The Romos Life
Career

  1. FairSquare

    San Diego, CA

    Parent company of National Funding — started at National Funding; my role grew to serve all FairSquare companies.

    1. Software Engineering Manager

      Jan 2024 – Present

      • Lead engineering across the FairSquare family of companies, including National Funding & QuickBridge.

    2. Staff Software Engineer

      2019 – Jan 2024

      • Built and maintained customer-facing brand websites for National Funding and QuickBridge.
      • Created our Digital Funding Platform that allows customers to quickly completed the steps to receive funding online.
      • Internal Sales Calculator tool that streamlined the sales process to allow exact loan quotes.

    3. Senior Software Engineer

      Feb 2016 – 2019

  2. SimpleForms

    San Diego, CA

    1. Technical Co-founder

      Feb 2016 – Nov 2018

      • Built the SimpleForms platform from the ground up.
      • Implemented third-party integrations into the platform.

  3. Mitchell International

    San Diego, CA

    1. Innovation Developer

      Sep 2014 – Jan 2016

      • Ran quick technology experiments to validate new business cases or extensions of existing products.
      • Used the MEAN stack with automated testing and one-click deployment to ship experiment code fast.
      • Applied an innovation framework to distill ideas into tangible, easy-to-execute experiments.
      • Researched customer needs, explored new markets, and validated business concepts using lean startup methodology.
      • Partnered with the data science team on client-facing views of research for fast feedback.

  4. ScrollMotion

    La Jolla, CA

    1. Engineering Lead

      Feb 2013 – Sep 2014

      • Led the complete rearchitecture of SmartStudio 3, a multiplatform web-based app development platform, built from the ground up on Backbone, Marionette, and Handlebars.
      • Planned sprints and shipped on time a regression-tested product that integrated with another core product via an established API.
      • Pushed the envelope of what a browser-based WYSIWYG could do with the latest HTML5 / CSS3.

    2. Senior Software Developer

      Feb 2011 – Feb 2013

      • Created a web-based JavaScript WYSIWYG editor that synced with a proprietary CMS and iOS client apps.
      • Senior developer on a 100,000+ line JavaScript codebase, kept organized with modules and closures.
      • Worked alongside HP to develop and test core features of the Enyo framework during alpha and beta.
      • Integrated a C/C++ plugin to use a proprietary decryption algorithm.
      • Automated converting the ebook platform into book apps with XSD-validated XML metadata for 20,000+ titles.
      • Contributed modules and advice to the webOS 3.0 prerelease community.

  5. ClosingCorp

    La Jolla, CA

    1. Software Developer

      Feb 2009 – Feb 2011

      • Integrated several LOS platforms with the ClosingCorp SmartGFE product using XML.
      • Ensured data integrity of proprietary information used by loan originators and on compliance-guaranteed PDFs.
      • Scoped and built web applications and services with C#, ASP.NET MVC, jQuery, and optimized T-SQL.
      • Determined the right architecture layers for code in a 3-tier codebase.
      • Implemented WCF services to offload memory- and compute-heavy processes to other systems.
Education

  1. Rochester Institute of Technology

    2002 – 2007

    College Activities Board (Director), Phi Kappa Psi