Alex Romano
Member Of Technical Staff at OpenAI
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAlex Romano is a product-minded engineering leader with a decade of experience building ML-driven platforms and developer tools across startups and large tech companies. He has led engineering and product teams from seed to Series B at Finch, helped bring AI coding agents to enterprise at Sourcegraph, and explored cutting-edge agent and interpretability work at South Park Commons. Comfortable wearing many hats, Alex has hands-on experience in ML systems, integrations, customer-facing roles, and early-stage founding—most recently serving as Chief Grazing Officer at his own venture in San Francisco. He combines an EECS background from UC Berkeley and Stanford machine learning study with pragmatic execution, often translating research-grade ML into production-quality product experiences. A subtle throughline in his career is a knack for building human-in-the-loop systems that balance automation with real user workflows.
10 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
BS Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences (EECS), BS Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences (EECS) at University of California, BerkeleyMachine Learning, Machine Learning at Stanford University
Github Skills (11)
vscode-extension10
ai10
intellij-plugin10
sourcegraph8
devtools3
code-review3
image-segmentation2
js1
go1
deep-learning1
kotlin1
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
Finch-API/finch-docs
Apr 2021 - Jan 2024
Contributions:166 reviews, 167 PRs, 426 pushes in 2 years 9 months
Finch-API/docs
Dec 2023 - Jan 2024
Contributions:12 reviews, 27 PRs, 85 pushes in 1 month
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