Welcome to the AI Plumbers Devroom

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.

Tanya Dadasheva is the Co-founder and Chief Executive Officer of Ainekko, a company committed to making AI hardware and software fully open, modular, and community-driven. Tanya leads with a vision for building developer-first infrastructure that is governed by collaboration, not control. Her belief that “community over code” should guide the future of AI reflects her broader mission at Ainekko which is to create an open-source platform where innovation can scale from the silicon level up. Before founding Ainekko, Tanya was a venture investor at Almaz Capital, where she backed early-stage startups across the OSS ecosystem and helped bring emerging market technologies into the global spotlight. She has also served as an open-source policy advocate, advising organizations on the governance and sustainability of shared software infrastructure. Tanya brings a rare mix of strategic clarity, business insight, and deep conviction in open collaboration to everything she builds. She earned her Master’s in Mathematics and Economics from Moscow State University, graduating summa cum laude.