Michael Romero
Engineering Director at Epic Games
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMichael Romero is an Engineering Director at Epic Games in Seattle with a strong pedigree in graphics and engine development and 11 years of professional experience. He previously led engine and graphics teams at 343 Industries and spent nearly a decade at Intel advancing GPU and graphics software, bringing hardware-aware performance expertise to AAA engine architecture. Michael blends hands-on engineering with leadership—ranging from low-level graphics pipeline optimization to front-end contributions on the popular halogenica/beautifulhugo theme, where he added multi-level navigation, PhotoSwipe galleries and client-side syntax highlighting. He holds BS and MS degrees in Computer Engineering from RIT and is known for translating deep technical knowledge into product-focused, high-performance systems.
11 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Rochester Institute of Technology
Github Skills (9)
theme-development10
css10
hugo10
javascript10
javascripts10
bootstrap9
bootstra9
html9
bootstrap29
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
halogenica/beautifulhugo
Mar 2016 - Oct 2022
Theme for the Hugo static website generator
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:254 commits, 185 PRs, 252 pushes in 6 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Michael's commits primarily focused on enhancing the Beautiful Hugo theme, a static website generator theme. They added features like support for multi-level navigation menus within the navbar and big title images to improve visual presentation. Additionally, the user made improvements to CSS and JavaScript files, alongside the integration of several new social media icons and client-side syntax highlighting, to optimize the theme's functionality. Furthermore, they fixed an improper container to display the content correctly, along with the inclusion of PhotoSwipe support for gallery functionality.
hugoforestrystatic-website-generatorwebsite-generatorhugo-theme
halogenica/halogenica.github.io
Dec 2017 - Oct 2019
Contributions:18 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 9 months
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