# Mikhail Romanenko

> Software Engineer

Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/mikhail

Backend engineer. Used to do frontend in the past. Designed and implemented game and VR systems a while back. Georgia Tech graduate 2022.

## Work Experience
### Software Engineer @ Mercenary Technology
Jan 2023 – Jan 2025 | Fremont, California, United States
- Shipped ‘Robot Raiders’, a multiplayer VR title for Meta Quest 2/3 with 10,000+ users.
- Worked with Meta engineers to design new platform features for Meta Horizon Worlds.
- Parsed user input via Meta Horizon Worlds library, utilized that for character controls. 
- Implemented navigation, game AI systems, internal state management logic in TypeScript.
- Persisted game, user states into a managed document JSON NoSQL database.
- Optimized state checking algorithms (33% less ops), improving performance from 40fps to 60fps.
- Created reference project examples and documentation for new devs in Meta Horizon Worlds.

### Undergraduate Algorithms Researcher @ Georgia Tech VIP Program
Jan 2020 – Jan 2021 | Atlanta, Georgia, United States
- Designed a robot simulation (python, numpy, scipy, matplotlib) with environment interactions.
- Led a 5-member algorithms team; mentored new members and allocated research tasks.
- Implemented and compared search algorithms (multi-agent A*, RRT) in dynamic settings.

### Chess Instructor @ Self Employed
Jan 2020 – Jan 2020 | Niantic, Connecticut, United States
- Trained multiple students to play strategic and tactical chess
- Improved the chess skills of the students by 250+ rating points (lichess.org).


## Education
### Bachelor's degree in Computer Science
Georgia Institute of Technology
Jan 2019 – Jan 2022


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/mromanenko
- Website: https://sites.google.com/view/mikhail-romanenko

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Last updated: 2026-03-20