Summary
Elisa L is a seasoned software engineer with 14 years of experience building consumer-facing products and infrastructure at Meta and Instagram, now working on Threads and previously on Reality Labs and core Instagram experiences like Discovery, Shopping, Stories, and Messaging. She brings deep expertise in mobile client infrastructure, messaging systems, performance and reliability engineering, and design systems, having shipped features used by hundreds of millions of people. Her career began with hands-on roles in mobile and web engineering at startups and internships, giving her a strong product-first engineering perspective. Based in New York with a University of Waterloo software engineering background, she blends large-scale system thinking with pragmatic shipping velocity. Notably, she has shifted between consumer social apps and cutting-edge AR wearable efforts, demonstrating versatility across fast-growing and research-driven projects. Colleagues rely on her to bridge product goals and solid engineering execution in high-impact, rapidly evolving environments.
14 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Software Engineering, Bachelor of Software Engineering at University of Waterloo
Chinese, English