Summary
Bharathwajan Kannan is a seasoned software engineering manager with 14 years of experience leading product and engineering efforts at Meta, focused on connecting people to meaningful communities through Facebook Groups. He has deep hands-on experience across Android and app surfaces, shipping features that improved notifications, recommendations, and content creation for a product reaching over a billion monthly users. Based in the San Francisco Bay Area, he combines strong technical chops from a top-scoring Computer Engineering degree with a practiced ability to scale social product features and systems. Known for improving growth and engagement mechanics, he moves between strategic leadership and implementation details, coaching teams to deliver measurable user impact. An early interest in real-time communications (VoIP/XMPP/RTP/STUN/TURN) informs his pragmatic approach to building reliable, user-facing systems.
13 years of coding experience
Bachelor's degree, Computer Engineering, 9.61 / 10, Bachelor's degree, Computer Engineering, 9.61 / 10 at Madras Institute of Technology(Anna University)
Higher secondary, 97.4%, Higher secondary, 97.4% at Prince Mat Hr. Sec. School
Hindi, English, Tamil