Ajk Palikuqi
Software Engineering Manager at Meta
Mountain View, California, United States
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Top SchoolAjk Palikuqi is a software engineering manager in Mountain View with 12 years of hands-on experience and 15 years driving teams focused on ML systems, performance, and reliability. At Meta he leads efforts to deliver ML recommendations and optimize client/server frameworks across Instagram, Facebook, and Ads, with deep expertise in resource-constrained environments (memory, CPU, disk, network, battery). He previously founded and led ActiveCura as CTO, building backend, mobile clients, and ML integrations that sustained >50% annual growth for seven years. His background spans scalable game backend work and full-stack optimizations at MZ, plus framework development and systems roles earlier in his career. Known for combining product-minded leadership with low-level performance tuning, he excels at translating ML research into efficient, production-ready systems. Based in Silicon Valley, he bridges startup grit and large-scale operational rigor.
12 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
University of Toronto
English, Italian, Albanian, French
Stackoverflow
1,874reputation
117kreached
85answers
4questions
Github Skills (131)
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Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
AjkP/InterviewQuestions
Apr 2014 - Jan 2015
Contributions:16 commits, 1 push in 8 months
AjkP/jetpack
Mar 2016 - Dec 2016
Contributions:33 pushes, 2 branches in 9 months
protectspeedjetpack-composeandroidjetpack
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