Summary
Michael Menz is a software engineer with 11 years of experience building large-scale recommendation and search systems, most recently serving as Senior Staff Software Engineer at Meta where he was the first relevance engineer for Threads and formerly tech lead for Instagram Feed Recommendations. He specializes in feed retrieval, ranking, search, communities, and conversations, and has a proven track record of developing foundational ML platform components that power high-traffic social products. Based in New York and trained in mathematics at Yale, he blends rigorous analytical thinking with product-focused engineering to ship scalable, low-latency systems. Now at Blue Rose Research, he brings deep expertise in relevance and recommender infrastructure to new problems, often tackling the upstream retrieval layer that many teams overlook.
11 years of coding experience
Bachelor's degree, Mathematics, Bachelor's degree, Mathematics at Yale University