Roman Yankovsky
Senior Software Engineer at SourceOddity
St Petersburg, St Petersburg City, Russia
Summary
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SeniorRoman Yankovsky is a senior software engineer with 13 years of experience, currently working on cloud storage services at Yandex and running his own developer tools company, SourceOddity. He enjoys tackling technically challenging problems and brings deep backend expertise, particularly in Python text processing—his contributions to the well-known TextBlob library improved core Word class functionality, lemmatization, POS tagging, and documentation. Based in St. Petersburg, he blends enterprise-scale engineering with entrepreneurial product instincts, shipping practical tooling for other developers. Colleagues would describe him as pragmatic and detail-oriented, with a track record of maintaining backwards compatibility while evolving libraries and services.
13 years of coding experience
Russian, English
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (16)
nltk10
nlp10
wordnet10
python10
natural-language-processing10
testing9
refactoring8
documentation8
listview6
static-analysis6
nodejs6
text-files6
pascal6
delphi6
edit6
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
sloria/TextBlob
Nov 2013 - Nov 2013
Simple, Pythonic, text processing--Sentiment analysis, part-of-speech tagging, noun phrase extraction, translation, and more.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:11 commits in 13 days
Contributions summary:Roman primarily contributed to improving the `textblob` library's text processing capabilities. Their work focused on refining the `Word` class, including implementing lemma functionality, correcting indentation, and integrating part-of-speech tagging. The user also addressed backwards compatibility concerns and updated documentation. Their efforts significantly impacted the core functionality of the library, as well as its documentation.
part-of-speechextractionpythontranslationtext-processing
RomanYankovsky/DelphiSpec
Dec 2013 - Mar 2015
Contributions:45 commits, 1 PR, 2 pushes in 1 year 3 months
delphitestingautomated-testsdelphi-libraryplain
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