Gilad Goldfarb
Hardware Engineering Manager at Facebook
Menlo Park, California, United States
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Top SchoolGilad Goldfarb is a hardware engineering manager and optical scientist with a PhD in Optical Sciences and an MBA in Finance and Entrepreneurship, currently leading Facebook’s Hardware Insights team from Menlo Park. Over eight years at Facebook and prior roles at Infinera and Motorola, he has bridged optical R&D, DSP algorithm development, and fleet-wide hardware analytics to deliver production diagnostics, NPI validation, and reliability-driven design insights. A serial founder and developer (DataBark, MindSet.io), he brings product-minded engineering, event-driven streaming analytics, and full-stack tooling experience to hardware lifecycle problems. He combines deep quantitative skills—Monte Carlo, stochastic processes, regression—with hands-on programming (MATLAB, Python/Pandas, R, C, SQL, Neo4j) to turn telemetry into actionable models. Notably, he helped found open optical tooling efforts (TIP/OOPT/GNPY) used for route planning, highlighting a habit of contributing practical open-source infrastructure alongside corporate engineering.
8 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Business Administration (M.B.A.), Entrepreneurship, Finance, Master of Business Administration (M.B.A.), Entrepreneurship, Finance at Santa Clara University - Leavey School of BusinessBachelor's Degree, Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Bachelor's Degree, Electrical and Electronics Engineering at Ben-Gurion University of the NegevDoctor of Philosophy (PhD), Optical Sciences and Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Optical Sciences and Engineering at University of Central Florida
Spanish, Hebrew
Github Skills (21)
route-optimization10
gaussian10
noise10
transport9
connectivity9
twine9
planning9
python8
argparse8
devkit8
console7
controlling7
command-line-parser7
command-line-interface7
cli7
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
giladg-FB/gnpy
Nov 2017 - Dec 2017
Contributions:3 pushes, 3 branches in 5 days
noisegaussiansimulationoptical
Telecominfraproject/Physical_Simulation_Environment
Jun 2017 - Oct 2017
Contributions:6 pushes in 3 months
simulationphysicalsimulation-environmentphysical-simulationworking-group
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