Raffi Hovagimian
Software Engineer at Meta
Los Angeles, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRaffi Hovagimian is a software engineer with nine years of experience building cloud-native enterprise applications and platformized UIs, currently shaping News curation tooling at Meta using React, Relay and GraphQL. He brings deep expertise in Salesforce platform development—Apex, Lightning, VisualForce—and has led principal engineering efforts for Blockchain Builder, Financial Services Cloud, and Lightning Scheduler, marrying front-end polish with scalable backend services. Comfortable across Java, Java Spring, Express.js and modern JS frameworks, Raffi has a track record of shipping measurable product impact (e.g., increased session length, scroll depth, and engagement on News surfaces). He combines an engineer’s attention to performance and data models with hands-on leadership—mentoring teams, driving API and data design, and operationalizing managed packages. Based in Los Angeles, he pairs enterprise-grade rigor from Salesforce and Boeing with startup-style product focus at Meta, making him effective at turning complex domain requirements into visible, auditable user experiences.
9 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree Computer Science, Bachelor’s Degree Computer Science at Drexel University
English, Armenian
Github Skills (7)
react-relay7
react5
relay-modern5
apollo4
graphql4
relay4
graphql-relay2
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
rhovagimian/tumo
Jul 2020 - Jul 2021
Introduction to GraphQL, Relay, React Workshop
Contributions:46 PRs, 62 pushes in 1 year
reactrelayworkshoprelay-modernreact-relay
rhovagimian/stellar-smart-contracts
Apr 2018 - Sep 2018
Contributions:10 commits, 2 pushes, 2 branches in 4 months
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