Summary
Brian Wichers is an engineering manager based in Burlingame, CA with 11 years of experience building and leading teams at high-impact social platforms, currently guiding engineering efforts at Meta after leadership roles at X/Twitter. He brings deep hands-on expertise in systems and test automation from his early career—where a SurveyMonkey internship yielded a 10x speedup for QA automation—and has progressed into tech leadership focused on recommendation and video product engineering. Comfortable across C++, Java, Python, JavaScript, and test tooling like Selenium, Brian blends product-minded engineering with operational rigor to deliver scalable, cross-team solutions. He won campus recognition for an award-winning 3D VR game, showing a long-standing creative bent alongside technical depth. Colleagues know him as a curious, adaptable leader who values measurable impact and mentorship while keeping a developer’s attention to detail.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
University of California Santa Cruz
English, Spanish