ROMAN EMREIS

Distinguished Software Engineer
Rockville, US.

About

Distinguished Software Engineer with 15+ years of experience. Passionate about engineering high-throughput platforms (cloud, hybrid, AI/ML) that handle millions of operations seamlessly. Proven track record of leading global teams to innovate faster, mentor engineers into top performers, and partner with clients to solve their toughest technical challenges. Whether it's optimizing distributed systems, designing future-proof architectures, or turning complex requirements into elegant solutions I thrive where others hit walls.

Work

OPIS, A Dow Jones Company
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Chief Technical Officer

Highlights

Led the development of a cloud-based B2B platform for the fuel retail industry. Following its launch, the product attracted over 200 new corporate clients and enabled the migration of approximately 80 existing ones to a modern tech stack - driving more than 150% revenue growth and expanding market reach across the U.S. East and West Coasts as well as Canada.

Implemented ML-based solutions for market price forecasting and corporate pricing strategy optimization. This empowered data-driven decision-making using historical and market data, increasing pricing strategy accuracy by 70% and profit margins by 120%.

Designed and implemented a hybrid Data Warehouse / Data Lake architecture by integrating Postgres (operational layer) with Snowflake (analytical layer). The solution centralized event and business data storage, accelerated analytical queries by 5×, and laid the foundation for scalable analytics and ML.

Fostered a strong engineering culture by promoting trust, transparent communication, and regular knowledge sharing. This led to full team retention (0 attrition over 2 years) and significantly improved team stability and motivation.

EPAM Systems
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Chief Software Engineer I

Highlights

Collaborated with cross-functional teams to lead the development of a high-performance AI/ML system using .NET and Azure, reducing latency by 30% and boosting throughput by 50% for real-time business decisions.

Partnered with teams and external partners to build a .NET, Python, and AWS system integrating ML models with Geoscience and Energy software, cutting client costs by 200% and driving customer growth.

Spearheaded performance optimization, cutting processing times by 80%, by refactoring microservices to Rust.

Reduced infrastructure costs in AWS by 25% by implementing serverless technologies, replacing a costly legacy system, and improving efficiency.

Pioneered the migration from monolith to microservices architecture, elevating release velocity by 40% and reducing system downtime by 30% through improved scalability and fault tolerance.

Enhanced customer engagement and operational efficiency by 40% by accelerating timelines and achieving profitability 3 months ahead of schedule through effective resolution of strategic challenges.

Mentored engineers enhancing their technical skills resulting in a 35% increase in performance metrics and a reduction in bug rates by 15%.

Gazprom
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Principal Software Architect

Highlights

Developed and executed a three-year architecture roadmap aligned with the company's business growth objectives, driving 40% faster cloud adoption, upgrading the technology stack, and implementing automation and containerization using Docker and Kubernetes.

CGS
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Lead Software Engineer

Highlights

Implemented structured execution processes in chaotic environments, facilitating smooth project execution at scale and reducing project delivery times by 20%.

Pioneered integration of ML models with the construction costs calculation process, increasing calculation accuracy by 120% and reducing time to value by 50%.

Led the design and development of a large-scale Enterprise Platform based on a .NET stack, significantly enhancing the company's total factor productivity by 140%.

Increased company annual revenue by 20% by leading the team that established a large-scale GIS software product built on top of ASP.NET and JavaScript.

Elevated system output quality by 200% by designing and implementing an advanced Quality Control system built on C# and SQL, ensuring higher accuracy and reliability.

Enhanced overall team performance and engagement, leading to a 30% increase in project delivery efficiency and a 25% improvement in employee satisfaction scores through professional coaching and mentoring.

Freelancer
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Software Engineer

Highlights

Improved security and reliability by 40% for a new, country-wide online payments platform by developing backend services.

Implemented an e-commerce web application that increased revenue for a restaurant chain by 300%.

Education

Saratov State Technical University

Master

Computer Science

Skills

Public/Hybrid Cloud Platforms

Azure, AWS, GCP.

Distributed Systems
Microservices & Serverless Architectures
Artificial Intelligence (AI/Gen AI)
Machine Learning (ML)
Containerization

Docker, Kubernetes.

CI/CD
Infrastructure as Code (IaC)
C#
C/C++
Rust
Go
JavaScript/TypeScript
React
Node.js
Python

Projects

Cost Estimate Documentation Automation Cloud Platform

Summary

Inventor of the Patent on Enterprise Platform, built on top of microservice architecture and includes cross-platform desktop, web, and mobile client applications.

Volga: Web Framework

Summary

Creator and maintainer of open-source web framework on Rust for fast and easy development of robust high-throughput microservices.

Neva: MCP SDK

Summary

Creator and maintainer of open-source SDK for developing fast MCP servers and clients with the full power of Rust.

Prediction of missing S-wave logs and Improvement of seismic resolution on synthetic seismic data

Summary

Designed an innovative cloud-based system to integrate ML models into Geoscience & Energy applications, achieving a 200% reduction in measurement and calculation costs.