Roman Zaynetdinov
Senior Software Engineer at Databricks
Helsinki, Finland
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Top SchoolRoman Zaynetdinov is a Senior Software Engineer with 11 years of experience building reliable, full-stack systems and contributing to prominent open-source projects. Based in Helsinki, he has shipped backend and frontend improvements for high-performance Rust projects like Servo and the Druid UI toolkit, including cleanups, DOM/style handling, and unified scrolling features. His industry experience spans startups and scale-ups—covering backend engineering at Neon, large-scale data work at Blueprint Genetics, search quality at Zalando, and his current role at Databricks—demonstrating strength across databases, developer tooling, and UI. He founded Bolik to explore privacy-focused, cross-platform apps and co-organized Finland’s Rust meetup, showing a blend of product-minded engineering and community leadership. Known for pragmatic migrations (Webpack→Vite), feature-flagging, and observability work, he favors shipping measurable developer velocity and production visibility improvements.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Information Technology, Bachelor's degree, Information Technology at Turku University of Applied Sciences
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Github Skills (30)
web-widgets10
scroll10
servo10
widgets10
user-interface10
ui-design10
scrolling10
uid10
dom-manipulation10
front-end-development10
rust10
webassembly10
gui-toolkit10
web-platform9
javascript9
Programming languages (21)
Github contributions (5)
linebender/druid
Apr 2019 - May 2020
A data-first Rust-native UI design toolkit.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:59 commits, 22 PRs, 7 pushes in 1 year
Contributions summary:Roman primarily contributed to the UI aspects of the `druid` toolkit. Their work focused on adding and unifying features related to scrolling, including both horizontal and vertical scrolling. They also implemented a test case related to text box functionality and added example code demonstrating the creation of a UI layout. These changes involved modifications to core UI components and platform-specific handling.
reactrustnative-uirust-nativeui-design
servo/servo
Dec 2016 - Jan 2017
Servo aims to empower developers with a lightweight, high-performance alternative for embedding web technologies in applications.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:8 commits, 4 PRs, 18 comments in 28 days
Contributions summary:Roman contributed to the Servo project by removing unused code, specifically fields and arguments related to the Constellation module's frame management and pipeline handling. They also removed an azure dependency from canvas traits. Furthermore, the user implemented functionality to remove associated styles when link and style elements are removed from the DOM, including the addition of corresponding tests.
browserrustjavascriptbrowser-engineservo
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