Tyler Truong
Software Engineering Manager at Instagram
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolTyler Truong is a software engineering manager with 8+ years of full-stack experience, currently leading engineering at Instagram and Facebook out of New York. He designs and ships high-throughput, low-latency systems—examples include an Airbnb-like service where he optimized database insertions of 50M+ records and cut request latency from 12s to 200ms at 100 QPS. Comfortable across React/Redux front-ends and Node/Express back-ends, he pairs practical data modeling with production-grade tooling such as Docker, Redis, ElasticSearch and AWS. Tyler has hands-on experience building real-time pipelines that ingest 1000+ messages/sec and shape outputs at scale, reflecting a strong operational mindset. A UC Berkeley applied mathematics graduate, he blends quantitative rigor with pragmatic engineering and maintains a public portfolio on GitHub showcasing his projects.
8 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Applied Mathematics, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Applied Mathematics at University of California, Berkeley
English, Spanish, Vietnamese
Github Skills (6)
react5
react-native5
javascript5
flowtype4
bundler4
typescript3
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
model-airbnb/Recommendation
Oct 2017 - Mar 2018
Contributions:69 commits, 45 PRs, 47 pushes in 5 months
recommendation
tylertruong/TradeLeague
Sep 2017 - Oct 2017
Contributions:42 pushes, 1 branch in 11 days
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