Mehrdad Reshadi
Senior Staff Software Engineer at Meta
Sunnyvale, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMehrdad Reshadi is a Senior Staff Software Engineer in Sunnyvale with 20+ years of experience building high-performance web and systems software, currently leading front-end observability and the AutoLogging project at Meta. He blends deep research pedigree—27 peer-reviewed publications and a PhD-level background in compilers and VMs—with hands-on engineering of large distributed systems, compiler toolchains, and runtime innovations. His career includes architecting novel virtualization and edge optimization platforms at Instart and leading a parallel JavaScript JIT at Qualcomm Research (now open-sourced as mcjs). A pragmatic polyglot (TypeScript/JavaScript/C#/C++), he focuses on performance, scalability, and reliability while mentoring teams and moving ideas from research into production. He also contributes to notable open-source work such as improving google/closure-compiler-js testability and feature handling, reflecting an emphasis on robust tooling and automation. Colleagues describe him as a technical leader who pairs deep systems insight with a knack for practical, production-ready solutions.
11 years of coding experience
23 years of employment as a software developer
BSc Computer Engineering, BSc Computer Engineering at Sharif University of TechnologyMSc Computer Engineering, MSc Computer Engineering at University of TehranUniversity of California, Irvine
Github Skills (9)
closure10
google-closure-compiler10
javascript10
testing10
cli9
command-line9
command-line-interface9
nodejs8
npm7
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
google/closure-compiler-js
Jan 2018 - Jan 2018
Package for the JS version of closure-compiler for use via NPM
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Test Automation Engineer
Back-end Developer & Test Automation EngineerContributions:6 commits, 1 PR, 8 comments in 1 day
Contributions summary:Mehrdad primarily focused on enhancing the functionality and testability of the closure-compiler-js project. They implemented support for handling the `--defines` argument from the command line, allowing for more flexible configuration. The user added multiple tests to verify the correct parsing and processing of different define values (strings, booleans, and numbers) and corrected some tests based on the expected output. Furthermore, the user refactored the code by renaming `fixupDefines` to `parseDefines` and making the `cmd.js` module more testable.
compilerjsnpm
reshadi/hyperion
Jan 2023 - Feb 2026
This project enabled intercepting and virtualizing the browser API
Contributions:197 pushes, 144 branches in 3 years 1 month
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