Hi, I'm Roman Galeev

Senior Software Engineer at Microsoft

Building high-scale distributed systems, backend services, and data-intensive cloud platforms. Passionate about performance optimization, AI, and technical leadership.

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About Me

I'm a Senior Software Engineer at Microsoft with deep experience building large-scale distributed systems, high-performance backend services, and data-intensive cloud platforms. Based in Vancouver, Canada, I specialize in high-reliability backend engineering, cloud-scale data processing, and performance optimization.

My career is defined by solving complex technical problems, modernizing legacy systems, and elevating engineering excellence across diverse teams. I'm passionate about AI, data analysis, leadership, and mentoring the next generation of engineers.

Core Skills

C# / .NET
Azure Cloud
Distributed Systems
Performance Optimization
Big Data (Cosmos)
AI
CI/CD Pipelines
System Architecture

Professional Experience

Microsoft Clarity

Apr 2024 – Present

Senior Software Engineer — Backend

  • • Profiled and optimized compute-intensive services, reducing CPU usage by 10% across hundreds of pods
  • • Replaced expensive deep-clone mechanism with code-generated solution achieving 100× performance improvement
  • • Integrated Microsoft Interflow IP reputation service for bot detection across 1.5B+ daily IPs

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Jan 2024 – Apr 2024

Senior Software Engineer — Backend

  • • Led full migration of legacy Huddle Server into modern MeetNow architecture
  • • Designed upgrade paths from .NET Framework to .NET Core and ASP.NET Core
  • • Remediated high-severity security issues and improved service-core libraries

IC3 — Async Media Storage

May 2021 – Jan 2024

Software Engineer — Backend

  • • Central role in Microsoft-wide effort to unify Teams media storage with OneDrive platform
  • • Designed and implemented dual-write and dual-read flows for Azure Storage and OneDrive interoperability
  • • Optimized document creation, ingestion, and migration pipelines for improved latency and throughput
  • • Implemented advanced content-access controls for enterprise customers
  • • Migrated legacy certificate flows to Microsoft’s modern platform

Key Achievements & Projects

Microsoft Clarity Analytics

Enhanced playback performance, telemetry, and infrastructure for a web analytics platform used by millions of websites.

C#.NETAzureBig Data

Bot Detection at Scale

Integrated real-time IP reputation services and ASN mismatch detection across 1.5B+ daily IPs for accurate bot classification.

Machine LearningReal-timeSecurity

Performance Optimization

Achieved 100× performance improvements through code-generated solutions replacing expensive operations.

ProfilingOptimizationC#

Media Storage Unification

Designed dual-write/dual-read flows for Teams media storage migration to next-gen OneDrive platform.

Azure StorageMigrationArchitecture

FastAudioPlayer

Personal project — Audio player application with optimized playback capabilities.

Side ProjectAudioApp Development

Web Summit Volunteer

Represented Microsoft at Web Summit to showcase Copilot agents and educate attendees on AI-driven productivity tools.

AICommunityCopilot

Get In Touch

📍 Vancouver, Canada

I'm always open to new opportunities, collaborations, and conversations about distributed systems, performance optimization, and AI. Feel free to reach out!

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