Summary
Romans Karpelcevs is an engineering manager with 12 years of experience building and scaling product-focused teams across fintech, SaaS, and mobile. Currently leading two Bondora teams that own user acquisition and the loan application funnel, he blends customer-centric product thinking with strong people leadership to create reliable, user-friendly experiences. He has repeatedly scaled engineering organisations (10→40) without attrition, modernised infrastructure, and led mobile platform transformations including React Native and Kubernetes migrations. Known for prioritising culture and career growth, he implements competency frameworks and devops automation to improve predictability and quality. Based in Tallinn, he pairs hands-on technical judgment from an early embedded/C++ and iOS background with strategic planning for product-led engineering. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic coach who surfaces technical debt and processes into measurable improvements.
12 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Bc.sc.ing, Computer Science, Bc.sc.ing, Computer Science at Rīgas Tehniskā universitāte (Riga Technical University)
Specialised secondary ed., Computer Engineering, Specialised secondary ed., Computer Engineering at Rigas Valsts Tehnikums
English, Russian, Latvian