Roman Safronov
Head Of Engineering, Tax Technology And Transformation, US
Atlanta, Georgia, United States
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Top SchoolRoman Safronov is a hands-on engineering leader with over 20 years of experience who currently heads Tax Technology and Transformation engineering for EY US, overseeing 12 product teams that automate the full cycle of tax compliance, reporting, and analytics. He blends strategic technical vision with day-to-day development work as a player-coach, driving agile delivery of scalable, resilient systems across cloud and enterprise landscapes. His background spans fintech and data-heavy platforms at Citigroup, UBS, S&P Global and ThoughtWorks, where he has led global teams, built microservice ecosystems, and implemented CI/CD and automated testing at scale. Roman also contributes to prominent open-source projects such as the Kubernetes ingress-nginx controller, adding practical enhancements for external authentication header propagation. Based in Atlanta, he pairs deep systems architecture skills (Java/Kotlin/Groovy/JS) with product-oriented leadership that consistently reduces time-to-market and operational friction. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic technologist who turns complex regulatory and integration challenges into robust, production-ready solutions.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Engineer's degree, Automated Information Systems Security, Engineer's degree, Automated Information Systems Security at Tula State University
English, Russian
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (18)
ingress-controller10
kubernetes10
go10
kubernetes-pods10
nginx10
api-design9
restful-api9
api-rest9
rest-api9
testing8
powermock6
mockito6
yarnpkg6
kotlin6
typescript6
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
kubernetes/ingress-nginx
Feb 2017 - Mar 2017
Ingress NGINX Controller for Kubernetes
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:10 commits, 1 PR, 10 comments in 1 month
Contributions summary:Roman primarily focused on enhancing the ingress-nginx controller's functionality, specifically related to external authentication. Their contributions include implementing support for passing HTTP response headers from an external authentication service. This involved modifications to the core annotation parsing logic, template functions, and test files to correctly handle and propagate these headers. Furthermore, the user merged updates from the upstream repository.
ingress-nginxkubernetesingress-controllernginx
buildit/digitalrig-docker
Jan 2017 - Mar 2017
Container-based version of digitalrig
Contributions:79 commits, 1 PR, 51 pushes in 2 months
dockerkubernetesjenkinscdec2
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