I'm Jonathan Wilde, an engineering leader that's led responses for the riskiest and highest-profile privacy problems in the world, at fast-moving companies small and large.I develop pragmatic, engineering-friendly solutions for "impossible" problems:- Building the first version of Clubhouse's privacy-aware data layer in a couple days, and getting multiple teams using it in production within the first week.- Migrating one of the industry's largest contact databases to use client-side hashing in under 4 weeks with no downtime, to acclaim from international privacy experts.- Founding and leading Meta’s Privacy Control Infra team to rapidly find and wrangle 1000+ products across 200+ teams to comply with US regulatory obligations.I write and speak about privacy engineering. Selected talks, chapters, and podcasts:- "Deletion: From Startup to Scaleup" — Privacy: Applied, Proactive, Innovative, Volume II, February 2023- "Building Engineering-Friendly Privacy Programs" — Privado Data Privacy Stars 2023, January 2023- "A Lawyer, an Engineer, and a Marketer Walk Into A Bar..." — IAPP Privacy. Security. Risk. in Austin, TX, October 2022In the past, I've been a Tech Lead Manager at Clubhouse supporting privacy, security, and trust & safety engineering. And prior to that, I spent 6 years at Meta, where I founded and led their Privacy Control Infra team, led deployment of a UN Human Rights Council recommendation for the 2017 Rohingya refugee crisis in Myanmar, and worked on products to support people through difficult life moments.
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Senior Staff Software EngineerInstagramDenver, Co, Us
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Staff Software EngineerInstagram Aug 2023 - PresentInstagram & Threads Privacy Foundation Team
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Owner & Principal ConsultantReal World Privacy Apr 2023 - Aug 2023Providing full-service consulting and advisory services for early-stage startups building sensitive products, particularly in the AI and social media sectors. -
Tech Lead Manager (Privacy, Security, T&S Lead)Clubhouse Aug 2022 - Apr 2023San Francisco, Us• Onboarded and mentored 3 tech leads for the Privacy, Security, and Trust & Safety areas.• Led high-stakes international responses to deploy new privacy and safety protections for our Italian and Persian communities. -
Privacy Engineering LeadClubhouse Sep 2021 - Aug 2022San Francisco, Us• Led privacy engineering, from standards, to incident management, to fact-finding for regulators, to advising privacy sensitive areas across the company.• Deployed client-side hashing for one of the industry’s largest contact storage systems, in under 4 weeks, to praise from global privacy experts.• Developed Dynamite, a privacy-aware data access layer for DynamoDB. Within 1 week, 3 teams were using it in production. Nearly every new product uses it today.• Launched highly-requested account management and recovery surfaces, along with product infra for user control storage, user consent prompts, and server-defined mobile UI.
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Staff Software EngineerMeta Feb 2021 - Sep 2021Menlo Park, Ca, Us• Founded and led Privacy Control Infra, a 7-person team in Central Privacy (inc. SWE, TPM, EM) which scaled infra & tooling for 1000+ user-facing settings and controls across Meta’s family of apps.• Developed strategy and oversaw execution of work for 20-year obligations as a recordkeeping owner of Section XIV.E of the 2019 FTC Consent Order.• Proposed foundational privacy engineering tools and abstractions and tooling that hundreds of teams across Meta use daily.• Proposed and led Privacy Adoption Manager, which leveraged machine learning models to help teams save time by adopting privacy abstractions ahead of company-wide Privacy Review process.• Directed turnaround of three of the worst-performing areas of the company-wide Privacy Review process, and wrote the company playbook to enable more teams to do the same. -
Software EngineerMeta Aug 2015 - Feb 2021Menlo Park, Ca, Us• Proposed and led global deployment of emergency escalations tools for the 2017 Rohingya refugee crisis in Myanmar, a UN Human Rights Council recommendation.• Increased topline metrics for Facebook Lite by proposing and implementing product improvements to trust & safety flows.• Developed ground-truth performance measurement for suicide prevention machine learning models.• Implemented user-friendly appeals flows and operational improvements to support vulnerable groups caught up in enforcement of Facebook’s 'Authentic Names' policy.
Jonathan Wilde Education Details
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Tufts UniversityComputer Science
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