Larry Olson
Technical Program Manager at Meta
Bellevue, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolLarry Olson is a seasoned Technical Program Manager with 17 years of experience orchestrating developer platforms and infrastructure at Microsoft and Meta. He has led cross-functional teams delivering developer tools, SDKs, and backend infrastructure used by consumer giants and enterprise customers alike, and now focuses on reliability for Meta’s core middleware. Larry blends deep technical chops—earlier hands-on work includes C/C++ and C# ports, gamepad input parsers, and Node.js/Express full-stack contributions—with high-velocity program leadership across efficiency, capacity, storage, and database systems. He has managed and mentored TPM teams, translating complex engineering tradeoffs into shipped solutions and improved developer experiences. An active contributor to educational and tooling repos (e.g., HowToNode and Clang tutorials), he brings a practical engineer’s mindset to program strategy. Based in Bellevue, WA, he’s comfortable navigating both low-level code and large-scale operational programs to drive measurable reliability and developer productivity.
17 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science Computer Science, Bachelor of Science Computer Science at Georgia Institute of Technology
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Github Skills (26)
javascript10
c-language10
expressjs10
back-end-development10
llvm10
mongodb-database10
front-end-development10
nodejs10
web-development10
clangd10
cprogramming-language10
mongodb10
clang10
astm9
j9
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
loarabia/Clang-tutorial
Nov 2010 - Dec 2019
A collection of code samples showing usage of clang and llvm as a library
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:126 commits, 2 PRs, 4 pushes in 9 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Larry primarily worked on expanding the functionality of the `clang-tutorial` repository. They focused on adding code samples demonstrating the use of clang and llvm as a library. Contributions include adding new tutorials and example code, specifically, introducing code related to the preprocessor, ASTContext and Sema. These tutorials provide useful examples to help developers learn and understand how to use these libraries.
compilerscppclangllvm
creationix/howtonode.org
Jul 2011 - Jul 2011
This repo contains the actual articles for HowToNode.org
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:38 commits in 5 days
Contributions summary:Larry primarily contributed to the development of a blog application using Node.js and Express.js, including creating and updating articles, templates, and styling. They implemented features for creating and displaying blog posts and comments. The user also refactored the application to use Jade templates, updated the style with Stylus, and integrated a MongoDB database for persistent storage.
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