Roman Kutanov
CTO And Co-Founder at Synstate Labs
Karlsruhe, Baden-Württemberg, Germany
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Top SchoolRoman Kutanov is a seasoned technology leader and startup founder with over 15 years building AI-driven products and 9 years in senior engineering roles across Europe and YC-backed ventures. As CTO and co-founder, he blends hands-on system architecture, LLMs, RAG, and cloud infrastructure expertise with a track record of launching products used by millions. He has led teams to productionize multimodal AI agents, image generation pipelines, and retrieval-augmented copilots that materially improved relevance metrics for banking and telecom clients. Roman prefers AI that amplifies human creativity and agency, championing models that understand purpose and know when not to act. His background spans both academic mathematical modeling and practical product engineering, from scaling virtual companions at Replika to building marketing and internal tooling startups. Based in Karlsruhe, he combines deep research instincts with rapid delivery, often shipping production LLM infrastructure under aggressive timelines.
9 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS, Business Informatics, Master of Science - MS, Business Informatics at State University — Higher School of EconomicsPhD student, Mathematical Modelling, PhD student, Mathematical Modelling at Moscow Aviation Institute (National Research University)
English, Russian, German
Github Skills (10)
lokalise10
nodejs10
sdk10
js-client10
api10
mixpanel2
proxy1
1c1
nginx1
testing1
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
kutanov/stable-diffusion-webui-nsfw-filter
Jul 2023 - Sep 2023
Contributions:76 pushes, 2 branches in 1 month
l8e-org/locomotive
Nov 2022 - Dec 2022
Contributions:3 pushes, 1 branch in 20 days
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