Roman Joost
Senior Software Engineer at Microsoft
Brisbane City, Queensland, Australia
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Top SchoolRoman Joost is a Senior Software Engineer with 22 years of experience building backend systems and developer tooling, currently at Microsoft in Brisbane. He brings deep expertise in Python and legacy web frameworks (Zope, Grok, Plone) alongside modern DevOps and CI/CD practices shaped during senior roles at Red Hat and Clipchamp. At Red Hat he led an agile team on Beaker lab automation, improved developer experience across partner labs, and built Fedora QA tooling—demonstrating a blend of hands-on coding and system-level reliability work. Roman excels at integrating microservices, automating deployment pipelines, and mentoring engineers to raise team delivery velocity. He favors pragmatic, user-centered design choices informed by systematic debugging and customer collaboration, making him effective at turning complex testing and release challenges into production-ready solutions.
22 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Computer Science with Honours (Diplom Informatiker/FH), Computer Science, Bachelor of Computer Science with Honours (Diplom Informatiker/FH), Computer Science at Hochschule Anhalt
English, German, Russian
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Github Skills (141)
python10
curses10
gimp10
haskell10
javascript10
linux10
monorepo10
user-agent10
typescript10
build-system10
gnome10
tui10
email-parsing10
stub10
terminal-ui9
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
purebred-mua/purebred-mailcap
Nov 2021 - Oct 2022
RFC1524 - mailcap parser
Contributions:3 reviews, 15 PRs, 22 pushes in 11 months
mercuryjmapemailparser
romanofski/programslice
Jul 2012 - Sep 2015
Static analysis tool to slice python programs
Contributions:262 commits, 42 pushes, 12 branches in 3 years 2 months
pythonstatic-analysis
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