Svevo Romano

Senior Digital Consultant | Full Stack Developer | UI/UX Designer

Profile

I have worked in digital for over 20 years, with experience spanning web development and UI/UX design, project management and strategic consulting, helping companies and brands develop their digital presence and products.

Born and raised in Italy to an Italian father and a Swedish mother, I started creating websites using the Photoshop slice tool, HTML tables, inline styles and some JavaScript in the mid-nineties, while studying Law at Uni. In the early 2000s, I fell in love with SEO, when keywords were everything, and learned WordPress and PHP. I also fully embraced the Macromedia revolution using Flash and ActionScript for websites and cartoon animation (which was great fun!) and Director to create CD-ROMs.

I then moved to London (UK) in 2004 to explore new opportunities. In London I worked as an Apple employee for about 3 years, starting in sales and later transitioning to software training. Eventually I started Mavo Studio as a boutique communications agency, after a brief period spent at Langland, at the time the largest independent healthcare marketing agency in the UK, as a New Media Developer and Designer. Throughout these years, I contributed to the development of PR and marketing campaigns for small companies as well as large corporate and institutional clients such as Roche, Novartis, GSK, Astellas, Pfizer, Puffs, Walkers, Activision, Blackberry, Department of Health, Department for Transport, Global Campaign for Education, Investec, CBRE, Danone, Miele and Wall's.

After more than ten years of a vibrant and quite immersive work experience in the UK, I moved back to Italy, continuing to work with Italian and international clients under the Mavo Studio brand.

I am an advocate of a clean, non-redundant, performant and mobile-first design and development approach. While I have always leveraged pure JavaScript (in fact I still write Vanilla JS whenever I can) I've also learned the React ecosystem for the development of more 'app-like' products.

Today I work primarily as a senior digital consultant, supporting companies and teams across digital strategy, web development, UI/UX and project management. I also continue to work directly on design and code, an aspect of my work I have never wanted to give up. I particularly enjoy working with European clients, especially in the UK, as well as clients in the United States.

Skills

Programming Languages

Libraries & Web Technologies

Software & OSs

Portfolio

My portfolio selection is available on the website of my studio.

Wider interests and lifelong learning

I spend my free time with my family and, if it happens, I still find time to play some blues guitar, alone or with my old friends, with whom I've shared many gigs in the past. I love listening to music and I like TV series, although I always try to spend more time reading.

Whenever I am not working on a live project, I study. Among other resources, I believe Frontend Masters is an excellent e-learning platform for modern web technologies. There, I'm deepening my knowledge of the Node.js ecosystem and I'm learning Python for AI applications.

I got curious about AI and data analysis, so I took a couple of online courses from Stanford University. I use ChatGPT Plus in my everyday life and I'm reading more about developing and training models with frameworks.

I'm also interested in the real estate market and I run a small venture in the holiday homes sector. I'm also looking into how to leverage AI in the tourism sector. In 2026 I finally found the time to launch something I'd been meaning to build for years: Ciao Napoli, an independent English-language travel guide to Naples. I'm developing the project from the ground up, combining curated editorial content with useful digital tools designed to help international visitors discover and navigate the city.