Roman Ptitcyn
Software Engineer - Infrastructure at BNP Paribas
Lisbon, Portugal
Summary
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Top SchoolRoman Ptitcyn is an infrastructure-focused software engineer with eight years of experience building cloud-native deployment platforms, CI/CD pipelines, and monitoring solutions across finance and networking industries. Based in Lisbon, he has driven large-scale integrations—most recently helping migrate and integrate a Deutsche Bank platform into BNP Paribas infrastructure—while developing Ansible-based deployment tooling and production-grade observability. A hands-on DevOps and backend engineer, Roman contributes to the high-profile Cilium project, improving Kubernetes integration, logging consistency, and test validation for an eBPF-based networking stack. His background blends deep telecom and network systems expertise with pragmatic Python and Go development, making him comfortable from low-level networking to enterprise CI/CD automation.
8 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Engineer's degree, Telecommunocation networks & Switching systems, Engineer's degree, Telecommunocation networks & Switching systems at St. Petersburg State University of Telecommunications named after prof. M.A. Bonch-BruevichMaster's degree, Economics, Master's degree, Economics at Peter the Great St.Petersburg Polytechnic University
English, Russian
Github Skills (15)
cilium10
kubernetes10
go10
networking10
ebpf10
kubernetes-pods10
cicd10
dockers9
docker9
debugging8
testing8
bpf7
security7
cni7
observability7
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
cilium/cilium
Jun 2020 - Mar 2025
eBPF-based Networking, Security, and Observability
Role in this project:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:47 reviews, 30 PRs, 106 comments in 4 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Roman primarily contributes to the Cilium project by addressing various issues related to the agent, CI/CD and Kubernetes integration. They focused on enhancing the Cilium status output by including version information and implemented consistent logging practices for endpoint creation and deletion. The user also added validation for ConfigMap flag values and made enhancements to the test suite for ensuring the correct functionality of the project. They have demonstrated proficiency in system administration, and debugging in the process.
bpfcontainerskerneltroubleshootingkubernetes-networking
romanspb80/cilium
Dec 2020 - Mar 2025
API-aware Networking and Security using eBPF and XDP
Contributions:2 PRs, 190 pushes, 27 branches in 4 years 3 months
snmpapiospfsecurityebpf
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