Software Engineering Leader

Kyle Romero.

19+ years building software and leading the teams that ship it.

Currently

Team Lead, Tenna

Based in

Jersey City, NJ

Specialty

Full-Stack Development + Architecture + Leadership

Contact Info

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About Me

Currently Team Lead at Tenna, a construction B2B SaaS company acquired by John Deere, where I own the integrations domain. Hands-on across team leadership, cloud architecture, full-stack development, DevOps, and project management.

Experience

Oct 2025 — Current

Team Lead, Tenna

Mar 2025 — Oct 2025

Contractor, Dexian (Client: Deloitte Consulting)

Mar 2023 — May 2024

Director of Software Development, Raymour & Flanigan

Apr 2021 — Mar 2023

Director of Operations Technology, MEARS Group

Mar 2020 — Apr 2021

Senior Manager of Operations Technology, MEARS Group

Oct 2017 — Mar 2020

Manager of Operations Technology, MEARS Group

Apr 2016 — Oct 2017

Team Lead, Worldwide Machinery

Dec 2013 — Feb 2016

Technical Lead, HP

Dec 2011 — Dec 2013

Senior Developer, HP

Jul 2007 — Dec 2011

Software Developer, X-Fab, Texas

May 2007 — Jul 2007

Software Development Intern, X-Fab, Texas

May 2005 — Dec 2009

Bachelor of Science in Computer Engineering, Texas Tech University

Skills

Tenna (Construction Technology Industry)
AWS (EKS, Aurora, ElastiCache, S3, Lambda, SQS, DynamoDB, DMS, Kinesis), K8s, Helm, Docker, FluxCD (GitOps), Istio, GitHub Actions, Hapi, Express, Sequelize, React, Redux (Toolkit), SingleSpa (Micro-UI), RabbitMQ, Postgres, Redis, Elasticsearch, Grafana, Prometheus, Tempo, OpenTelemetry, Papertrail, GitHub, JIRA, Confluence, Claude.
Dexian (Staffing, IT Services, and Workforce Solutions)
Client: Deloitte Consulting

Azure Cloud, Containerized Node Express API (Azure App Services), .NET Microservices (Azure Functions), Angular F.E., SAP / CC&B B.E., Tibco + Boomi Data Integrations, Redis Cache, CosmosDB, MS-SQL DB (Azure), Azure DevOps, Confluence.
Raymour & Flanigan (Retail Industry)
React, .NET (C#, UWP, ASP.NET Core), SQL Server, Oracle DB, Azure, AWS, Windows Server, Git (Azure DevOps), Boomi, Snowflake.
MEARS Group (Energy Industry)
.NET (C#, ASP.NET Core, Blazor), SQL Server, Sqlite3, Azure / Windows Server, JavaScript (Angular / Node / Electron), Git (Azure DevOps), PowerBI, PowerAutomate, Java (Spring Boot), Python, Raspberry Pi.
Worldwide Machinery (Construction Industry)
.NET (C#, ASP.NET MVC API, WinForms), React, Redux, Typescript (ES6), Node.js, Express, SASS, SQL Server, DigitalOcean, Docker, JIRA, TeamCity, Bitbucket, Ubuntu, Windows Server.
HP Inc. (Consumer Electronics Industry)
.NET (VB.NET, C#, ASP.NET), jQueryUI, jQuery, SQL Server, Tableau, Hadoop, Hive, HP Vertica, TFS, Subversion, Visual Studio, Windows Server.
X-Fab, Texas (Semiconductor Manufacturing Industry)
.NET (C#, ASP.NET, WinForms), C++, Perl, SQL Server, Subversion, Windows Server, RedHat.

Other

Side Projects

(SvelteKit) kgromero.com
This site: my personal portfolio and resume site.
(C#) Reddit Listener
Tracks top posts and authors across subreddits in near real time, within Reddit's API rate limits.
(Go) Luhn Verifier Microservice
HTTP microservice that validates card numbers with the Luhn algorithm.
(Flutter) UUID / Password Utility
Cross-platform app for bulk UUIDs and configurable passwords with a strength meter.
(C++) JSON to Model Generator
Generates model classes from JSON or JSON Schema for 12 languages.

Interests

, Spin Class, PC Gaming, Reading (SFF), Nature / National Parks, Broadway, Theme Parks, Travel

Favorite Tech Resources

Hacker News (YCombinator) Lobste.rs Dev.to /r/programming The Pragmatic Engineer LeadDev