Summary
Saveliy Romanov is a pragmatic software engineering leader and founder with 8 years of experience building and scaling AI-powered production systems across e-commerce, retail, and speech analytics. As a former CTO and co-founder, he grew and led 10+ engineer teams (ex-Huawei, Yandex, Ozon) and shipped a speech recognition pipeline that cut WER by 40% in noisy, far-field conditions. His work at Ozon contributed to features that supported a $15B+ GMV business unit and delivered multi-million-dollar annual GMV uplifts, and his products have driven up to 10% revenue gains for major retailers. A deep systems thinker who taught operating systems, concurrency, and Go at a highly selective CS program, he blends low-level curiosity with product thinking to turn research-grade ML into reliable, real-time services used at scale.
8 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree Data Science, Master's degree Data Science at Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (State University) (MIPT)
Machine Learning, Machine Learning at Yandex School of Data Analysis