Roman Elizarov有超过16年的职业软件开发经验。曾就职于Devexperts，负责为领先的经纪公司设计和开发高性能交易软件。

他也是Java和JVM专家，擅长并发、实时数据处理、算法和现代架构的性能优化。Roman目前在JetBrains参与Kotlin语言的开发。

Roman于2000年毕业于圣彼得堡信息技术、机械与光学大学（ITMO）。现在也在该校开设了一门并发和分布式系统编程的课程。他在大学期间开始参与ACM国际大学生程序设计竞赛（ICPC）。从1997年到现在，他一直是ICPC欧洲东部和北部地区预赛的主裁判之一。

Roman Elizarov is a professional software developer with more than 16 years of experience. He had started his career at Devexperts, where he designed and developed high-performance trading software for leading brokerage firms and market data delivery services that routinely handle millions of events per second. He is an expert in Java and JVM, particularly in concurrency, real-time data processing, algorithms and performance optimizations for modern architectures. Roman currently works on Kotlin language at JetBrains. In 2000 Roman had graduated from St. Petersburg ITMO. He now teaches a course on concurrent and distributed programming in ITMO. During his undergraduate study he participated at ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest (ICPC). Since 1997 and until now Roman serves as a Chief Judge of Northeastern European Regional Programming Contest (NEERC) of ICPC.