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 (39)
ios10
swift10
draw9
animation9
objective-c9
animated9
macos9
cpp8
swift-framework8
swiftui8
cocoapods8
xcode8
aseprite8
linux8
draggable8
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
canalesb93/MantleModal
Nov 2015 - Sep 2016
A draggable modal for iOS Applications.
Contributions:2 releases, 33 commits, 1 PR in 10 months
modaliosdraggable
canalesb93/LoLStats
Jan 2015 - Jan 2015
Contributions:31 commits, 10 pushes in 2 days
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