Summary
Alan Cannistraro is a veteran product engineering leader with nearly a decade of recent senior experience and a 25+ year trajectory building media and consumer apps, currently directing Product Engineering for Instagram for TV in Mill Valley. He blends deep product intuition and hands-on engineering from roles at Apple and Facebook—where he shipped flagship media features and led mobile teams—with startup grit as a founder and former CTO, notably at Apollo Neuro and Rheo. Alan designs experiences that rethink how people consume media on novel screens, pairing elegant interaction design with scalable engineering roadmaps. He’s comfortable across disciplines—design, firmware-level media work, and executive product strategy—and has a history of pitching and shipping risky, category-defining ideas. An occasional prompt engineer on GitHub, he brings a professional vibe to code and an eye for surprising, tactile user experiences (from wearables to living-room video).
9 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
BASc Computer Engineering, BASc Computer Engineering at University of Waterloo
University of California, Los Angeles
Stanford University