Ricardo Canales
Staff Software Engineer at Meta
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRicardo Canales is a Staff Software Engineer based in Seattle with 12 years of experience building and shipping large-scale messaging products across the Meta family of apps. A Monterrey Institute of Technology alum, he joined Meta after college and progressed from software engineer to senior and now staff roles, driving complex projects and technical direction for messaging systems. Early in his career he co-founded Rucoy Online, a multiplayer game with over 5 million downloads, showing a blend of product instincts and hands-on engineering. Ricardo’s background includes internships at Microsoft and Facebook where he focused on telemetry, localization analytics, and mobile features—skills he leverages to improve observability and performance at scale. He’s accustomed to fast-paced, cross-functional work informed by hackathon-driven collaboration and a habit of learning new languages and frameworks through practical projects. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic technical leader who combines deep implementation experience with an eye for product impact.
12 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree Computer Science, Bachelor’s Degree Computer Science at Tecnológico de Monterrey
English, Spanish
Github Skills (28)
ios-application10
animation9
ios9
linux9
swift9
swift-framework8
cocoapods8
draggable8
draw8
gif7
cpp7
spritesheet6
sprite6
ios-library6
golang5
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
canalesb93/breadbox
Apr 2026 - Jun 2026
[pre-release] Self-hosted financial data aggregation for households
Contributions:199 PRs, 640 pushes, 805 branches in 2 months
golangmcppersonal-financeagentic-workflow
canalesb93/canalesb93.github.io
Oct 2015 - Feb 2026
Contributions:15 pushes in 10 years 6 months
jekylljekyll-thememinimal-design
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