Anant Narayanan
Engineering Director at Meta
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolAnant Narayanan is an engineering director based in San Francisco with 20 years of experience building large-scale distributed systems and product-facing AI features. He currently leads efforts to bring AI-driven experiences to next-generation smart glasses at Meta, after running cross-hardware teams that shipped Meta’s voice assistant across Portal, Quest, and Ray-Ban Stories. Earlier stints include founding-stage engineering at Ozlo and early developer-facing work at Firebase where he built core integrations for Angular, Ember, React and Dart and contributed to well-known open-source projects like angularfire and emberfire. His background spans systems and standards work at Mozilla (including WebRTC and Firefox Sync) through hands-on backend and frontend contributions, reflecting a rare blend of low-level protocol know-how and product-focused engineering. An active open-source contributor, he has improved library performance, test coverage, and build automation across multiple languages and platforms—evidence of both deep technical craft and developer empathy. He pairs an M.S. in Parallel & Distributed Computer Systems with a track record of turning research-grade ideas into shipped products.
20 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
M.S. Parallel & Distributed Computer Systems, M.S. Parallel & Distributed Computer Systems at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (VU Amsterdam)B.Tech. Computer Engineering, B.Tech. Computer Engineering at Malaviya National Institute of Technology Jaipur
English, Hindi, Tamil
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (39)
unit-testing10
json10
firebase-security10
javascript10
ember-data10
user-authentication10
authentication10
stream10
emberjs10
php10
front-end-development10
angularjs10
jwt10
html10
dart10
Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
googlearchive/firefeed
Dec 2012 - Mar 2014
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:125 commits in 1 year 3 months
Contributions summary:Anant contributed significantly to the development of a Twitter-like application, Firefeed. Their work involved implementing basic login and logout functionality using a Firebase authentication client, which included creating and managing user sessions. The user also added support for profile pages and implemented a real-time stream of user posts by leveraging Firebase's real-time database features. Furthermore, the user added a search functionality, and ensured that the application runs on a Facebook login.
googlearchive/firereader
Jun 2013 - Aug 2013
Firereader: A feed reader built with Firebase and AngularJS
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:8 commits in 1 month
Contributions summary:Anant primarily contributed to the front-end of the Firereader application, focusing on UI improvements. They made several iterations on the "about" blurb, refining its presentation and content. Furthermore, the user integrated Google Analytics tracking code, enhancing the application's ability to monitor user activity. The changes primarily involved modifications to HTML and JavaScript files to implement the intended functionality.
firestorefirebaseangularjsfeedangular
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