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Adam Mosseri (VP Facebook)
Interface desginer and software engineer that values innovative design. More interested in product than in service. Specialties: Bridging the gap between design and engineering.
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Aileen Chen (Software Engineer Facebook)
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Allison Swope (Product Manager Facebook)
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Amber Roy (Software Engineer Facebook)
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Andrew Imm (Software Engineer Facebook)
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Andrew Mo (Product Manager Facebook)
Seasoned entrepreneur and executive with nearly a decade of experience working in China & SE Asia. Track record of building cross - disciplined teams and launching award - winning products for a global audience.
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Andrew Tulloch (Software Engineer Facebook)
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Ansha Yu (Software Engineer Facebook)
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Aparna Lakshmiratan (Technical program manager Facebook)
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Astha Agarwal (Software Engineer Facebook)
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Athan Stephanopoulaos (President NowThis)
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Benoit Dumoulin (Engineering manager Facebook)
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Brad Hill (Security Engineer Facebook)
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Bradley Owens (Product marketing manager Facebook)
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Brett Lavalla (Software engineer Facebook)
build interactive experiences with web standards that are used by millions of people around the world everyday.
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Brian Hale (Growth Marketing Director Facebook)
Search Engine Optimization, Online Marketing, Social Marketing, Traffic Generation, Data Analytics, Business Management, Business analysis, Business Development, Specialties: Search Marketing,Social Media Marketing,Software Conversion,Driving Traffic,Conversion Optimization,Analytics,Business Development,Vendor Management,SEM,SEO
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Chen Zheng (Product Manager Facebook)
A former Scientist and Analyst, now an entrepreneurial Product Manager with passion for changing the world with technology.
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Chetan Gupta (Product manager Facebook)
I am currently working at Facebook as a product manager focused on 360 video and 360 live. Currently my main focus is on 360/VR media though I have strong interests in general product development and applications of AI/ML tech. Feel free to reach out if you work on VR, 360, or have general interests that overlap.
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Chris Cox (Chief product officer Facebook)
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Chris Pruett (Head of Development Engineering for Mobile Facebook)
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Christina Heller (CEO VR Playhouse)
Christina Heller is the CEO and Co-Founder of VR Playhouse, a VR creative studio based in Los Angeles. VR Playhouse provides production services for 360 and volumetric video, computer animation, and interactive content for VR and AR. Since founding in 2014 VR Playhouse has completed over 50 projects, some of which have been featured at SXSW, Sundance, and Cannes.
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Christina Ting (Marketing operations manager Facebook)
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Christine De martini (Product marketing lead Facebook)
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Christoph Pojer (Engineering Manager Facebook)
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Connor Treacy (Partner Engineer Facebook)
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Daniel Danker (Product manager Facebook)
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David Marcus (VP of messaging products Facebook)
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David Park (Product manager Facebook)
I love building offerings that solve important user problems and building businesses around these offerings.
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David Pio (Engineering Manager Facebook)
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Deb Liu (VP of platform and marketplace Facebook)
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Dolapo Falola (Engineering Manager Facebook)
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Dwayne Reeves (Software Engineer Facebook)
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Emil Sjölander (Software Engineer Facebook)
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Ergin Erant (Engineering Manager Facebook)
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Erika Nardini (CEO Barstool sports)
A dynamic media and technology executive, Erika is known for her tenacity and passion for building, marketing and monetizing digital brands.
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Evgeny Kuzyakov (Software Engineer Facebook)
I've spent a lot of time improving my programming and problem solving skills. Finally our team archived Gold Medal in the ACM ICPC World Finals in 2008. I also love to play and develop computer games.
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Fidji Simo (President NowThis)
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Gary Urteaga (VP of Business Development Facebook)
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Guy Cross (Strategic Partnerships Facebook)
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Helen Tsang (Engineering Manager Facebook)
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Hendri (Software Engineer Facebook)
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Ime Archibong (VP of product partnerships Facebook)
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Jack (Peng) Zhang (Founder & President GeekPark)
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Jason Blum (Founder Blumhouse Productions)
Founder and CEO of Blumhouse Productions, where we are focused on producing high-quality, micro-budget films for wide release (including ‘Paranormal Activity,' ‘Insidious,' ‘The Purge,' and ‘Sinister' franchises). 'Paranormal Activity,' my first movie that followed this model, cost $15,000 to make, and grossed nearly $200 million worldwide, making it the most profitable film in the history of Hollywood.In 2014, I produced the Academy Award-nominated drama film Whiplash, which was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture. On the television side of the business, I produced and received an Emmy for HBO's 'The Normal Heart.'
