Summary
Roman Nikolaienko is a senior software engineer with 15 years of experience building distributed, high-throughput systems across cloud-native and legacy stacks. He has driven backend architecture and delivery at companies from Grid Dynamics to Snap and now Orca Security, working with technologies such as Golang, Java/Scala, Protobuf, Kubernetes, Temporal, Cassandra and multi-DC deployments. Known for cutting through complexity with a solutions-first mindset, he combines hands-on coding with system-level design and practical operational experience. He also leads and mentors teams to turn chaotic roadmaps into coordinated outcomes across different planning horizons. With academic roots in applied mathematics, he brings rigorous analytical thinking to performance-sensitive systems and large-scale data processing problems. Quietly, he often bridges language and platform gaps—moving projects forward by selecting the simplest reliable path to meet constraints.
15 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
National Technical University "Kharkiv Polytechnic Institute"
Bachelor of Science - BS, Applied Mathematics, Bachelor of Science - BS, Applied Mathematics at Sumy State University