Andreas Savvides
Software Engineer at Meta
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolAndreas Savvides is an experienced software engineer and leader with 11 years building scalable web products and leading large, distributed engineering organizations across Meta and Twitter. He blends hands-on front-end and full-stack expertise—evidenced by contributions to the Radium React styling library—with strategic program-building, having founded and scaled reusable component teams that saved significant engineering effort. At Twitter he served as a Senior Staff Group Tech Lead overseeing 150+ engineers, drove cross-platform experimentation training, and led migrations from legacy APIs to GraphQL to simplify systems and cut technical debt. Now on Cross-Meta Integrity, he focuses on actor integrity and compromise detection across Facebook, Instagram, Reality Labs and Workplace, applying security-minded engineering at scale. A strong mentor and multiplier, he actively cultivates leadership in others and champions diversity and accessibility, having taught and developed curricula for Code First: Girls. He brings a pragmatic mix of experimental rigor, open-source sensibility, and product-focused delivery grounded in formal CS training from Oxford and Reading.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
BSc (First Class Honours), Computer Science, BSc (First Class Honours), Computer Science at The University of ReadingMSc, Computer Science, MSc, Computer Science at University of Oxford
English, Greek
Github Skills (8)
testing10
css10
styles10
javascript10
front-end-development10
react10
jtest10
jes10
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
FormidableLabs/radium
Jul 2015 - Aug 2015
A toolchain for React component styling.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:21 commits, 12 PRs, 40 comments in 1 month
Contributions summary:Andreas primarily contributed to the Radium library by addressing bugs, improving code quality, and enhancing testing. They fixed issues related to null and undefined CSS values, added and expanded unit tests, and improved the clarity of error messages. The user also focused on refining the code base and ensuring it met the project's linting standards.
react-componentreactstylingtoolchain
AnSavvides/d3act
Aug 2015 - Sep 2016
Contributions:53 commits, 4 PRs, 28 pushes in 1 year 1 month
react
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