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Jeff Hui (Marketing operations manager Facebook)
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Jenny Yuen (Engineering manager Facebook)
I manage several cross platform teams (Android, iOS, JS, php) working on helping people connect with friends and family and inform them about events in the world through News Feed.
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Jill Christ (Research manager Facebook)
Experienced user experience researcher focused on user centered design and customer centricity. Specializing in running iterative usability test sessions, to inform design decisions, and strategic business decisions. Coordinating usability feedback sessions such as traditional usability testing, remote user testing, card sorting, focus groups, and contextual inquiry. Interested in remote user research, running better stakeholder reviews with user-research, using social media for participant recruitment, and hi-fidelity prototyping. Looking to connecting with those who not only discover usability issues but want to inspire change in the products they are testing!
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Joanna Tong (Growth Manager Facebook)
Joanna is responsible for the growth and adoption of Workplace across the EMEA region, working with companies and organisations to improve their collaboration, transparency and engagement through using Workplace.
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Joaquin Quinonero Candela (Director, AML Facebook)
Specialties: Mathematical Modelling, Artificial Intelligence, Data Mining, Machine Learning Research, Bayesian and Probabilisitic Inference
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Johannes Kopf (Research Scientist Facebook)
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John Anderson (Software Engineer Facebook)
I enjoy helping people, products, and companies grow.Specialties include: General management across product, sales, and global business operations.Industry expertise in global expansion, payments, consumer product management, risk & fraud management, community building, internet marketing, strategy, analytics, advertising, marketplaces, b2b, SMB, machine learning, e-commerce.
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Josh Twist (Product manager Facebook)
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Julia Sourikoff (Head of VR Tool North America)
Julia heads up the virtual reality division of the award-winning commercial production company, Tool of North America. For nearly twenty years, Tool has mastered the art of visual storytelling through video, interactive installations, and digital experiences, receiving honors at the Emmys, Oscars, Webbys, DGA Awards, Cannes Lions, AICPs, and SXSW.
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Justin Rogers (Software Engineering Manager Facebook)
I'm a developer and architect for web platform and web browser related features. I have a passion for bringing increased access to information and new experiences through the work I do at Microsoft on the Web Platform and Microsoft Edge. My focus is on the stabilization of the existing Web APIs for interoperability across browsers while developing new APIs for emerging technologies such as Service Worker, WebVR/AR and new input/sensor models.
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Kasper Kopec (Software Engineer Facebook)
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Kate Orseth (Product marketing manager Facebook)
Strategy & Operations Manager, Emerging Business @ Facebook, Operations and Planning Manager @ Facebook,Engagement Manager @ McKinsey & Company
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Katie Coons (Software Engineer Facebook)
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Kemal El Moujahid (Product Manager Facebook)
PM in the Messenger Team @ Facebook, working on AI powered services. Product guy and Entrepreneur. Previously VP Products @ Fuze, Video-Conferencing and Enterprise Communications provider. Previously CEO and co-founder of LiveMinutes (acquired in 2015), real-time Team Collaboration App. Previously founded Teacheo, France's first live online tutoring Marketplace. My skill set range from Business to Technology, and I mostly enjoy mixing both to build great teams, products and businesses
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Kevin Thai (Software Engineer Facebook)
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Khailee Ng (Managing Partner 500 Startups)
I’ m a Managing Partner of Silicon Valley’ s most active seed venture capital firm,500 Startups.The firm has done over 1,600 investments in 50 countries,of which I’ ve led 120 + investments in Southeast Asian tech startups,including Grab,Carousell,Bukalapak and other regional champions.
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Konstantin Raev (Software Engineer Facebook)
JavaScript (ES6, React, Angular 1 & 2, Node.js), Amazon Web Services (EC2, S3, Elastic Beanstalk, Route 53), Microsoft Azure (Web Sites, Database, Storage, CDN, Node.js API), iOS and Android Apps (React Native, Phonegap, HockeyApp, TestFlight), Chrome Apps, NoSQL (MongoDB, LevelDB), SQL (PostgreSQL, MySQL, Oracle, Timesten, etc), SDLC (SCRUM, Agile, Waterfall)
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Leo Olebe (Global Gaming Partnerships Director Facebook)
Leo leads the global Games business at Facebook, with teams based in Menlo Park, London and Singapore
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Lisa Jones (Data Scientist Facebook)
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Lucas Rocha (Engineering Manager Facebook)
Currently at Facebook leading a team focused on the development of frameworks for building efficient UIs at scale across multiple platforms. My team works on open source projects like Litho, Yoga, and ComponentKit.
