Saquib Hafiz
Engineering Manager at Instagram
Jersey City, New Jersey, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSaquib Hafiz is an engineering manager with 13 years of experience building high-performance mobile and backend systems, currently leading teams at Instagram from Jersey City. He rose through senior software engineering roles to management after a career focused on Android engineering, platform reliability, and data-driven feature improvements across companies like TextNow, Kik, Google, Yelp, and A9. Saquib blends hands-on technical depth (C++, Android, Python/Django, large-scale data pipelines) with product sensibility—having built tooling to measure app metrics, refactored core components for low-memory/high-latency environments, and shipped customer-facing dashboards. Known for translating complex AI and ML-adjacent concepts into production-ready services, he favors pragmatic, analytics-driven decisions and cross-functional collaboration. He holds a BCS in Computer Science from the University of Waterloo and brings a track record of improving call quality, visual search tooling, and scalable consumer features that quietly boost user experience.
13 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
BCS Computer Science, BCS Computer Science at University of Waterloo
Github Skills (3)
mp37
player7
android5
Github contributions (5)
saquibhafiz/MP3Player
Oct 2012 - Dec 2015
Contributions:3 commits, 2 PRs, 2 pushes in 3 years 2 months
mp3androidmp3-playermusic-playerplayer
saquibhafiz/Solving-2048
Jul 2016 - Aug 2020
Contributions:3 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 2 months
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