Summary
Michael Man is a Staff Software Engineer at Meta specializing in distributed systems for foundational LLM training, with 11 years of engineering experience and a B.S.E. in Computer Science from Princeton. He progressed quickly through software and senior engineering roles at Meta since 2021, combining low-latency systems design with large-scale ML infrastructure work in New York. His background includes internships at Jane Street, Airbnb, and early product engineering at Zap, giving him a blend of finance-grade rigor and consumer-scale production experience. Known for building reliable, scalable back-end systems, he brings practical experience shipping infrastructure that supports massive model training workloads. A detail that sets him apart is his sustained focus on the intersection of distributed systems and ML foundations rather than application-level features.
11 years of coding experience