Summary
Benjamin Romano is a seasoned software engineer with 11 years of experience specializing in mobile performance, observability, and developer tooling. Currently a Member of Technical Staff at OpenAI after a decade at Snap where he led mobile performance, client observability, and performance testing infrastructure that blocked 100+ regressions per year and collects over 4M production traces daily. He has a track record of shipping large-scale platform improvements—app size reductions, Gradle/Bazel build expertise, and adoption of App Bundles/Dynamic Delivery—that materially improved user experience and engineering velocity. Based in Los Angeles, he combines hands-on systems engineering with program-level leadership, sponsoring company-wide health initiatives across ~30 feature areas. He also brings prior experience building simulation, clustering, and supply-chain systems from internships, reflecting a broad technical curiosity beyond mobile performance.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Master’s Degree Computer Science, Master’s Degree Computer Science at The University of Alabama