Franklin Rice
Senior Software Engineer at Meta
San Francisco Bay Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolFranklin Rice is a Senior Software Engineer with 11 years of experience building integrity, safety, and investigative systems across Meta, Facebook, and security-focused startups. He specializes in leading cross-functional engineering teams to tackle nuanced safety challenges in emerging platforms—most recently defining model safety at Meta’s Superintelligence Labs and prior to that shaping VR/AR trust systems and youth safety. His background spans backend systems, ML-driven detection, research-informed tooling, and products for counter-terrorism and transnational investigations, giving him a rare blend of technical depth and domain sensitivity. Based in the San Francisco Bay Area, he pairs hands-on engineering with policy and product collaboration to translate complex regulatory and ethical constraints into practical, auditable solutions. An early maker and founder, he also brings entrepreneurial experience shipping consumer apps and research-grade robotics work from Berkeley to production.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Bachelor’s Degree Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at University of California, BerkeleyBusiness for Artists Scientists and Engineers summer program, Business for Artists Scientists and Engineers summer program at University of California, Berkeley, Haas School of BusinessCarlmont High SchoolEntrepreneurship/Entrepreneurial Studies, Entrepreneurship/Entrepreneurial Studies at European Innovation Adacemy @ University of Sophia Antipolis, Nice, France
English, Spanish
Github Skills (4)
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Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
archerimpact/Meta
Jan 2018 - Oct 2018
Contributions:106 commits, 9 pushes, 1 comment in 8 months
franklinrice/cs194-capsule-gan
Mar 2018 - May 2018
Contributions:22 commits, 13 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
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