include technical leadership on high-load security systems and building POS solutions, reflecting a strong systems and reliability mindset that complements his ML focus. An active contributor to open-source tooling—improving grammarly/rocker for container workflows and S3-backed image handling—he blends product-driven innovation with pragmatic DevOps improvements. Based in San Francisco, Roman is passionate about pushing technical boundaries to create user-facing products that meaningfully improve people’s lives.
13 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Specialist Computer science, Specialist Computer science at National Aviation University
English, Ukrainian, Russian
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Github Skills (13)
docker10
go10
devops10
containerization10
dockers10
build-automation10
s3-bucket9
apidoc9
amazon-s39
aws-s39
api9
debug8
debugging8
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
grammarly/rocker
Jan 2016 - Jul 2016
Rocker breaks the limits of Dockerfile.
Role in this project:
Backend & DevOps Engineer
Backend & DevOps EngineerContributions:4 releases, 155 commits, 19 PRs in 6 months
Contributions summary:Roman primarily focused on improving the `rocker` tool's functionality and stability. Their contributions include fixing bugs related to container interruptions and comment styles, and implementing a new container formatter. The user also added options to reduce verbosity and refactored the codebase to improve maintainability, including updating dependencies. Furthermore, they made changes to the build process to enable features like uploading and pulling of images from S3.
limitsdockerfiledockerrocker
romank87/dotvim
Jan 2015 - Mar 2016
Contributions:6 pushes in 1 year 2 months
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