Prior to Xage, Roman held vice president of product and engineering roles at ABB, Tropos Networks, and Mimosa Networks, solving networking, security, and data analytics challenges for industrial and commercial enterprises, enabling millions of IoT devices in production today. Earlier in his career, Roman developed the first generation of content delivery networks (CDN) and secure proxy servers at Blue Coat Systems (Symantec). Roman holds a bachelor’s degreee in applied mathematics with an emphasis in computer science from the University of California, Berkeley, and an MBA from Columbia University.