Denny Rong is an engineering manager based in New York with 13 years of experience building and scaling consumer-facing systems across major tech platforms. Currently leading engineering at Meta after a Staff Software Engineer role at Instagram, he blends hands-on software craftsmanship with team leadership to deliver products that make people's lives easier. His background includes early engineering and research roles at Yahoo and IBM Watson Media, and an MS in Electrical Engineering from Columbia with a 3.83 GPA, reflecting strong technical foundations. Known for pragmatic problem-solving, he moves fluidly between product-driven software delivery and mentoring engineers to raise team impact. A quieter strength is his research experience, which helps him bridge experimental ideas and production-grade systems.
13 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (MS), Electrical Engineering, GPA:3.83/4.0, Master of Science (MS), Electrical Engineering, GPA:3.83/4.0 at Columbia University in the City of New York
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