Summary
Aleksandr Romanov is a seasoned engineering leader and co-founder with eight years of experience scaling high-performing, international teams and transforming engineering organizations for startups and fast-growing SaaS companies. He has repeatedly shortened delivery cycles and improved quality—implementing Agile at scale, CI/CD, and TDD to move feature cadence from months to bi-weekly while achieving >80% test coverage. Aleksandr excels at navigating regulated and security-sensitive environments, driving compliance programs (SOC, PCI, HIPAA, ISO) and building operational frameworks like EOS, incident and vulnerability management. He pairs hands-on product and iOS design experience with strategic roles (VP of Engineering, Director, advisor) to align engineering, product, sales and support around outcomes. Currently co-founding One Shot LoRA—an ML-driven creative tooling startup in Dubai—he also advises and consults for companies sustaining post-transformation growth. A practical mentor and process architect, he’s known for the “Lead Backup” approach that builds leadership resilience behind the scenes.
8 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Executive MBA, Executive MBA at Hult International Business School
Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) Management in Engineering Systems, Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) Management in Engineering Systems at Southern Federal University (former Rostov State University)
Associate of Science (A.S.) Computer Programming, Associate of Science (A.S.) Computer Programming at Kabardino Balkarian State University
English, Arabic, Russian