Summary
Maria Hollweck is an engineering leader and hands-on software engineer, currently an Engineering Manager at Meta in New York, guiding growth initiatives for WhatsApp and Horizon Worlds while shaping emerging-market experiences. With about 11 years of experience, she blends front-end, mobile, and backend expertise—React.js, React Native, native Android, and PHP—to deliver scalable user experiences. Her career spans software engineering at Meta on Facebook Lite, Messenger Kids, and streaming/video experiences, plus a stint as a co-founder of Hackaburg and a part-time React Native expert, reflecting a blend of product, engineering, and community-building. She earned a BSc in Business Informatics from University of Applied Sciences Regensburg and pursued computer science studies at Columbia, underscoring a cross-cultural, interdisciplinary approach. Based in New York, she combines leadership with a deep coding passion and a track record of mentoring teams to ship reliable software at scale.
11 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Business Informatics, 1.5 (German), 3.5 (U.S.), Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Business Informatics, 1.5 (German), 3.5 (U.S.) at University of Applied Sciences Regensburg
Non-Degree, Computer Science, 3.6, Non-Degree, Computer Science, 3.6 at Columbia University in the City of New York
German, English