Chris Marra
Director, Product Management at Meta
Greater Boston United States
Summary
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Top SchoolChris Marra is a product leader with 14 years of experience building connectivity and infrastructure products at scale, currently directing product management at Meta where he combines open-source stewardship, cluster engineering, and model deployment efforts. He has led cross-regional teams across Boston, California, and Israel on initiatives like Magma, Express Wi‑Fi, and TIP Open Wi‑Fi, and was a founding PM of Facebook’s Boston office. Chris blends hands-on technical contributions (including back-end work on the popular The Blue Alliance robotics webapp) with strategic program building—securing GPUs, shepherding open models, and advocating for sustainable networking. His background in robotics engineering and early product roles at Google, Microsoft, and Instagram give him a rare mix of systems-level curiosity and product execution. He’s also vocal about diversity in hiring and pragmatic about responding through the right channels for Meta-related outreach.
14 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
BS Engineering: Robotics, BS Engineering: Robotics at Franklin W. Olin College of EngineeringSouth Windsor High SchoolLondon School of Economics and Political Science
English
Github Skills (9)
robot10
php10
robotics10
back-end-development10
python9
api8
apidoc8
database7
databases7
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
the-blue-alliance/the-blue-alliance
Mar 2012 - Sep 2013
A webapp for accessing information about the FIRST Robotics Competition.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:11 commits, 6 comments in 1 year 6 months
Contributions summary:Chris primarily focused on back-end development tasks, including modifying URL patterns for video access and fixing errors in the team badge generation script. Their work involved changing file paths and updating code to use `.net` instead of `.com` URLs. They also implemented a system for user permissions and modified event details display logic.
first-robotics-competitionreactroboticsfirst-frcfirst-robotics
chrismarra/chrismarra.github.io
Jun 2015 - Jul 2020
Contributions:5 pushes in 5 years 2 months
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