Roman Shaposhnik
Roman Shaposhnik is the Co-founder and Chief Technology Officer of Ainekko, a company committed to making AI hardware and software fully open, modular, and community-driven. At Ainekko, Roman is leading the effort to democratize silicon by open-sourcing production-grade hardware and tooling, empowering developers to co-design AI systems from the chip up. His mission is to extend the values of open source into the core of AI hardware, enabling a new era of experimentation, accessibility, and edge innovation.
Roman is a longtime open-source advocate and contributor to the Apache Software Foundation, where he played key roles in projects like Hadoop, Bigtop, and Incubator. He also used to work on Plan9, Linux kernel, gcc and ffmpeg. He has held senior technical positions at Sun Microsystems, Pivotal, and Cloudera, and was the founding CTO of ZEDEDA. A frequent speaker and community builder, Roman’s work at the Linux Foundation and LF Edge reflects his commitment to collaborative, bottom-up innovation. He earned his Master’s in Mathematics and Computer Science from Saint Petersburg State University, graduating summa cum laude.