Anthony Romano
Managing Director, Cybersecurity Technology & Controls at Fuse
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
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Top SchoolAnthony Romano is a Managing Director specializing in cybersecurity technology and controls with over a decade of hands-on engineering and leadership experience. He blends product-minded software craftsmanship—evidenced by three live iOS apps and a history of shipping dozens of projects—with enterprise security and controls leadership at JPMorgan Chase. A seasoned backend engineer, he contributes to prominent open-source projects in the Go ecosystem (etcd, bbolt, grpc-go), where his work has tackled concurrency, data integrity, and distributed storage robustness. He has a track record of building secure mobile platforms and reverse-engineering complex closed protocols to create unified consumer experiences. Comfortable toggling between code, architecture, and executive strategy, he holds a BS in Computer Engineering (Summa Cum Laude) and an MBA from Villanova. Outside of work he stays sharp by actively coding and contributing to critical infrastructure libraries, bringing both practical engineering depth and security-first thinking to large organizations.
10 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
MBA, Business Administration, MBA, Business Administration at Villanova University
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Github Skills (57)
context-manager10
server-communication10
transaction10
consensus10
apidoc10
server-client10
mutex10
testing10
microservices-application10
process-management10
distributed-systems10
context-api10
zookeeper10
etcd10
data-structure10
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
etcd-io/zetcd
Oct 2016 - Nov 2017
Serve the Apache Zookeeper API but back it with an etcd cluster
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:1 release, 114 commits, 82 PRs in 1 year
Contributions summary:Anthony primarily contributed to the development of `zetcd`, a project designed to serve the Apache Zookeeper API using an etcd cluster. Their work focused on implementing and fixing core backend functionalities, specifically addressing issues related to sequential creation and path handling. They also made code changes to incorporate vendoring and pprof for profiling. Furthermore, they contributed to the improvements related to multi-operation support within the project.
etcdapizookeeperetcd-clusterapache-zookeeper
etcd-io/etcd
Dec 2015 - Sep 2017
Distributed reliable key-value store for the most critical data of a distributed system
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:4 releases, 1965 commits, 1430 PRs in 1 year 9 months
Contributions summary:Anthony primarily worked on enhancing and maintaining etcd's gRPC API, specifically focusing on its V3 features. Their contributions included the implementation of a printer interface, and support for various output formats (json, protobuf) in the etcdctl project. The user's efforts extended to improving the management and handling of transaction requests, suggesting expertise in etcd's internal data structures and operational aspects. They also introduced and managed the support for different isolation level, enhancing the system's robustness.
etcdcriticalconsensusdistributed-systemreliable
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