Roman Elizarov

Roman is an expert in concurrent and distributed programming, teaching the corresponding course at St. Petersburg ITMO. Roman has been developing high-load systems for exchanges and brokers at Devexperts for 15 years, primarily using Java.

In the recent past, Roman worked for 7 years at JetBrains, where he led a team working on the Kotlin language, focusing on the design of the language and libraries, and is the author of coroutines in Kotlin — a mechanism for asynchronous programming.

Currently, Roman leads the development experience department of the E-com and ridetech business group of Yandex, where he is responsible for experience and happiness of developers.