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Roman Lobanov
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Melbourne, Australia
Durango Labs
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Roman Lobanov

Senior Software Engineer / Product-Minded Builder
Melbourne, Australia
complexia701@gmail.com · +61 435 420 608 · Github · LinkedIn

About

Senior software engineer and product builder with deep experience across AI tooling, developer tools, and startup product development.

I build end-to-end systems: backend services, frontend products, integrations, data pipelines, internal platforms, AI-assisted workflows, and developer-facing tools. I am strongest in environments where the problem is ambiguous, the product is still taking shape, and the engineering work needs to move fast without becoming a mess.

My background spans early-stage engineering teams, AI coding tools, and founder-led product development. I have worked across frontend, backend, infrastructure, product architecture, and technical leadership.

Currently building and experimenting across multiple products, including:

  • Durango — AI chat interface and agentic IDE
  • Qside — simple digital profiles
  • Ossmeta — AI-powered BJJ journal
  • Metaloot — one-stop shop for all of your gaming needs

Core Stack

Languages & Frameworks

  • TypeScript
  • Next.js
  • React
  • Rust
  • Go
  • Python
  • FastAPI

Databases & Backend Platforms

  • Postgres
  • Convex
  • Supabase
  • MongoDB
  • PlanetScale
  • SQL
  • REST APIs
  • Background workers
  • Integration services
  • Data ingestion pipelines

AI Coding Stack

Domains

  • AI-native applications
  • Agentic IDEs
  • Developer tools
  • Data integrations
  • SaaS products
  • Gaming platforms
  • Digital identity / profile products
  • B2B and B2C product engineering

Experience

Senior Software Engineer

Hola Health — Melbourne, Australia
March 2025 – Present

Building product and platform infrastructure inside a fast-moving telehealth company.

At Hola Health, I led engineering work on Hola Shop, a pharmacy-commerce product that lets patients buy medication directly through the Hola App after a GP consultation and prescription flow. The product connects telehealth, prescriptions, pharmacy fulfilment, and patient purchasing into one end-to-end experience.

What I Worked On

  • Led development of Hola Shop, a pharmacy-commerce layer inside the Hola telehealth ecosystem.
  • Built backend business logic for pharmacy products, ordering flows, and fulfilment-related workflows.
  • Built patient-facing and internal frontend surfaces using React, Next.js, and TypeScript.
  • Worked across product, backend, frontend, integrations, and operational edge cases.
  • Helped turn a fragmented healthcare workflow into a single app-level user journey: consult, prescribe, purchase, deliver.
  • Operated with high ownership across product definition, system design, implementation, and delivery.

Stack

  • Python
  • FastAPI
  • React
  • Next.js
  • TypeScript
  • Healthcare product architecture
  • Pharmacy-commerce workflows
  • Telehealth systems

Integrations Lead

StrongRoom AI — Melbourne, Australia
April 2023 – March 2025

Led integration engineering for StrongRoom AI’s international expansion, especially across the UK and US markets.

The work focused on connecting StrongPro to local pharmacy dispensing systems, pulling historical patient and prescription data, and making that data usable for analytics, insights, and product workflows.

What I Worked On

  • Led a team of 4 engineers delivering international pharmacy-system integrations.
  • Owned technical delivery for integrations across multiple markets and third-party dispensing systems.
  • Designed ingestion flows for historical patient and prescription data.
  • Worked on systems where data correctness, reliability, and operational debugging mattered heavily.
  • Turned messy external-system requirements into shippable engineering plans.
  • Worked closely across implementation, integration strategy, debugging, delivery planning, and engineering leadership.
  • Helped scale StrongPro from an Australia-focused product toward international markets.

Stack & Areas

  • Pharmacy dispensing-system integrations
  • Historical patient-data ingestion
  • Prescription-data ingestion
  • Backend integration services
  • Data pipelines
  • Healthcare interoperability
  • Analytics-enabling infrastructure
  • Technical leadership

Integrations Engineer

StrongRoom AI — Melbourne, Australia
November 2021 – April 2023

Joined StrongRoom AI as one of the earliest engineers and helped build the company’s core integration capability.

Worked across integrations with My Health Record, pharmacy dispensing systems, frontend product surfaces, middleware, and backend services.

What I Worked On

  • Joined as approximately the fifth person on the engineering team.
  • Built foundational integration infrastructure for pharmacy and healthcare products.
  • Worked on My Health Record integrations and pharmacy dispensing software integrations.
  • Built frontend functionality in React.
  • Developed middleware and business-logic layers in Rust.
  • Worked with Laravel for database-connected backend systems.
  • Operated across the full stack: UI, middleware, backend services, integrations, and data persistence.
  • Shipped in an early-stage environment where engineering scope changed quickly and ownership mattered more than rigid role boundaries.

Stack

  • React
  • Rust
  • Laravel
  • SQL
  • Healthcare integrations
  • Pharmacy integrations
  • My Health Record
  • Backend middleware
  • Database-connected application services

Products & Projects

Durango

durango.sh

AI chat interface and agentic IDE.

Durango is an AI-native coding interface built around the idea that developers should be able to chat, code, run projects, and orchestrate agentic workflows from one place.

The product explores the future of software development where AI agents, local dev environments, terminals, project context, and code execution are part of the same interface rather than scattered across disconnected tools.

Qside

qside.io

Simple digital profiles.

Qside is a lightweight product for creating simple, clean digital profiles. The goal is to make identity, links, presence, and personal/business profiles easy to publish and share.

Ossmeta

ossmeta.com

AI-powered BJJ journal.

Ossmeta is an AI-powered Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu journal for tracking training, techniques, rounds, weaknesses, progress, and learning patterns over time.

The product is built around the idea that combat-sport learning can be made more deliberate with structured notes, AI-assisted reflection, and training-history context.

Metaloot

metaloot.app

One-stop shop for all of your gaming needs.

Metaloot is a gaming-focused platform concept for discovery, publishing, tools, and services around games and gaming communities.

The broader vision is to create infrastructure and product surfaces for game discovery, lightweight publishing, player identity, and gaming-related services.

Metaloot was a winner at ETHGlobal Bangkok (https://ethglobal.com/showcase/metaloot-x5810)

Education

Bachelor of Information Technology

RMIT University — Melbourne, Australia
2020