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Luke Sernau (Software Engineer Facebook)
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Manohar Paluri (Research Lead Facebook)
My experience spans Computer Vision, Robotics, Machine Learning and Software Engineering which is an important component that helps deliver in all the above mentioned fields. I enjoy prototyping and take it as a challenge to learn new things, thrive in challenging environments and build cool products. I have a simple goal in life, create something cool, something useful and in the process have fun and learn! Currently my goal is to build world's best image and video understanding system.
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Mark Peng (Software Engineer Facebook)
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Mark Zuckerberg (CEO and Co-founder Facebook)
Mark Elliot Zuckerberg is an American computer programmer and Internet entrepreneur. He is a co-founder of Facebook, and currently operates as its chairman and chief executive officer
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Matias Castello (Partner Manager Facebook)
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Matt Jones (Software engineer Facebook)
I've worked on designing, building, and maintaining spam- and abuse- detection systems; concentrating on moving quickly, understanding the data available, and fixing in the short-term but designing for the long-term.
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Megan Summers (Global Head of Production Facebook)
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Megan Witmer (Research Manager Facebook)
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Melody Chu (Product marketing lead Facebook)
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Merlyn Deng (Product Manager Facebook)
Currently a product manager at Facebook in the Applied Machine Learning group. Merlyn likes traveling, Egyptology,precision medicine,guzheng music,machine learning and gardening.
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Michael Abrash (Chief scientist, Oculus research Facebook)
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Michael Slater (Product Manager Facebook)
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Mike Armstrong (Software Engineer Facebook)
Specialties: Rendering, animation, collision detection and physics, tools and low level system programming. Twitter: @m1k3
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Mike Booth (Product Manager Facebook)
I'm building a team to explore how Virtual Reality can empower the 1.5+ billion people on Facebook to share their experiences and connect with each other in amazing and powerful new ways. If you're a veteran game developer experienced in building multiplayer online 3D games, come help me build the future of Social VR!
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Mike Howard (Product Manager Facebook)
I am a CS major, Stanford MBA and former analytics/ data viz aficionado now working in Product Management at Oculus. I have a passion for creating delightful, intuitive products.
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Mike LeBeau (Product Manager Oculus)
A dedicated researcher, Megan is enthusiastic about learning and discovery. She started her research career as a bioengineer in consumer goods, medical devices and pharma, but quickly realized her passion for people and the psychological processes driving their consumption. After graduate work, including ethnographic and experimental research studying implicit and explicit consumption motivation, Megan returned to industry as a User Experience Researcher. She now employs mixed methods to investigate Payments and Commerce experiences at the foundational and evaluative level. She enjoys cooking, ceramics and sewing as thoughtful departures from her professional endeavors
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Mike Schroepfer (Chief Technology Officer Facebook)
Mike Schroepfer is an entrepreneur, technical architect and manager who is the CTO at Facebook since his appointment in March 2013. He was previously Vice President of Engineering in the same company since July 2008
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Tue, 18th Apr City National Civic
10:30 - 11:30 • Keynote day 1
Wed, 19th Apr City National Civic
10:30 - 11:30 • Keynote day 2
Mikhail Larionov (Engineering Manager Facebook)
Building software products for a decade. Roles ranging from developer to product lead and architect and lately to engineering manager.Currently I run engineering team at Messenger Platform.
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Necip Fazil Ayan (Engineering manager Facebook)
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Wed, 19th Apr Hall G
12:00 - 12:20 • Use machine translations to remove language barriers on Facebook
Nicholas Carlson (Editor-in-chief Insider)
I'm a business journalist. The industry I cover most is the technology industry, but I'll write about whatever interests me and readers.
