Roman Kofman
Software Engineering Manager at Verkada
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRoman Kofman is a software engineering manager with 13+ years of experience building and scaling web and mobile products from startups to large organizations. He blends hands-on expertise in API design, Ruby on Rails, Go, Python, gRPC/Protobufs, and AWS with a proven track record of improving delivery cadence—moving teams from month-long releases to multiple daily deployments. Roman is skilled at shaping team culture and processes (career ladders, promotion frameworks, incident retrospectives) to create high-trust, inclusive organizations that learn from blameless postmortems. He has led cross-functional alignment on product and technical roadmaps, relaunched ineffective working groups into impactful API governance bodies, and scaled teams while reducing operational noise. An active contributor to open-source (notably a bigint-support proof-of-concept and tests for redux-toolkit query serialization), he pairs technical contributions with thoughtful mentoring. Based in San Francisco, he habitually accelerates team growth by recommending targeted business and technical reading in 1:1s—an unusual but effective coaching habit.
13 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
B.S. Computer Science, B.S. Computer Science at Illinois Institute of Technology
Github Skills (10)
typescript10
javascript10
bigint10
data-serialization10
typescripts10
redux-toolkit10
react10
typescript-types10
serialization10
testing9
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
reduxjs/redux-toolkit
Mar 2024 - Apr 2024
The official, opinionated, batteries-included toolset for efficient Redux development
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:5 reviews, 1 PR, 14 comments in 21 days
Contributions summary:Roman primarily focused on enhancing the functionality of the Redux Toolkit library, particularly concerning the handling of bigint data types within the query features. Their contributions included implementing a proof of concept for bigint support, refactoring code to remove duplication, and adding tests to validate the bigint serialization. They also modified the `defaultSerializeQueryArgs` function and `buildHooks.ts` files to support bigint serialization.
reactbatteries-includedbatteriesreduxtoolset
Candid-Engineering/books-db
May 2024 - Dec 2024
Use a barcode scanner to keep track of books.
Contributions:51 reviews, 76 PRs, 145 pushes in 7 months
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