Matej Briskar
Software Engineer at Meta
Switzerland
Summary
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Top SchoolMatej Briskar is a software engineer with 13 years of experience building secure, large-scale infrastructure and product features at Meta and LinkedIn, now focused on simplifying AR/VR content at Meta. He has led infrastructure efforts to limit data exposure and to curb misinformation across Facebook and Instagram, and previously implemented company-wide authorization at LinkedIn. Comfortable across backend systems, privacy, and security, Matej combines deep Java and distributed-systems experience from Red Hat and large tech platforms with hands-on leadership in production environments. He also brings an academic bent—teaching advanced Java to master’s students—and a long-standing interest in psychology that informs how he thinks about user impact and behavior. Based in Switzerland, he pairs practical engineering with a curiosity for how software shapes society and the future. An avid reader (Goodreads profile), he balances rigorous technical work with continuous learning and communication.
13 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Master's Degree, Faculty of Informatics, Master's Degree, Faculty of Informatics at Masaryk University BrnoMath class, Math class at Gymnázium Poštová
English, German, Slovak
Stackoverflow
609reputation
62kreached
11answers
28questions
Github Skills (88)
forge10
heroku10
wkhtmltopdf10
javaee10
java10
dokku10
buildpack10
docker10
migration10
xml10
jboss9
sql9
ipmi9
minecraft9
docker-container9
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
mbriskar/windup
Jan 2015 - Jan 2016
Contributions:1 PR, 271 pushes, 63 branches in 1 year 1 month
windup
mbriskar/dokku-wkhtmltopdf
Nov 2015 - Mar 2020
Installs the wkhtmltopdf in the dokku-managed docker container
Contributions:6 commits, 3 PRs, 6 pushes in 4 years 4 months
dokkuwkhtmltopdfdockerdocker-container
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