Summary
Maksim Romanenko is a pragmatic engineering leader with 11 years of experience building teams, shaping engineering culture, and delivering scalable cloud-first systems from Amsterdam. As Head of Engineering at SnapSwap he drives AWS adoption, operational excellence, and cross-functional alignment while personally recruiting and mentoring engineers. Prior roles include technical leadership and architecture across fintech and media—designing chatbots, data-migration optimizations, mobile apps and embedded JavaScript frameworks—so he blends deep hands-on JS/Node skills with systems thinking. He has a strong track record of turning chaotic projects into structured teams and repeatable processes, and often steps into vendor, legal and business discussions to bridge technical and non-technical stakeholders. Trained as an applied mathematician, he brings analytical rigor to performance and reliability problems while keeping people development front and center.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree Applied Mathematics, Master's degree Applied Mathematics at Saint Petersburg State University
Academic Gymnasium SPbGU
Russian, English, Dutch