Douglas Teixeira
Software Engineer at Meta
United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolDouglas Teixeira is a Software Engineer with 13 years of experience, currently at Meta where he drives availability and efficiency for tier-1 distributed systems serving tens of millions of QPS. He holds a PhD in Computer Science (UFMG / École Polytechnique) and has published in ACM SIGSPATIAL, TSAS, and EPJ Data Science, bringing a research-led approach to production engineering. His work has delivered large performance wins—40% p99 latency reduction on a distributed priority queue, up to 40% CPU and 18% memory savings, and initiatives that saved over $13M in infrastructure costs—alongside building overload protection and load-testing frameworks. Past roles include research and engineering at Microsoft, Inria, and Facebook, blending large-scale data pipeline and static-analysis experience with mentoring and cross-team leadership. Notably, he translates theoretical insights about data sparsity and predictability into practical, scalable system optimizations.
12 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science at Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais
English, Portuguese
Github Skills (5)
angularjs2
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Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
danielbm/resumos
Feb 2014 - Mar 2014
Contributions:63 commits in 1 month
dougct/predictability
Aug 2021 - Dec 2021
Contributions:23 commits, 22 pushes, 1 comment in 4 months
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