Joseph Rios is a Senior Software Engineering Manager based in Seattle with over 8 years of experience leading engineering teams at Meta and Facebook, and a decade-plus background building products at game and web companies like King, Z2, and Indeed. He advances high-impact consumer and social systems from hands-on engineering to organizational leadership, consistently moving between individual contributor and manager roles across rapid-growth and large-scale environments. Joseph holds a CS bachelor’s from UT Austin and a master’s from DigiPen, reflecting a blend of academic rigor and industry practice in game and systems development. Known for elevating team delivery and mentoring engineers, he has a track record of stepping into increasingly senior management roles within the same organization, signaling strong internal influence and operational trust. Based in Seattle, he brings deep domain experience in scalable product engineering and a pragmatic approach that balances technical depth with people-first leadership.
8 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree Computer Science, Bachelor’s Degree Computer Science at The University of Texas at Austin
Master’s Degree Computer Science, Master’s Degree Computer Science at DigiPen Institute of Technology
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