Summary
Roman Roštár is a Senior Technical Product Manager and seasoned engineering leader with 12 years of experience building cloud-native, data-driven products from Slovakia. He blends hands-on engineering (Python, Java, React, Kubernetes, AWS) with product strategy, having moved from staff and senior engineering roles into management and founding a startup before shaping core platform direction at Apify. Roman has a strong history of solving hard algorithmic problems in production—from vehicle routing at OrderLord to ML-guided content distribution at Operam—and brings that systems-first mindset to product decisions. Comfortable shifting between code, infra, and customer-facing roadmaps, he excels at turning complex technical tradeoffs into pragmatic product outcomes. Based in Bratislava, he pairs academic training in information systems with startup grit and a taste for tackling the “two hard problems” of computer science in real products.
12 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Master's Degree, Information Systems, Master's Degree, Information Systems at Faculty of Informatics and Information Technologies, Slovak University of Technology
Startup Engineering, Startup Engineering at Summer Startup School @TheSpot
Spanish, German, English, Czech