Ken Garber
Software Engineer at Meta
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Senior🎓
Top SchoolKen Garber is a pragmatic software engineer with 11 years of experience building large-scale backend systems, currently focused on control-plane infrastructure and distributed databases. After growing Facebook Reels from under 1M to 500M+ users, he has deep experience in high-availability services, streaming APIs, and performance/reliability tooling. He started as an intern building distributed queue tooling and has since shipped network management, realtime messaging, and Spark-based data pipelines that cut processing time by 95% on terabyte-scale datasets. Based in San Francisco, Ken balances production-grade engineering at Meta and Nash with hobby projects like a YAML-to-HTML compiler for responsive mobile sites—reflecting a persistent interest in developer-facing tools and lightweight compilers.
11 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Newton South High SchoolBachelor's degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science at Boston University
English, Spanish, Russian
Github Skills (47)
5g10
modular10
python10
lte10
4g10
networking10
bazel10
golang10
network-automation10
network10
vagrant10
sonic9
mobile9
magma9
fact8
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
KenG98/kgarber-onepage
Apr 2018 - Nov 2024
Contributions:5 PRs, 7 pushes, 4 branches in 6 years 8 months
KenG98/orbits
Apr 2015 - Jan 2019
A simulation of gravity using three.js.
Contributions:1 PR, 7 pushes, 3 branches in 3 years 9 months
gravityplanetwebgljavascriptastrodynamics
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