Roman Sotnikov
Founder at nebenan.de
Novi Sad, Vojvodina, Serbia
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Top SchoolRoman Sotnikov is a founder and seasoned backend engineer with about 13–15 years of experience building high-throughput payment and e-commerce systems using Ruby on Rails and Elixir. He has driven full product lifecycles—from founding a 600-merchant, 4.9-star Shopify app to migrating 30M+ Postgres records into Elasticsearch and cutting transaction search latency from seconds to sub-millisecond. Comfortable in both startup and enterprise contexts, he blends functional-programming advocacy (Elixir) with deep banking and payment processing expertise. Roman also brings practical systems analysis and management skills (IDEF0, UML, Scrum/Kanban) and a track record of integrating 100+ global payment providers. Based in Novi Sad, he combines entrepreneurial instincts with hands-on engineering and a taste for UI design and system optimization that yields measurable business impact.
13 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (M.S.) Applied computer science, Master of Science (M.S.) Applied computer science at Novosibirsk State University of Economics and Management (NSUEM)
English, russian (native), German
Stackoverflow
2,454reputation
163kreached
85answers
4questions
ruby-on-rails
top-5%
Github Skills (111)
hotel-booking9
visual-studio-extension9
packer9
epic9
ruby-on-rails9
directions9
typeface9
polaris9
elixir9
spree8
docker-compose8
static-analysis8
code-analysis8
package-control8
linter8
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
retgoat/streetphoto.ru.com
Dec 2012 - Jul 2013
Contributions:76 commits in 7 months
FoxComm/elixir-amazon-mws-client
Jan 2017 - May 2017
Contributions:41 commits, 4 PRs, 30 pushes in 3 months
api-clientapiamazonelixirmws-api
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