Alexander Romanov
Director Of Engineering at Import.io
Phuket, Thailand
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Top SchoolAlexander Romanov is a business-oriented Director of Engineering and serial founder with over a decade of hands-on experience building high-performance web systems, startups, and data-intensive backends. He has founded three startups with two exits, led engineering and product teams of up to 15 people, and currently heads engineering at Import.io where he rebuilt crawling infrastructure to cut costs and double performance. Deeply fluent in JavaScript/TypeScript, Node.js, and a wide polyglot backend stack (Kotlin, Python, Java, C#, PHP), he combines systems-level expertise in web crawling and anti-bot reverse engineering with production ML and cloud-native operations on AWS and Kubernetes. His past ventures include launching successful OTAs and metasearch products that scaled to millions of crawled pages and thousands of bookings per month, highlighting a rare blend of product, growth, and technical execution. Based in Phuket, he pairs competitive programming roots and pragmatic engineering to optimize both cost and performance in large-scale data collection systems.
11 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
Master IT in Economics, Master IT in Economics at Novosibirsk State Technical University (NSTU)
Russian, English
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Github Skills (164)
effort10
connected10
async10
interception10
asynchronous10
kotlin10
windows9
docker9
clean-css9
ajax9
proxy-server9
android9
request-response9
jquery8
proxy-protocol8
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
sannysoft/newproxy
May 2020 - Mar 2022
JS Proxy library with support for request/response interception, optional SSL MITM, external proxy
Contributions:1 review, 55 commits, 1 PR in 1 year 10 months
proxy-serversslproxyjavascriptproxy-protocol
sannysoft/php-amadeus
Mar 2015 - Apr 2015
Contributions:93 pushes, 1 branch in 18 days
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