Jacob Rodal
Senior Software Engineer at Meta
Seattle, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolJacob Rodal is a senior software engineer at Meta in Seattle with eight years of experience optimizing developer productivity, AI tooling, and systems infrastructure. He has led major initiatives across private ads measurement, Windows developer experience, and firmware tooling—owning top-contributor status on Meta’s open-source private computation platform and driving Buck2 migration that eliminated over 500M weekly build actions. His work has produced measurable developer-impact wins (e.g., 48% faster config-management builds, 24% better battery life, 35+ minutes shaved from VR build times) and he builds telemetry and experimentation platforms to prove them statistically. More recently he enabled enterprise-scale AI coding assistants for Linux/Windows and AOSP firmware teams, cutting development time by 12% and uncovering 3x improvements in assistant success through bespoke benchmarking. Jacob blends systems-level engineering with rigorous measurement and cross-org leadership, repeatedly turning infrastructure projects into measurable productivity gains.
8 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Valedictorian (graduated rank 1/390), Valedictorian (graduated rank 1/390) at Woodgrove High SchoolBachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science (BS) and Statistics (BA), Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science (BS) and Statistics (BA) at University of Virginia
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (67)
vscode10
ide10
multi-party-computation10
visual-odometry9
python9
gpu9
deep-learning9
vim9
lua9
machine-learning9
neovim9
numpy8
tensor8
neural-network8
nvim8
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
jrodal98/discord_dicebot
May 2023 - May 2025
Contributions:4 PRs, 9 pushes, 6 branches in 1 year 11 months
facebookresearch/fbpcs
Aug 2021 - Dec 2022
FBPCS (Facebook Private Computation Solutions) leverages secure multi-party computation (MPC) to output aggregated data without making unencrypted, readable data available to the other party or any third parties. Facebook provides impression & opportunity data, and the advertiser provides conversion / outcome data.
Contributions:3 releases, 260 commits, 239 PRs in 1 year 4 months
multi-party-computation
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