Alex Romero
Director, Global Trade Compliance at BPE Global
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAlex Romero is a seasoned global trade compliance leader with nearly three decades of experience designing and scaling export controls and compliance programs across technology and manufacturing sectors. Currently Director, Global Trade Compliance at BPE Global after leading global export compliance at AWS, he combines enterprise policy, operational rigor, and tech-forward automation to make complex regulatory programs auditable and scalable. He has led compliance teams at Amazon, Qualcomm, and Kyocera, translating nuanced export controls into repeatable processes that support rapid product and cloud service rollouts. Alex pairs program leadership with hands-on technical contributions—he has contributed back-end fixes and test automation to the widely used botocore library, demonstrating comfort working with developer tools and cloud APIs. Based in Seattle, he brings a rare mix of legal/regulatory domain expertise, product-minded automation experience, and clear operational leadership. Colleagues describe him as pragmatic, detail-oriented, and adept at turning ambiguous regulatory requirements into operationally sound solutions.
8 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
English, English Language and Literature/Letters, English, English Language and Literature/Letters at San Diego State University
English, Spanish
Github Skills (7)
aws-s310
error-handling10
botocore10
pytest10
python10
api-design9
documentation7
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
boto/botocore
Jun 2024 - Feb 2025
The low-level, core functionality of boto3 and the AWS CLI.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Test Automation Engineer
Back-end Developer & Test Automation EngineerContributions:42 reviews, 34 PRs, 15 pushes in 8 months
Contributions summary:Alex contributed significantly to the `botocore` library, implementing and refining functionalities related to S3, specifically around handling invalid timestamps in Expires headers and the management of 200 error responses. They introduced new test cases to validate these changes, covering scenarios such as error responses during S3 copy operations and streaming operations. Additionally, the user added a query compatibility header, enhancing the library's ability to interact with AWS services, and removed outdated documentation.
aws-cliboto3awslow-levelcli
alexgromero/aws-cli
Jun 2024 - Feb 2025
Universal Command Line Interface for Amazon Web Services
Contributions:12 pushes, 2 branches in 8 months
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