Daniel Schafer Email & Phone Number

Menlo Park, Ca, Us

Director of Server UI Frameworks group. Supported 30+ engineers and four managers across New York and Menlo Park.Engineering lead of Cross-Meta Design System, the first company-wide design system spanning Facebook, Messenger, Instagram and WhatsApp across iOS and Android.Led team building and deploying Bloks — a server-side rendering framework — as the cross-app mobile platform for all Meta mobile apps.Engineering POC for the months-long secret project rebranding the company to “Meta.” Ran week-long war room after announcement to update splash screen branding across the entire company mobile portfolio.Tech Lead Director of Product Elements team — a small, senior team designing and deploying iOS/Android product infrastructure to improve performance.

Co-creator of GraphQL.Co-author of open source GraphQL release, spec and graphql-js reference implementation in 2015. Designed and built GraphQL Mutations/Subscriptions. Tech led creation of all core GraphQL schemas at Facebook. Designed and built the original GraphQL API powering iOS/Android news feed.Tech lead of Android product layer in 2016–18. Led development of core data fetching and rendering abstractions by core Facebook App orgs, split among London/New York/Seattle/Menlo Park offices. Created and deployed DataFetch abstraction, improving performance across all major iOS/Android interactions.Authored RFC for PrivacyPolicy framework in 2013, leading to subsequent deployment by privacy team.Proposed and tech led EntStory project, the data model powering News Feed, Timeline, and all feeds since 2012.Created multiple new interview types, used in all product & leadership interviews. Member of Candidate Review quorum, which makes final eng. hiring decisions. Conducted 700+ interviews, including 50+ training interviews.Presented at GraphQL Conf 2019, /dev/color in Motion 2018, GraphQL Summit 2017, GitHub Universe 2016.Promoted to IC8 in February 2017.

San Francisco, Ca, Us

Bachelor Of Science, Mathematics And Computer Science

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