Director Of Engineering, Infrastructure
Head of Instagram infrastructure team, responsible for Instagram's reliability, scalability, efficiency and quality of backend infrastructure and web platform. Built the org from 2 engineers to 70+ engineers. Proud of building a strong engineering culture within the team, and cultivated broad cross-functional collaborations within Facebook. Proven track record of successful delivery of multiple year, large scale projects. My org and myself also works closely with product in delivering major products at scale, together with our product teams, e.g., Instagram Direct, Stories, Live, IGTV.Instagram runs the world's largest python fleet in production and we pride ourselves in the way we drive scale, efficiency and technical innovation with Python. Instagram is also the world's top 3 user of Apache Cassandra, open source key-value storage system. We have been leading some of the 10x changes to Cassandra performance.Some of the blog posts and media publications on my team's work during this time:https://instagram-engineering.com/open-sourcing-a-10x-reduction-in-apache-cassandra-tail-latency-d64f86b43589https://instagram-engineering.com/copy-on-write-friendly-python-garbage-collection-ad6ed5233ddfhttps://instagram-engineering.com/let-your-code-type-hint-itself-introducing-open-source-monkeytype-a855c7284881https://instagram-engineering.com/instagration-pt-2-scaling-our-infrastructure-to-multiple-data-centers-5745cbad7834