Roman Sotnikov
Founder at nebenan.de
Novi Sad, Vojvodina, Serbia
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Top SchoolRoman Sotnikov is a founder and seasoned backend engineer with about 13–15 years of experience building high-throughput payment and e-commerce systems using Ruby on Rails and Elixir. He has driven full product lifecycles—from founding a 600-merchant, 4.9-star Shopify app to migrating 30M+ Postgres records into Elasticsearch and cutting transaction search latency from seconds to sub-millisecond. Comfortable in both startup and enterprise contexts, he blends functional-programming advocacy (Elixir) with deep banking and payment processing expertise. Roman also brings practical systems analysis and management skills (IDEF0, UML, Scrum/Kanban) and a track record of integrating 100+ global payment providers. Based in Novi Sad, he combines entrepreneurial instincts with hands-on engineering and a taste for UI design and system optimization that yields measurable business impact.
13 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (M.S.) Applied computer science, Master of Science (M.S.) Applied computer science at Novosibirsk State University of Economics and Management (NSUEM)
English, russian (native), German
Stackoverflow
2,454reputation
163kreached
85answers
4questions
ruby-on-rails
top-5%
Github Skills (87)
epic10
visual-studio-extension10
shopify-app9
packer9
code-analysis9
ruby-on-rails9
typeface9
elixir9
google-fonts9
user-experience9
developer-tools8
clojure8
ansible8
static-analysis8
terraform8
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
FoxComm/elixir-amazon-mws-client
Jan 2017 - May 2017
Contributions:41 commits, 4 PRs, 30 pushes in 3 months
api-clientapiamazonelixirmws-api
retgoat/streetphoto.ru.com
Dec 2012 - Jul 2013
Contributions:76 commits in 7 months
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