Roman Sokolov
Senior Customer Innovation Manager
Essen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
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Top SchoolRoman Sokolov is a Senior Customer Innovation Manager with 15 years of cross-industry experience spanning Big4 consulting, corporate transformation and startups, currently driving innovation at thyssenkrupp Materials Services. He combines expertise in sustainability, circular economy and venture management with hands-on technology fluency, enabling him to translate C-suite strategy into operational change and deliverable products. Roman has led innovation hubs and complex transformation programs at Gazprom Neft and Raiffeisen Bank, building high-performing cross-functional teams and navigating regulatory and industrial contexts. A pragmatic technologist, he contributes to notable open-source Rust projects—improving streaming JSON parsing and low-level Unix bindings—demonstrating attention to robustness and real-world edge cases. His background in communications, entrepreneurship and formal project management gives him an uncommon ability to align stakeholders, foster adoption and get things done. Based in Essen, he pairs analytical rigor with a creator’s mindset and a pilot’s discipline, recently earning a sailplane license.
15 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Project management (PMI), Structured problem solving, Effective presentation and many more, Project management (PMI), Structured problem solving, Effective presentation and many more at EY Academy of BusinessErasmus University RotterdamSailplane (Glider) Pilot License, Sailplane (Glider) Pilot License at European Aviation Safety AgencyMaster's degree, Master's degree at Russian International Tourism AcademyAdvertising and PR, Advertising and PR at Moscow Business School
English, Finnish, Russian
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Github Skills (21)
json10
libc10
testing10
data-serialization10
serialization10
deserialization10
error-handling10
rust10
serde10
unix9
io9
binding9
bind9
actor6
byte6
Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
nix-rust/nix
Oct 2014 - Feb 2015
Rust friendly bindings to *nix APIs
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:7 commits, 1 PR, 1 comment in 4 months
Contributions summary:Roman implemented core functionality for the `nix-rust/nix` repository, focusing on low-level system calls. They added support for vectorized I/O operations, specifically `writev` and `readv`, including comprehensive testing within the `unistd.rs` test suite. Additionally, the user updated the code to align with new Rust compiler versions and addressed type mismatches, ensuring compatibility and maintaining the library's functionality.
unixcraterustlibcrust-bindings
serde-rs/json
Dec 2015 - Feb 2016
Strongly typed JSON library for Rust
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:6 commits, 2 PRs, 8 comments in 1 month
Contributions summary:Roman primarily contributed to the `serde-rs/json` repository by adding functionality for parsing JSON streams. They introduced a `JSONStream` struct and associated methods to deserialize multiple JSON values from a stream of bytes. Furthermore, they refined error handling and addressed edge cases, such as trailing whitespaces and truncated input, improving the robustness of the JSON parsing library. These changes enhanced the library's ability to handle real-world data streams from modern web APIs.
serdejsonpathrustjson-librarystrongly-typed
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