Garett Roberts
Software Engineer at Meta
Seattle, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolGarett Roberts is a software engineer with 11 years of experience building reliable, scalable systems from research clusters to consumer products, currently driving architecture and delivery at Meta on Messenger. He has improved high-throughput media pipelines—raising success rates from 98% to 99.99% and halving latency at 600k requests per minute—and helped move attachment handling toward end-to-end encrypted backups. Comfortable across the full stack, Garett has modernized legacy domains, introduced testing and containerization practices, and optimized distributed messaging with RabbitMQ. He pairs hands-on implementation with a knack for documentation, observability, and cross-team communication, mentoring teammates to self-sufficiency. Based in Seattle, he blends a disciplined engineering approach informed by early research on supercomputing performance with a personal appetite for outdoor challenges and event orchestration that shapes how he coordinates teams.
11 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science at University of OregonHighschool Diploma, Highschool Diploma at Naches Valley High School
English, Chinese, German
Stackoverflow
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3kreached
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Github Skills (7)
parallel-processing6
unit-testing6
mstest6
visual-studio6
javascript5
css5
web-development4
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
garetroy/TeamBuilder2.0
Apr 2017 - Jun 2017
Contributions:46 commits, 17 pushes, 1 branch in 2 months
garetroy/AlgorithmPractice
Mar 2017 - Jan 2018
Contributions:80 pushes, 1 branch in 9 months
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