Ankit Jena

Software Engineer

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India7 yrs 9 mos experience
Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

  • Expert in building secure and efficient software solutions.
  • Proven track record in leading technical teams at Meta.
  • Strong background in software security and privacy research.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Backend-heavy Fullstack Engineer with a focus on Security and User Growth in B2C applications.

Contact

LinkedIn

Skills

Core Skills

Full-stack DevelopmentTechnical LeadershipSoftware DevelopmentProject ManagementWeb Application SecuritySoftware Design

Other Skills

PHPAndroidData AnalysisA/B TestingHiringSQLCross-functional Team LeadershipTeam BuildingDjangoBack-End Web DevelopmentTeam LeadershipGo-to-Market StrategyReact.jsC++Python

About

I am passionate about building software that is highly efficient and usable yet secure at the same time. I love to break systems apart and identify vulnerabilities in design and implementation. Keywords : C++, Python, C, Java, Software Engineering, Security, Privacy, Networks, Research, IoT.

Experience

7 yrs 9 mos
Total Experience
2 yrs 7 mos
Average Tenure
6 yrs 8 mos
Current Experience

Meta

4 roles

Staff Software Engineer

Promoted

Jul 2025 – Present · 9 mos · Menlo Park, California, United States · On-site

  • Driving product strategy and technical direction in the identity management and account access space to build features that drive user growth across Meta's family of apps.

Technical Lead

Promoted

Sep 2023 – Aug 2025 · 1 yr 11 mos · Menlo Park, California, United States · On-site

  • Tech lead for a team of 14 software engineers whose mission is to drive user growth across Meta's family of apps including Facebook, Messenger and Instagram by reducing friction in identity management and account access.
  • Key responsibilities include:
  • 1. Co-owning with EM and XFN leads, the long term product strategy in account access on Facebook, Instagram and Messenger and architect quarterly roadmaps for the team in line with business priorities.
  • 2. Overall engineering owner of project timelines and goals including those spread across multiple ICs and workstreams in the team.
  • 3. Main point of contact for technical consultation for other engineers in the team and helping unblock them in their projects via code and design reviews, supporting experimentation (A/B test) design and data analytics.
  • 4. Main point of contact for XFN (PM, DS, DE, design, privacy, external teams) for technical consultation on product strategy, providing engineering support for product design and engineering estimates.
  • 5. Co-own hiring goals for the team with engineering manager and the overall health of the team including engineering excellence culture and oncall.
PHPFull-Stack DevelopmentAndroidProject ManagementData AnalysisA/B Testing+7

Senior Software Engineer

Jul 2022 – Sep 2023 · 1 yr 2 mos · Menlo Park, California, United States · On-site

  • Responsible for leading a team of 8 engineers with a mission to develop a unified account access flow for Meta's family of apps including Facebook, Messenger and Instagram.
Software DesignSoftware DevelopmentBack-End Web DevelopmentProject ManagementTeam LeadershipFull-Stack Development+1

Software Engineer

Aug 2019 – Jul 2022 · 2 yrs 11 mos · Menlo Park, California, United States · On-site

  • As part of Facebook Growth, I design and build products that aim at driving the growth of the Facebook user base through seamless yet secure authentication and account access for over 3 billion users on the platform.
Software DesignPHPReact.jsWeb Application Security

Carnegie mellon university silicon valley

3 roles

Research Assistant

Mar 2019 – May 2019 · 2 mos

  • Evaluating compliance of IoT devices and services towards California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA).

Graduate Research Assistant

Oct 2018 – Jun 2019 · 8 mos

  • Evaluation of static and binary analysis tools for mobile and IoT software in connected vehicles.

Practicum Student

Aug 2018 – Dec 2018 · 4 mos

  • Redesigning cloud-based, data-intensive IoT services to protect private user data while allowing the service provider to verify correct execution of their service in an off-cloud platform. Using Intel SGX to provide trusted execution environment for the service running on the off-cloud platform.

Barclays

Software Engineering Intern

May 2018 – Aug 2018 · 3 mos · Greater New York City Area

  • Worked on the implementation of a conversational style chatbot that improved the operational efficiency of IT teams significantly by automating highly manual workflows. Implemented speech recognition for the chatbot by using open source technologies like CMU Sphinx. Developed scripts to generate domain relevant data to train the language and acoustic models for the speech recognition.

Cylab, carnegie mellon university

Graduate Research Assistant

Mar 2018 – May 2018 · 2 mos · Greater Pittsburgh Area

  • Worked on the design and implementation of a tool in a project sponsored by ISO to efficiently construct DNS queries with user supplied query parameters and obtain amplification factors and deduce amplification inducing queries in DDOS attacks. Achieved high query throughput through batching and multithreading.

Citibank india

Technology Analyst Intern

May 2016 – Jul 2016 · 2 mos · Pune, Maharashtra, India

  • Developed a JAVA validator and build framework to automate database builds as part of a DevOps project. Also implemented an SQL parser to split dump SQL files into separate table-wise files.

Hdfc bank

Summer Intern

May 2015 – Jul 2015 · 2 mos · Mumbai

  • Developing ASP.NET Mobile web-apps as part of the bank's in-house applications.

Education

Carnegie Mellon University's Information Networking Institute

Master of Science - MS — Computer and Information Systems Security/Information Assurance

Jan 2017 – Jan 2019

Visvesvaraya National Institute of Technology

Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.) — Computer Science

Jan 2013 – Jan 2017

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