Roman Bezlepkin

I am a long-time IT professional based in Minneapolis, MN (and formerly Seattle, WA) and have over fifteen years of experience from web development, to desktop applications, service oriented architecture, microservices, cloud, and information security.

I like to keep a low profile and seek no fame. I don’t have a twitter or any social media presence, but I do keep a few things around: contact@romanbezlepkin.com; LinkedIn; StackOverflow.

These days you can find me tinkering with Internet of Things devices, electronics, DevOps, and motorcycles.

A short autobiographical sequence of events in my life:

2022 — contributing skills to decentralizing and giving back control to users over their data
2021 — leading and executing penetration tests of services, applications, and devices of Fortune 50 clients
2020 — design and architecture of cloud-native applications from scratch, mentoring
2019 — lots of work in migrating on-prem services to Azure
2018 — becoming a lead engineer for a new team of developers, developing enterprise standards and libraries
2017 — research and development of devices and software to speed up retail operations
2016 — bespoke solutions to collect metrics across 20,000 retail endpoints
2015 — reverse engineering, research and development of coffee brewing automation
2014 — creating face to face drive thru camera ordering systems, CEO demos
2013 — working with ancient patient medical software to make it work in modern times
2012 — lots and lots of electronics magic smoke released (first arduinos, raspberry pi)
2011 — created a content management system (ASP.NET) for a web dev shop
2010 — web development in PHP, DIY forum software
2009 — sneaking personal laptop into high school classes with unfettered internet access as “taking notes”
2003–2008 — first computers, Windows XP on a bi-annual reinstallation cycle, hackintosh, BASIC Stamp, simple digital logic, Fedora/Ubuntu/Sabayon/Gentoo Linux trials.

Articles ~ RSS

2021-01-21: Running a headless ProtonMail Bridge with a SMTP Relay for homelab use
2020-10-06: Reverse engineering Ambient Weather WS-1001-WIFI EasyWeatherIP TCP protocol
2020-03-20: Homelab Reverse Proxy - Part 4 - Virtual Machine Setup
2020-01-04: Sena 10C Repair & Waterproofing
2020-01-03: Homelab Reverse Proxy - Part 3 - OpenVPN Server Setup
2019-12-31: Homelab Reverse Proxy - Part 2 - Certificate Management
2019-12-31: Homelab Reverse Proxy - Part 1