Yacine Filali
Engineering Manager, Enterprise Products at Meta
San Jose, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolYacine Filali is an experienced engineering manager and entrepreneur based in San Jose with over two decades in software and 11 years in senior leadership roles, currently leading Enterprise Products at Meta. He blends hands-on engineering—especially Python, GraphQL, and React—with strategic product and organizational leadership developed as VP/Director at startups and mid-size firms. Yacine has a track record of modernizing codebases and shipping compatibility fixes, exemplified by contributions to the widely used mailgun/talon Python library to ensure Python 3 support and improve signature extraction. He is comfortable scaling teams and systems across acquisitions and fast pivots, having led engineering through multiple company transitions. With a business degree from San Francisco State and technical roots from Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1, he pairs technical depth with business-minded execution. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic problem-solver who stays close to code while driving long-term platform strategy.
11 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Business, Bachelor of Business at San Francisco State UniversityDUT, DUT at Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1
English, French, Arabic, Spanish
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Github Skills (16)
encode10
lib10
python10
encoding10
testing9
regex9
nsstring9
graphql6
objective-c6
graphene-python6
graphql-mutation6
php6
javascript6
sqlalchemy6
graphql-subscriptions6
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
mailgun/talon
May 2017 - May 2017
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:6 commits, 1 PR, 2 comments in 1 day
Contributions summary:Yacine primarily focused on updating the `talon` library for Python 3 compatibility. Their contributions included modifying core files such as `utils.py`, and making necessary encoding fixes. They addressed backward compatibility issues with Python 2.7 and updated test suites. Additionally, the user worked on signature extraction improvements, resolving an issue with handling read-only classifier data.
devisechain/Devise
Jun 2018 - Oct 2018
Devise: An Alternative Exchange Containing Assets Engineered To Help Fund Managers Hunt Alpha
Contributions:14 commits, 17 PRs, 11 pushes in 3 months
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