Diego Sánchez
Software Engineer at WhatsApp
London, England, Spain
Summary
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Top SchoolDiego Sánchez is a software engineer with 11 years of experience building high-performance mobile and systems software, currently working at WhatsApp and Meta out of London. He started in HPC and FPGA-accelerated computing—holding a master's in embedded systems—which informs his strong low-level and performance-oriented approach to engineering. Diego moved into iOS leadership at Badoo before advancing to large-scale product teams, blending hands-on development with team mentorship. He contributes to open-source image processing tooling, notably improving robustness in Facebook's Spectrum library by addressing pixel-spec edge cases and adding platform decoders. Comfortable across embedded, mobile, and cloud-backed services, he excels at turning complex algorithmic problems into production-ready solutions. Fluent in both research-driven optimization and product delivery, he brings a pragmatic rigor often rooted in his FPGA and mathematics background.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Embedded systems, FPGAs, Master's degree, Embedded systems, FPGAs at Universidad Autónoma de Madrid
English, Spanish
Github Skills (12)
imageformats10
transcoding10
image-file10
android10
image-processing10
cprogramming-language9
c-language9
ios9
computer-engineering8
java7
webp7
javas7
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
facebookincubator/spectrum
May 2019 - Jun 2020
A client-side image transcoding library.
Role in this project:
Software Engineer (Image Processing Focus)
Software Engineer (Image Processing Focus)Contributions:3 releases, 10 commits, 5 PRs in 1 year
Contributions summary:Diego contributed to the `facebookincubator/spectrum` repository, which is a client-side image transcoding library. Their work focused on improving the library's robustness and functionality by addressing edge cases in image processing. The user implemented changes that prevent incorrect rules being applied for different pixel specifications. Moreover, the user added the platform plugin to decode image files using the android platform image decoders. Finally, the user fixed a build issue with Cocoapods.
imageclient-sideandroidtranscodingimage-processing
badoo/BMASliders
Mar 2015 - Mar 2016
Configurable simple and range sliders
Contributions:1 release, 8 commits, 5 PRs in 1 year
slidersrangesliderconfigurable
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