Barry Kaplan
Engineering Manager at Meta
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolBarry Kaplan is an engineering manager with 16 years of experience leading product and platform engineering across startups and large enterprises, currently managing teams at Meta from London. He combines deep hands-on architecture and full-stack development experience—from building Java/Solaris real-time trading clients at Goldman Sachs to co-founding mobile app studios that shipped iOS/Android and AWS-hosted REST backends—to deliver scalable, product-focused systems. At Best Buy and as a senior leader elsewhere he translated technical strategy into operational improvements that boosted profitability and reliability. Known for bridging product, operations, and go-to-market concerns, he has repeatedly scaled teams and systems through mergers, platform launches, and high-growth periods. Trained in both Computer Science and Cognitive Science at Carnegie Mellon, he brings an analytical, user-centered mindset to complex engineering problems.
16 years of coding experience
23 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Computer Science & Cognitive Science, BS, Computer Science & Cognitive Science at Carnegie Mellon University
Github Skills (200)
testing10
automation10
browser10
service-discovery10
vault10
nodejs10
mongodb10
odm10
npm-check-updates10
python10
ssh10
kubernetes10
tdd10
infrastructure-as-code10
devops10
Programming languages (23)
Github contributions (5)
systeminsights/cis-ubuntu-ansible
Feb 2016 - Sep 2018
Audit and modify an Ubuntu system to satisfy CIS (Center for Internet Security) rules
Contributions:23 pushes, 25 branches in 2 years 7 months
centerauditsecuritysatisfylinux
systeminsights/mocha-marble-bdd
Jan 2016 - May 2022
A custom extension to the Mocha BDD UI to support RxJs5 marble tests
Contributions:1 PR, 36 pushes, 3 branches in 6 years 6 months
marble-testsjesttestingbddrxjs5
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