Roman Levitas
Senior Software Engineer at Reddit, Inc.
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolRoman Levitas is a Senior Software Engineer with 11 years of experience building backend and data systems, currently shaping experimentation infrastructure at Reddit in San Francisco. Born in Ukraine, raised in Germany, and educated at UIUC (EE, CS minor) with ongoing OMSCS work at Georgia Tech, he brings an international perspective and strong academic grounding to practical production engineering. His career spans startups and scale-ups—integrating telco payment APIs, productionizing ML decision engines, and refactoring Spark billing DAGs—showing fluency across Rails, Python, Spark, and modern web stacks. Comfortable shipping product-facing features and low-level data pipelines alike, he pairs analytical rigor with pragmatic deployment experience. An early background in release engineering and experimental physics research hints at a methodical, measurement-driven approach to complex systems.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Fullstack Web Developer Nanodegree, Fullstack Web Developer Nanodegree at UdacitySummer Program Sociology, Summer Program Sociology at University of Oxfordsummer program Nanotechnology, summer program Nanotechnology at Technical University of MunichBachelor of Science (BS) Electrical Engineering, Bachelor of Science (BS) Electrical Engineering at University of Illinois Urbana-ChampaignInternational Baccalaureate Diploma German English Visual Arts Mathematics, International Baccalaureate Diploma German English Visual Arts Mathematics at North Kansas City High SchoolOnline Master of Science in Computer Science Machine Learning, Online Master of Science in Computer Science Machine Learning at Georgia Institute of Technology
German, Russian, Ukrainian
Stackoverflow
80reputation
10kreached
7answers
5questions
Github Skills (79)
gevent10
python-client10
reddit10
python9
praw9
binding9
jquery8
ffi8
partition8
aws-sdk8
analyzer8
ruby7
async7
linter7
select27
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
reddit/experiments.py
Mar 2022 - Jan 2023
Contributions:41 releases, 59 reviews, 298 commits in 10 months
pythonredditpraw
mrlevitas/deployment_cycle
Jan 2016 - Dec 2021
An interface that allows users to view and share timelines which coordinates the release cycle of their product around ‘events’. Different teams can filter these events by tags (i.e. Dev, Test, Q/A, Release) to view events and documentation pertinent to their role.
Contributions:78 PRs, 95 pushes, 22 branches in 5 years 11 months
reacteventsdevdev-testcycle
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