Jigar Gosalia
Senior Staff Software Engineer at Instagram
San Jose, California, United States
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Top SchoolJigar Gosalia is a Senior Staff Software Engineer in the Bay Area with 15+ years of experience designing and operating large-scale, low-latency systems across advertising, payments, and messaging platforms. He has architected and shipped core services at Instagram Ads, WhatsApp Cloud API, Meta Payments, and PayPal—working across monoliths, orchestration platforms, and microservices to solve complex reliability, compliance, and risk challenges. Known for mentoring teams and driving cross-functional delivery, he blends hands-on engineering with product-minded system design and a focus on scalability. Jigar’s background spans fintech, ads, and messaging at hyperscale, and he recently contributed to GenAI capabilities for creative and ad formats at Instagram. He combines a Master’s in Computer Science with deep experience in identity, payments, and risk systems, often surfacing subtle edge cases in compliance and data flows that others miss. Based in San Jose, he thrives in agile environments where rapid iteration meets rigorous production standards.
11 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Master's Degree Computer Science, Master's Degree Computer Science at International Technological University (ITU)Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.) Information Technology, Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.) Information Technology at University of Mumbai
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Github Skills (11)
push-notifications9
java9
json6
activity-lifecycle6
oracle6
android-notifications6
sql6
android6
python6
colors6
design-patterns2
Github contributions (5)
gosaliajigar/CSC519
May 2017 - Nov 2017
Contributions:25 commits, 1 branch in 6 months
gosaliajigar/DesignPatterns
Dec 2015 - Jun 2020
Contributions:34 pushes in 4 years 7 months
javadesign-patternspatterns
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