Summary
Christian Lilley is a software engineering manager and founder with 12 years of experience specializing in Android performance, reliability, and enterprise app development. Currently leading a small expert team at Instagram/Meta, he focuses on preventing performance regressions across iOS and Android at scale. He brings a hands-on engineering background from founding Oak City Games, where he shipped cross-platform games and utility apps using Unity, Firebase, GCP, and AWS. Comfortable at the intersection of product and platform, he pairs low-level performance tuning with pragmatic delivery processes. Based in New York, he combines an electrical engineering foundation from NC State with operator instincts from running a small indie studio. Notably, he continues to ship personal projects publicly, demonstrating sustained curiosity and full-stack fluency beyond his managerial role.
12 years of coding experience
Bachelor of Science (BS), Electrical Enginnering, Bachelor of Science (BS), Electrical Enginnering at North Carolina State University