Hiral Nagda

Software Engineer

San Francisco, California, United States6 yrs 6 mos experience
Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

  • Led critical privacy feature development at Meta.
  • Achieved significant user engagement through A/B testing.
  • Designed interactive cultural documentation project.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Software Engineer with expertise in Social Media and Web Development.

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Skills

Core Skills

Software DesignA/b TestingPythonWeb Development

Other Skills

Data AnalysisHack (PHP)iOS pluginsNotification Service ExtensionObjective-CHTMLCSSJavaScriptFlask APIC++AlgorithmsJavaCMySQLDeep Learning

Experience

6 yrs 6 mos
Total Experience
2 yrs 2 mos
Average Tenure
5 yrs 11 mos
Current Experience

Meta

Software Engineer

Jun 2020Present · 5 yrs 11 mos · Menlo Park, California, United States

  • Facebook's Growth Notifications Experience
  • Developed a critical and high-complexity privacy feature to retract push notifications on Facebook Lite and Android when content is deleted. Extended it into a adaptable framework now used by multiple teams for various use cases
  • Drove multiple A/B tests for iOS tray optimization, utilizing Hack, iOS plugins, Notification Service Extension, and Objective-C. Guided the team through comprehensive data analysis and the execution of several successful launches, achieving 104K DAU in the US/CA
  • Introduced and optimized the "On This Day" email notification, highlighting memories on Facebook, and enhanced the user experience to drive significant impact and improve overall engagement.
  • Designed and implemented on multiple features for email-digest (500K MAU): Enhanced weekly notifications to the primary inbox and ran complex A/B tests to steer strategic direction.
  • Managed and mentored interns and new hires with minimal or no prior industry experience, providing technical, career, data, and product guidance, conducting code reviews, and delivering consistent feedback to foster their growth.
  • Workstream lead for ‘Surfaces’: Responsible for overseeing the design and user experience of notification interfaces and landing pages, ensuring that notifications are visually appealing and effectively engage users.
  • Self-identified multiple A/B test opportunities with one of the highest-performing launches achieving 850K MAU, 350K DAU, and 100K US & CA DAU
  • Serving as the lead engineer for the Friending Notifications Experience workstream, focusing on optimizing user experience and refining strategy to enhance user engagement for friending notifications.
  • Team Privacy Lead for 2 years for broader team.
  • Stability Lead for 2+ years for extended team.
  • Ensured high-quality testing through a combination of manual testing and unit tests using Hack test, collaborating with the QA team as needed to guarantee thorough coverage
Software DesignA/B TestingData AnalysisHack (PHP)iOS pluginsNotification Service Extension+1

Adp

Software Engineering Intern

May 2019Aug 2019 · 3 mos

  • Created a central – system reliability dashboard – that integrates all health check reports, self-serve utilities and automation frameworks using Python, HTML/CSS, JavaScript frameworks and shell.
  • Developed automation using Python & Flask API for Kafka topic management and identifying lags.
  • Designed and developed automated reports to extract and analyze data from CA Service Desk and CMDB using HTML/CSS, Python, JavaScript, SOAP APIs.
PythonHTMLCSSJavaScriptFlask API

Rutgers university–new brunswick

Grader for CS112 (Data Structures)

Jan 2019May 2019 · 4 mos

Godrej india culture lab

Web Development Extern

Jan 2017Mar 2017 · 2 mos

  • Designed and developed 'Mumbai's Culture Map' which is documentation of cultural spaces in an interactive manner that allows users to reach out to and obtain a catalog of the various cultural institutions in the city.
  • Deployed Google Maps Layers, provisions were added that allowed users to search for spaces by categories.
  • Technologies used: HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Bootstrap, Google Map Layers.

Education

Rutgers University

Master's degree — Computer Science

Jan 2018Jan 2020

Dwarkadas J. Sanghvi College of Engineering

Bachelor of Engineering — Computer Engineering

Jan 2014Jan 2018

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