Adrian Machado is a Staff Software Engineer with 11 years of experience building full-stack web systems and data-driven products, currently helping scale Zuplo from Oakland. A former Meta engineer, he led cross-functional teams on Watch Web, bootstrapped Facebook Podcasts, and drove a 200% increase in video SEO traffic, demonstrating both product instincts and execution. He is skilled across frontend and backend stacks, with practical experience in real-time event processing, tooling, and performance optimization, and has recently been applying machine and deep learning to augment developer workflows. Beyond code, he brings a research-minded approach (University of Waterloo training and an MLP defect-detection project that improved precision by 40%) and a habit of improving engineering quality through mentorship, automation, and infrastructure work.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Degree Computer Engineering, Bachelor's Degree Computer Engineering at University of Waterloo
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