Igor Pozgaj
Production Engineer at Meta
Redwood City, California, United States
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Top SchoolIgor Pozgaj is a Production Engineer with over 14 years at Meta and more than 20 years in industry experience building and operating very large-scale distributed systems. He has bootstrapped and led core infrastructure teams powering Facebook, Messenger, Instagram and WhatsApp—most recently as tech lead for critical MySQL infrastructure that supports the social graph. His expertise spans distributed systems, high availability, performance tuning, automation and real-time reliability work across hundreds of thousands of machines serving billions of users. Igor was a founding member on projects from remote block storage to ZippyDB, scaling services from thousands to hundreds of thousands of nodes and driving operational efficiency for caching and routing stacks. Based in Redwood City, he combines hands-on technical leadership with a track record of turning experimental systems into production-critical infrastructure. His early experience running mission-critical bank systems in Croatia gives him an uncommon blend of enterprise reliability discipline and hyperscale engineering instincts.
13 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Engineering - MEng Computer Engineering, Master of Engineering - MEng Computer Engineering at University of Zagreb / Sveučilište u Zagrebu
Croatian, English, Spanish
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (15)
lgbt7
lookup-table7
arm6
embedded6
monitoring6
disk6
linux6
bash6
assembly6
io6
filter6
gnu6
artemis5
infrastructure4
infrastructure-management4
Github contributions (5)
ipozgaj/dotfiles
Jun 2012 - Sep 2022
Contributions:243 commits, 184 pushes in 10 years 5 months
ipozgaj/makefiles
Aug 2016 - Dec 2019
Contributions:1 push, 1 branch in 3 years 4 months
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