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Roman Shaposhnik

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Founder at Ainekko

San Francisco Bay Area

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Roman Shaposhnik is CTO at AIFoundry.org and a co-founder of Ainekko, an open-source company focused on inference and fine-tuning of open-weight models using a manycore chip architecture based on RISC-V cores. He is a co-founder and former CTO of ZEDEDA Inc. and serves as VP of Legal Affairs at the Apache Software Foundation, having previously held the role of VP of Technology at The Linux Foundation. Earlier in his career he worked at Sun Microsystems, and he has contributed code to open-source projects including the Linux kernel, ffmpeg, Project EVE, and the Apache big data ecosystem.

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Experience

  1. AIFoundry.orgCTO (T stands for Transputer!)current2024 — presentInternet
  2. AinekkoCo-Foundercurrent2023 — presentSilicon Valley, California, United States
  3. The IP Paperclip Project Ltd.COSTAss Co-foundercurrent2022 — presentCyprus
  4. The IP Paperclip Project Ltd.Co-Foundercurrent2022 — presentCyprus
  5. The IP Paperclip Project Ltd.O Tritos Naos, CTO-in-residence2022 — 2023Cyprus
  6. ZEDEDACo-Founder and Advisorcurrent2023 — presentCyprus
  7. ZEDEDACo-founder and CTO2017 — 2022Santa Clara, CA
  8. The Linux FoundationMember Board Of Directors for LF Edgecurrent2019 — presentInternet
  9. The Apache Software FoundationVP, Legal Affairscurrent2018 — presentInternet
  10. The Apache Software FoundationMember of the Apache Software Foundation Legal Committeecurrent2017 — presentInternet
  11. The Apache Software FoundationASF member, PMC member, mentor and committercurrent2010 — presentInternet
  12. The Apache Software FoundationMember Board Of Directors2018 — 2020Internet
  13. The Apache Software FoundationVP, Apache Incubator2014 — 2015
  14. Ampool, Inc.Technical Advisor2015 — 2020San Francisco Bay Area
  15. The Linux FoundationVP Technology for ODPi2016 — 2017San Francisco Bay Area
  16. Pivotal Software, Inc.Director of Open Source2014 — 2017Palo Alto, CA
  17. Pivotal Software, Inc.Sr. Manager - Hadoop Engineering and Open Source strategy2013 — 2014San Francisco Bay Area
  18. ClouderaSoftware Engineer2010 — 2013San Francisco Bay Area
  19. Yahoo!Senior Manager, Cloud Business Unit2010
  20. HuaweiSenior Staff Engineer2009 — 2010
  21. Sun MicrosystemsSun Developer Cloud Architect2008 — 2009
  22. Sun MicrosystemsProduct Architect,Software Engineering Manager2006 — 2008
  23. Sun MicrosystemsManager – Sun Studio QA/QE Organization2004 — 2008
  24. Sun MicrosystemsSun Studio Linux Architect, Engineering Manager2004 — 2006
  25. Sun MicrosystemsSenior Launch Engineer – St. Petersburg R&D Center / Sun Development Center2003 — 2004
  26. Sun MicrosystemsSoftware Engineer, Project Lead2001 — 2003
  27. Elbrus MCSTSoftware Engineer1998 — 2001
  28. OrimiSoftware Engineer1994 — 1998

Skills & more

Distributed Systems99Compilers14High Performance Computing8Software Engineering73Cloud Computing62Scalability20Shell Scripting18Agile Methodologies20Multithreading7Technical Leadership8File Systems5Algorithms11
+12 moreWeb ApplicationsBig DataIntegrationX86Linux KernelDevelopment ToolsX64LuaOpen SourceHadoopLinuxJava

Languages 'Murican! · Russian · sendmail.cf

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Who is Roman Shaposhnik?
Roman Shaposhnik is CTO at AIFoundry.org and a co-founder of Ainekko, an open-source company focused on inference and fine-tuning of open-weight models using a manycore chip architecture based on RISC-V cores. He is a co-founder and former CTO of ZEDEDA Inc. and serves as VP of Legal Affairs at the Apache Software Foundation, having previously held the role of VP of Technology at The Linux Foundation. Earlier in his career he worked at Sun Microsystems, and he has contributed code to open-source projects including the Linux kernel, ffmpeg, Project EVE, and the Apache big data ecosystem.
Where does Roman Shaposhnik work?
Roman Shaposhnik is Founder of Ainekko.
What companies did Roman Shaposhnik found?
Roman Shaposhnik founded Ainekko.
Where did Roman Shaposhnik go to school?
Roman Shaposhnik studied at Saint Petersburg State University (MS, Mathematics, Computer Science).

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