Brian Romanko
Principal Engineer at Dropbox
Redmond, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBrian 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.
12 years of coding experience
24 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Business Administration - MBA, Master of Business Administration - MBA at Texas McCombs School of BusinessBachelor's degree, Bachelor's degree at Rochester Institute of Technology
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Github Skills (18)
sequel10
javascript10
typescript10
orm10
typescript-types10
typescripts10
sequelizejs10
testing9
nodejs9
postgresql8
sql7
imagemagick6
xcode6
iphone6
google-maps6
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 (v6), 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.
feature-richormsql-servermicrosoft-sql-serversequelize
bromanko/bromanko.com
Feb 2016 - Jan 2025
bromanko.com as it says on the tin
Contributions:12 PRs, 110 pushes, 2 branches in 9 years
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