Aug 2025 – Present · 8 mos

Aug 2023 – Jan 2026 · 2 yrs 5 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

• Engineering leader for Instagram Home: Reels, Feed, Explore, Search, and Profile plus the ML teams that support Instagram's ranking and recommendations. We build the products that help people connect with their friends and be entertained.

Jan 2022 – Aug 2023 · 1 yr 7 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

• Supporting a rockstar team of engineers that build a lot of the product in the Instagram app - feed, stories, explore, messaging, search, profile, and all the relevance/ml work that supports the app

Feb 2011 – Jan 2022 · 10 yrs 11 mos · Menlo Park

• Director of Engineering for Communities (2019-current): Supporting a team of ~500+ engineers working on the Facebook app focused on building community, which includes Groups, Events, Profile, Dating and more.
• Director of Engineering for the Groups team (2019): Building the Groups product in the Facebook app to help foster community.
• Director of Engineering (2017-2019): Supporting the engineering team building new products related to Identity, self expression, new relationships, and meeting new people.
• Engineer & Engineering Manager (2011-2017):
• Facebook Profile
• Facebook Dating
• People Discovery
• Public Profile
• Profile Videos
• Profile Picture Frames
• Timeline
• Year in Review
• Life Events
• Covercard
• Organ Donation
• Weddings and Celebrations
• Friendship page
• People Tab
• Press:
• https://developers.facebook.com/blog/post/2013/03/13/making-apps-a-bigger-part-of-timeline/
• https://m.facebook.com/careers/life/through-the-lens-of-engineering-director-jeff-h

Aug 2009 – Feb 2011 · 1 yr 6 mos

• Built and led the team that transitioned the desktop PowerPoint app to the cloud version of Office 365. Architected and built the web editor for PowerPoint presentations.

Jul 2005 – Jul 2010 · 5 yrs

• Developed the OfficeArt platform that enabled drawing and shapes in the Office Apps with a focus on the PowerPoint app.

May 2004 – Aug 2004 · 3 mos

• Interned with the Windows team building out a tool to create a diff between two installation files (.MSI) called PatchWiz, looks like it still works today:
• https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/msi/patchwiz-dll

May 2006 – Aug 2007 · 1 yr 3 mos

• Co-authored a book about PowerPoint tips and tricks with my friend and coworker Wayne Kao as a fun side project:
• http://www.amazon.com/Advanced-Microsoft-Office-PowerPoint-2007/dp/0789737248/

May 2003 – Sep 2003 · 4 mos

• Interned at a startup in the Bay Area focused on motion capture systems. I built out a demo of the product called PhaseSpace Invaders which used a head mounted display, and a set of sensors on an arm that let you blast aliens out of the air.
• Think Oculus Quest but 15 years ahead of its time. Successfully demo'd the project at SIGGRAPH '03.