Brian Nieves
Software Engineer at Facebook
California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBrian Nieves is a backend software engineer with 11 years of experience focused on messaging infrastructure at Meta, where he builds scalable systems that prioritize privacy and operational efficiency. A Duke Computer Science graduate, he has a track record of reducing worklists and storage processing by orders of magnitude through thoughtful rearchitecting and indicator-driven frameworks. His internship work at Facebook demonstrates a pragmatic balance of performance optimization, logging, and privacy mitigations, while earlier research roles exposed him to distributed systems, Spark, and web-hosting pipelines. Based in California, he blends production engineering with research-minded experimentation—often shipping solutions that measurably cut cost and risk. Colleagues rely on him for clean backend designs and a methodical approach to large-scale data and job orchestration.
11 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, 3.7, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, 3.7 at Duke University
Stackoverflow
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4questions
Github Skills (21)
android6
pyspark6
spring-mvc6
android-fragments6
python6
django6
java6
apache-spark6
image6
spring-data-jpa5
spring-boot5
spring5
working-set3
spring-security3
hound2
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
MotivatedMemoryLab/mouse-track-task
Jul 2018 - May 2019
Contributions:36 pushes, 1 branch in 9 months
bitasy/CodeWithFriends-Spring2020
May 2020 - May 2020
Code With Friends Spring 2020!
Contributions:35 pushes, 5 branches in 23 days
spring-bootspring-mvcspringjavaspring-security
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