Stanislavs Romanovs

Fractional Head of AI & Engineering at LUMAS, working a fractional 3-day-a-week schedule.

LUMAS is a 20-year-old Berlin photo art gallery with 19 international locations across Europe and the US.

Key initiatives:

- Designed and built a unified intelligence layer connecting LUMAS's catalog, analytics, and operational data behind a single MCP server. Enables non-technical employees to run complex multi-source workflows (one-prompt landing page generation, cross-source root-cause analysis, restock recommendations, catalog gap discovery) that previously required cross-functional coordination across analytics, engineering, merch, and marketing.

- Rolled out enterprise AI access for every employee via Claude (Anthropic Teams) and Microsoft 365, centrally deployed through Intune. The intelligence layer is pre-installed for every user.

- Authored the company-wide AI strategy: prioritized roadmap, explicit "what we will not do" boundaries, and the framework that lets leadership make data-backed decisions instead of chasing trends.

Tech: TypeScript, Node.js, MCP, Anthropic API, Microsoft 365 / Intune, AWS, SQLite/Postgres, AWS.

Led engineering at WhiteWall, the premium photo art production brand within the CEWE Group (publicly listed German photo printing company).

Key accomplishments:

- Architected and led the rewrite of the user-facing e-commerce platform: modern Angular stack with server-side rendering, 90+ Lighthouse score, and a maintainable codebase that reduced ongoing engineering effort and supported significantly faster feature delivery.

- Conceived, proposed, and built the Shopify Extension for resellers. Originally a low-priority side initiative I championed, it grew into the company's most strategically important product within six months. Subsequently won the TIPA Award in 2026 for its market impact.

- Built and led the engineering team: hiring, interviewing, mentoring, performance reviews, and structuring delivery against business priorities.

- Senior engineering voice in cross-functional decisions, balancing technical debt, deadlines, and business outcomes across product, design, and operations.

Played key role in transferring legacy monolithic Symfony2 application to microservice based NodeJS architecture with very strict security standards. My main task was to develop and maintain loan service that is processing millions of euro monthly as well as assisting with rest of development including frontend related tasks.