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Trevor Ford

San Francisco,CA

Summary

Accomplished engineer and technical leader with extensive experience spanning realtime flight control systems to planet-scale internet platforms. Proven expertise in multiple modern languages and frameworks (Go, Python, PHP, React, Javascript) and ability to quickly ramp up on new technologies. Recognized for delivering high-impact projects for Facebook Ads and Instagram.

As an instrumental leader of Facebook's Engineering Bootcamp program, mentored and enabled the success of hundreds of engineers - directly contributing to the company's growth into a global technology titan. Adept at managing teams, defining technical roadmaps, and driving innovation through senior leadership roles.

Prior to Meta, spearheaded lead engineering initiatives at Salesforce - built multi-system integrations, founded architecture team, and received multiple awards. Earlier career included architecting distributed systems, representing companies at standards bodies, and contributing to core product development.

Overview

27
27
years of professional experience

Work History

Founding Engineer

ComplyCo
10.2023 - 03.2024
  • Seed stage; many hats: building features and infra for financial compliance system
  • Developed integration system (webhooks and API), public APIs and SDKs
  • Skills: AWS, Golang, React, Typescript, GraphQL, Docker, Terraform.

Principal Software Engineer

Confirm HR
02.2023 - 08.2023
  • Shipped customer self manage data, Employee NPS feature, i18n, prompt generation for AI features; refactored codebase for type safety.
  • Skills: AWS, Python / Django, React, Javascript, Typescript, ChatGPT, Docker

Senior Software Engineer, Messenger Well-Being

Meta Platforms Inc.
07.2022 - 11.2022

Infra team lead, building systems for people to protect themselves on Messenger

  • Reduced platform's CSAM exposures by 28%
  • Reduced team's "Out of SLA" task count to zero

Senior Software Engineer, Instagram

Meta Platforms Inc.
05.2019 - 06.2022

Business Insights Lead, shipping features to inform creators about content performance.

  • Audience Demographics: who follows you and your content?
  • Download Your Information: data portability
  • Reach Breakdowns: who does your content reach?
  • Instagram Live and Reels Insights: how are your Live and Reels videos performing?

Senior Software Engineer, Spatial Computing

Meta Platforms Inc.
02.2018 - 04.2019

Developed infrastructure for global device relocalization for millions of users.

Senior Software Engineer, Facebook

Meta Platforms Inc.
11.2012 - 01.2018

Lead engineer on various Ads projects:

  • Ads Manager: designed+shipped "draft ads"

Creation Of Drafts Associated With Sponsored Content (20180063066)

  • Business Manager: founding engineer, built multiple parts of system
  • Ads Targeting:
  • Engagement Targeting feature

Custom Audience Generation Using Engagement Targeting (20180158099)

  • Reach Estimator: improved performance and accuracy by 75%
  • Geo Targeting: improved accuracy by 30%

Enterprise Engineer, Facebook

Meta Platforms Inc.
04.2011 - 10.2012

Lead engineer responsible for implementing and maintaining various systems:

* Recruiting, Compensation and Internal Sales tools

* Unity: realtime FacebookSalesforce data sync

* Facebook CRM: initiated project, recruited engineers, led development

Lead Member of Technical Staff

Salesforce.com
09.2009 - 04.2011
  • Lead engineer on internal Salesforce.com org for Marketing, Sales, Customer Support and numerous internal functions including time-off management and volunteering
  • Founding member of the IT Architecture team
  • Created and maintained vendor evaluation framework
  • Technologies: Salesforce, Force.com, Apex, Visualforce, SOQL, SOSL, Javascript.

Senior Software Engineer

Salesforce.com
03.2007 - 09.2009
  • Built multi-system integrations using multiple technologies
  • Mentored team on design and implementation
  • Technologies: BPEL, XSLT, XPath, Java and JavaScript, Force.com (SOQL, Apex, API), Web Services.

Technical Architect Consultant

Cape Clear
09.2006 - 02.2007
  • Services Consultant; trained customers in SOA best practices, designed and implemented SOA solutions
  • Technologies: Java, Eclipse, XML, XML Schema, WSDL, SOAP, XSLT, XPath, BPEL.

Senior Systems Architect

Software AG
09.2000 - 08.2006
  • Architected distributed systems for customers using SOA+BPM principles, J2EE, XML, and web services
  • Represented Software AG at several meetings of standards bodies (W3C, WS-I, IETF)
  • Served on leadership board of SOA and BPM Competency Centers.

Software Engineer

Software AG
07.1997 - 09.2000
  • Designed and built Bolero product's Object-Relational persistence layer and deployment components

Education

B.Sc. Computing Science -

Staffordshire University

Skills

  • Programming Languages
  • Web application development
  • Amazon Web Services
  • Project Leadership
  • Software Development
  • API development experience
  • Oral and written communications
  • New employee mentoring
  • DevOps Best Practices
  • Design reviews
  • Project Planning

Patents

  • Creation Of Drafts Associated With Sponsored Content (20180063066)
  • Custom Audience Generation Using Engagement Targeting (20180158099)

Activities

  • Engineering Bootcamp Coach Lead, 01/01/20, 01/01/22, Managed whole Bootcamp cohorts
  • Bootcamp Presenter, 01/01/19, 01/01/22, Taught hundreds of Bootcampers
  • Engineering Bootcamp Mentor Coach, 01/01/14, 01/01/22, Also co-developed Coach program
  • Engineering Bootcamp Mentor, 01/01/12, 01/01/22, Mentored dozens of Bootcampers
  • Engineering Intern Manager, 01/01/12, 01/01/22, Mentored 8 Interns

Timeline

Founding Engineer

ComplyCo
10.2023 - 03.2024

Principal Software Engineer

Confirm HR
02.2023 - 08.2023

Senior Software Engineer, Messenger Well-Being

Meta Platforms Inc.
07.2022 - 11.2022

Senior Software Engineer, Instagram

Meta Platforms Inc.
05.2019 - 06.2022

Senior Software Engineer, Spatial Computing

Meta Platforms Inc.
02.2018 - 04.2019

Senior Software Engineer, Facebook

Meta Platforms Inc.
11.2012 - 01.2018

Enterprise Engineer, Facebook

Meta Platforms Inc.
04.2011 - 10.2012

Lead Member of Technical Staff

Salesforce.com
09.2009 - 04.2011

Senior Software Engineer

Salesforce.com
03.2007 - 09.2009

Technical Architect Consultant

Cape Clear
09.2006 - 02.2007

Senior Systems Architect

Software AG
09.2000 - 08.2006

Software Engineer

Software AG
07.1997 - 09.2000

B.Sc. Computing Science -

Staffordshire University
Trevor Ford