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ANNA EKHOLM

San Francisco,CA

Overview

5
5
years of professional experience

Work History

Senior Software Engineer

Applied Intuition
Mountain View, CA
04.2025 - Current
  • Developed and executed communications framework for sending generic HTTPS requests from cloud to vehicle
  • Created framework to stream video from vehicle to cloud using WebRTC, overseeing full implementation.
  • Migrated existing products from AWS to OCI, achieving significant cost savings.

Software Engineer, Central Youth

META
Menlo Park, CA
01.2024 - 03.2025
  • Developed system design for API tracking age information across Meta family of apps, supporting the processing of 20M queries per second. Improved test coverage after launch to ensure reliable age gating even despite service outages.
  • Created tracking platform to monitor individual cases of teen safety within Instagram comments and profiles. Identified proper configurations and performance metrics to ensure a reduction in cases.
  • Responded to teen safety legislation in multiple states, creating a mechanism for individuals to prove their age and be subject to the correct privacy restrictions. Rolled up Age API processes to be included in the initial launch of Instagram Teen Accounts.
  • Improved privacy by migrating inter-app code bases from GraphQL to Meta-only call stack, resulting in more secure access controls to user age data.
  • Supported engineering team by developing team roadmap with senior engineers and TPMs, leading development of engineering best practices to reduce on-call load, and supporting on-call one full week every 6 weeks.

Software Engineer, Instagram Well-being

META
Menlo Park, CA
01.2021 - 01.2024
  • Led design efforts for Instagram’s response to Canada’s Online News Regulation Act (Formerly C-18) by detecting and building a database of news publishers on the platform and blocking viewer access when the user is geo-located in Canada.
  • Collaborated with XFN including PM and Design to develop in-app friction that reduced the number of “harmful follows” (adults known to engage in suspicious behavior among teens) for individual accounts by 5%.
  • Added potential content classifiers to the Explore page, reducing the amount of suggested political and polarizing content.
  • Designed and built appeals system for users to respond to strikes on their account regarding misinformation.

Software Engineer Intern, Facebook Connectivity

META
Menlo Park, CA
01.2020 - 01.2020

Software Development Engineer Intern

AMAZON
New York, NY
01.2020 - 01.2020

Education

BS - Computer Science, American Studies

STANFORD UNIVERSITY
Stanford, CA
01.2021

Skills

  • Programming Languages: Python, PHP, C
  • Other frameworks: Terraform, AWS, Kubernetes

Timeline

Senior Software Engineer

Applied Intuition
04.2025 - Current

Software Engineer, Central Youth

META
01.2024 - 03.2025

Software Engineer, Instagram Well-being

META
01.2021 - 01.2024

Software Engineer Intern, Facebook Connectivity

META
01.2020 - 01.2020

Software Development Engineer Intern

AMAZON
01.2020 - 01.2020

BS - Computer Science, American Studies

STANFORD UNIVERSITY

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