Brian Romanko
Redmond, Washington, United States
Summary
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SeniorBrian Romanko is a Principal Engineer with 12 years of experience building product and privacy-focused engineering organizations, currently at Dropbox after leading privacy infrastructure and data understanding efforts at Meta. He combines hands-on backend expertise—demonstrated by contributions to the popular Sequelize ORM improving validation and error handling—with executive leadership as a former VP/CTO who scaled teams, processes, and delivery across startups and large companies. Brian has founded and sold startups, led engineering through acquisitions, and repeatedly translated ambiguous product needs into robust, production-grade systems spanning TypeScript, Python, Go, Rust, and cloud-native infrastructure. At Meta he operationalized privacy practices—commercializing anonymization research and standardizing purpose-limitation constructs—to reduce months-long implementations to days. Based in Redmond, he pairs product sensibility and design thinking with measurable engineering KPIs informed by Accelerate research. Colleagues know him for tackling unfamiliar domains quickly and for turning research-quality ideas into practical, deployable solutions.
13 years of coding experience
Github Skills (11)
typescript10
sequel10
javascript10
typescripts10
orm10
sequelizejs10
typescript-types10
testing9
nodejs9
postgresql8
sql7
Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
sequelize/sequelize
Jul 2014 - Jul 2014
Feature-rich ORM for modern Node.js and TypeScript, it supports PostgreSQL (with JSON and JSONB support), MySQL, MariaDB, SQLite, MS SQL Server, Snowflake, Oracle DB, DB2 and DB2 for IBM i.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:9 commits in 6 days
Contributions summary:Brian focused on improving the error handling and validation mechanisms within the Sequelize ORM. Their contributions included fixing error inheritance, adding methods to retrieve validation errors by path, and updating the instance validator to utilize a new `ValidationErrorItem` class. Additionally, the user made updates to unit tests to align with the implemented validation changes.
db2jsonbmariadbmssqlservermysql
scherzo-systems/scherzo
Apr 2026 - Jul 2026
A ticket driven workflow orchestrator for AI agents
Contributions:3 reviews, 36 PRs, 303 pushes in 2 months
ai-agent
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