Summary
Alan Romano is a Senior Software Engineer and PhD-trained researcher with 11 years of experience building tooling and analyses for web and WebAssembly ecosystems. His work blends systems and ML techniques—creating high-impact tools like WASPur and MinerRay and a Binaryen patch that boosted WebAssembly performance up to 15.5x—demonstrating deep expertise in program analysis, debugging, and compiler behavior. Proficient across TypeScript, JavaScript, C#, Python, C++, and Java, he has shipped production-grade web platforms and large-scale data workflows while leading cross-institution collaborations and weekly research syncs. Based in New York, he pairs academic rigor with practical engineering, having scaled crawlers to harvest over one million sites and reduced obfuscation detection by 99% in experimental tools.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science, 3.9, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science, 3.9 at University of Southern California
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science, 3.96, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science, 3.96 at New Jersey Institute of Technology
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science and Engineering, 3.95, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science and Engineering, 3.95 at University at Buffalo
Spanish, English