Roman Bulatov

Roman Bulatov is a network engineer and the founder of ProxyVerity, where he leads the systems that discover, verify and rank public proxy servers. Over the past 15 years he has built proxy and anti-bot infrastructure that processes millions of connection checks per day, and he has spent thousands of hours doing the unglamorous work most guides skip: measuring latency honestly, detecting transparent and honeypot proxies, and separating servers that merely respond from servers that actually work.

His background spans large-scale web scraping, network security and data engineering. He has designed distributed checking agents, tuned HTTP/2 and TLS fingerprinting pipelines, and worked hands-on with every major proxy protocol — HTTP, HTTPS, SOCKS4 and SOCKS5 — across residential, datacenter and mobile networks. That practical experience is what shapes ProxyVerity's verification methodology: every claim on the site is something he has validated in production, not repeated from a spec sheet.

Roman writes ProxyHub to give developers, researchers and privacy-conscious users straight answers about proxies — how they work, when to use each type, and how to avoid the security traps that come with free public servers. When he is not benchmarking proxies, he is reverse-engineering the ways websites try to block them.