Roman Shaposhnik
CTO (T Stands For Transformers ) at The Linux Foundation
San Francisco Bay Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRoman Shaposhnik is a veteran open-source technologist and serial founder with 23 years building distributed systems, cloud and edge platforms from Sun Microsystems to co-founding ZEDEDA and Ainekko. Currently CTO of AIFoundry and leading a 100% open-source company focused on democratizing ML collaboration, he blends deep systems engineering with product leadership. He has a strong track record in big data and edge projects—contributing to Apache Bigtop, HAWQ and the LF Edge EVE project—often working on low-level performance, packaging and runtime stability. An influential Apache Foundation leader (VP Legal, board roles, multiple PMCs and committers), he pairs governance and legal savvy with hands-on code. Based in the Bay Area with an MS in Mathematics & Computer Science, he quietly bridges the worlds of corporate R&D, nonprofit community building (Paperclip/COSTAss) and pragmatic open-source stewardship.
23 years of coding experience
30 years of employment as a software developer
MS Mathematics Computer Science, MS Mathematics Computer Science at Saint Petersburg State University
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Github Skills (39)
utilities10
postgresql10
scripting10
packaging10
databases10
hadoop10
c1110
hawq10
c1710
debian-packaging10
script10
rpm10
utility10
build-automation10
package10
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
apache/bigtop
Aug 2011 - Sep 2017
Bigtop is an Apache Foundation project for Infrastructure Engineers and Data Scientists looking for comprehensive packaging, testing, and configuration of the leading open source big data components.
Role in this project:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:808 commits, 2 PRs, 26 comments in 6 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Roman's contributions primarily focused on refactoring and improving the Bigtop framework. They addressed issues related to dependency management, specifically for Hadoop and its related projects. The commits involved restructuring build configurations and packaging scripts to ensure correct dependency resolution for building packages with a focus on the correct use of HADOOP_HOME and other environment variables. Furthermore the user's work included adding run-level directives and other improvements to the startup scripts.
javaapachebig-databigtop
lf-edge/eve
May 2019 - Oct 2022
EVE is Edge Virtualization Engine
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:5 releases, 1066 reviews, 836 commits in 3 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Roman primarily focused on modifying code related to system utilities for the platform. The changes include adjustments to low-level system utilities and supporting tools with efforts to increase stability. These changes involved integrating new code and adjusting existing ones to support the project. The user shows an understanding of core system functions for a virtualized Edge environment.
linux-foundationvmseveoperating-systemsecurity
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