Roman Studenikin is a Staff Software Engineer with 12+ years building high-throughput, production-grade distributed systems and ML infrastructure across Meta, Booking.com and Yandex. He designs pragmatic architectures that cut code and latency dramatically—once reducing backend code by 70% and improving tail latency up to 10x, which translated into a sustained €400k/week revenue gain. Roman has led teams from click-fraud prevention to stream-processing platforms, shipping Kubernetes-native Spark and Kafka-based frameworks that empower 100+ data scientists to iterate models in a day. At Meta he’s driving secure business communication and next-gen realtime media processing, blending deep systems design, consensus protocols and operational leadership. He’s equally comfortable in low-level algorithm design and in aligning cross-functional teams around a shared vision to break dependencies and accelerate delivery.
Contributions:2 PRs, 2 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 3 months
avrosinkapache-kafkakafka-connectorconnector
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Roman Studenikin - Staff Software Engineer at Meta