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Olga Kuznetsov (Engineering manager Facebook)
I love working on projects that are used by customers that I can interact with, working with passionate people and full stack ownership
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Oren Katzeff (Head of programming Tastemade)
Seasoned business executive with 12+ years of experience in general management, business development and business affairs
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Rachel Franklin (Head of social VR Facebook)
I’m an “approachable executive” with over 20 years of experience leading production teams and creating interactive entertainment products. The varied branches of my career have extended to running businesses, leading engineering teams, and marketing new brands. I’m proud to say that I’ve played a role in launching hundreds of entertainment products, video games, websites and live services with some incredibly talented teams.
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Rachel Tucker (Product Manager Facebook)
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Raman Hansi (UX Research Facebook)
My expertise and interests center on bridging people and technology together by using creativity, data, and intelligence to create and deliver meaningful user experiences for people when they use technology to improve their lives.
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Ray Guang (Software Engineer Facebook)
- Mobile App Development - Large Scale Service Development - BI Data Mining Specialties: Java C++/C# WCF WPF SQL, PHP Objective - C HTML Javascript
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Regina Dugan (VP of engineering and head of building 8 Facebook)
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Richard Sim (Product marketing director Facebook)
Facebook executive with over 20 years of experience in strategy, product management, and product marketing. Areas of expertise include online advertising, predictive analytics, web usability, and consumer software.
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Ricky Van Veen (Director Facebook)
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Rohan Kuruvilla (Software Engineer Facebook)
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Ryan Horrigan (CEO Felix and Paul Studios)
Virtual reality executive and former film studio executive with 10+ years in the entertainment and virtual reality businesses, leading content development, strategy and partnerships, business development and distribution, while overseeing the production of virtual reality experiences and series with industry leading writers, directors, actors and producers. Strong relationships in VR, film, TV, digital and technology in Los Angeles, Silicon Valley, New York. Previously served as an executive for the studio behind back-to-back Academy Award Best Picture Winners, 12 Years A Slave and Birdman, and 2016 Oscar winners The Revenant and The Big Short.
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Sam Krug (Product manager Facebook)
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Scott Hershkowitz (Partnerships Director Facebook)
Work closely with Facebook's media product organization to create opportunities for media companies to generate revenue directly on Facebook. Responsible for strategy and go-to-market execution of any related programs. Specialties: Business Development, Licensing, Contract Negotiation, Relationship Management, Product Development, Modeling
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Shannon Chen (Research scientist Facebook)
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Simon Cross (Product Manager Facebook)
I'm a product manager and engineer who likes building things. At Facebook, I've worded on both consumer-facing and developer-facing products - Facebook Login (nee Facebook Connect), Social Plugins, and the APIs and SDKs used by hundreds of thousands of developers and hundreds of millions of people each week.
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Simon Fuller (Founder and CEO XIX entertainment)
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Stef Smet (Product Designer Facebook)
Product design, user experience, interface design, system thinker, mobile, iOS, Android, web, AR, VR, Unity, 3D,prototyping,JavaScript,animation
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Stephen Ellis (Strategic Partnership Manager Facebook)
I'm going to help shape the future of esports and gaming. I encourage everyone to be open minded before drawing conclusions and enjoy the journey!
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Susan Kwok (Technical program Manager Facebook)
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Suvrat Joshi (Product manager Facebook)
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Tejal Parekh (Product Marketing Manager Facebook)
Hands on marketing executive with proven track of putting companies and initiatives on the map. Passionate about evangelizing how technology improves lives at work and at home. Experienced in creating markets, hiring great people, honing product and market vision, crafting partnerships, executing boldly and delivering rapid and profitable growth.
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Tom Occhino (Engineering Manager Facebook)
Front-end web developer with experience architecting and managing large applications. Focus on standards, organization, clean code, and expandability.Specialties: JavaScript, HTML, and CSS development
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Volodymyr Giginiak (Engineering Manager Facebook)
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Yael Macguire (Director, Connectivity program Facebook)
Mike Schroepfer is an entrepreneur, technical architect and manager who is the CTO at Facebook since his appointment in March 2013. He was previously Vice President of Engineering in the same company since July 2008
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Yangqing Jia (Software Engineer Facebook)
I am hiring talents to join our team that builds Facebook's future AI platform across all products. If you are passionate about AI, machine learning, high performance computation, mobile, IoT, etc, please feel free to reach out at jiayq@fb.com or me@daggerfs.com.
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Yelena Rachitsky (Executive Producer Oculus)
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Yuzhi Zheng (Software Engineer Facebook)