Roman Rozhdestvenskiy
Head Of Search Interfaces Department at Yandex
Moscow, Moscow, Russia
Summary
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Top SchoolRoman Rozhdestvenskiy is a seasoned software leader with 13 years of experience driving large-scale frontend and full-stack engineering at Yandex, currently heading the Search Interfaces department responsible for Search, Images, Video and the Yandex main page. He leads roughly 180 engineers across frontend, backend and QA, blending product-minded engineering with infrastructure and developer-experience improvements. His track record includes unifying repositories and build systems, introducing robust testing and CI/CD practices, and creating tooling that enables offline and deterministic local development. Roman pairs deep hands-on expertise in performance and UX optimizations with organizational craft—regularizing tech forums and automating code review—to scale teams and reduce operational friction. Based in Moscow, he also maintains a personal site showcasing his work and practical experiments in search interface engineering.
13 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Master, Computer Science: Information Systems and Technologies, Master, Computer Science: Information Systems and Technologies at Saint Petersburg state forest technical university under name of S.M Kirov
English, Russian
Github Skills (128)
testing10
bem10
test-framework10
wdio10
automation10
appium10
javascript10
test-automation-framework10
webdriver10
browser10
headless-browser10
devtools10
hermione10
adobe-xd10
mobile-automation10
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
sbmaxx/webdriverio
Jan 2016 - Feb 2016
Contributions:101 pushes, 36 branches, 1 comment in 1 month
node-jsjavascriptselenium-webdrivernodejsjavascript-bindings
sbmaxx/bem-polymer
Jan 2015 - Mar 2023
Contributions:4 pushes in 8 years 2 months
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