May 2009 – Apr 2017 · 7 yrs 11 mos · Palo Alto, California, United States · On-site

• Full-stack product engineer known internally as a “coding machine” – recognized for driving impact at scale through obsessive execution, cross-org problem solving, and thousands of high-leverage code commits. Architected core product features, scaled infra, refactored millions of lines of legacy code, and helped define the Principal Engineer archetype at Meta.
• Highlights
• Facebook Groups / Workplace
• Built the initial auth framework for Workplace; contributed foundational infra used company-wide
• Architected and shipped File Uploads for Groups (prototyped over a weekend after a product review with Zuck & Shrep)
• Led “Groups for Schools” product push – early growth initiative
• Designed and launched “Communities” – enabling subgroups inside groups
• Owned deprecation efforts and privacy migrations (Networks → Groups model)
• Core Web Experience (WWW/Feed)
• Rewrote core web layout, feed composer, and site navigation components
• Drove frontend performance and framework upgrades
• Shipped backend for Paper, a curated high-signal news app
• Maintained “Bookmarks” infra and unlaunched “Litestand” UI rewrite
• Code Health & Infrastructure
• Personally removed thousands of classes tied to outdated “Preparable” patterns
• Led cleanup of legacy frameworks from the earliest days of Facebook
• Created and ran internal “Code Health Summit”
• Founded the “Dead Code Society” and “Code Cleanup Crew”
• Culture & Mentorship
• Conducted 450+ interviews (including for senior ICs and directors)
• Deeply involved in university recruiting; mentored 9 interns
• Known for “Weekly Novati” internal dispatches – blunt but respected commentary on eng culture
• Other Projects
• Re-architected Messenger for Kids accounts system for COPPA compliance
• Launched photo overlays for profile customization
• Overhauled internal tools (Tasks, Meetings, Chrome, Internal Feed, Dashboards)

Oct 2007 – May 2009 · 1 yr 7 mos · Toronto, Ontario, Canada

• Developed PHP and JavaScript architecture from scratch
• Growth hacking strategies to increase membership dramatically
• Setup and maintain infrastructure (...before AWS): source control, hosting service, logs, bug tracking, and integration
• Merger with CoopRankings

May 2007 – May 2008 · 1 yr · Mountain View, California, United States

• Focused on C++ development for FlashPro application, responsible for programming Actel FPGAs with customer provided chip designs files
• Generalist role doing everything from UI development, to firmware, to hands-on hardware testing with pre-launch FGPAs and oscilloscopes
• Added support for new file formats in FlashPro, translating them to proprietary byte code, and exhaustively testing on physical devices
• Was sent to Situational Leadership course for team leads and managers

May 2006 – Aug 2006 · 3 mos · Markham, Ontario, Canada

• Worked on Just-in-time Compile for IBM Java Virtual Machine
• Involved adding features, testing, and tooling for PowerPC
• Recognized for ability to learn quickly and produce quality work

Jul 2005 – Aug 2005 · 1 mo

• Research with Pascal Van Lieshout
• Electromagnetic Articulography (Speech Analysis)
• Enhanced data analysis, for example, by adding 3D visualization

Mar 2005 – Jul 2005 · 4 mos

• Research with Willy Wong
• Social Collaboration Networks (Erdos and Bacon Numbers)
• Data modeling and analysis using C and MATLAB