Yunus Sasmaz
Director Of Engineering at Meta
San Jose, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolYunus Sasmaz is a Director of Engineering based in San Jose with 12 years of experience building large-scale consumer platforms and developer-facing tools. At Meta he leads the Cross-Meta Experiences organization, shaping products and platforms that aim to grow and engage a 3B+ user base, while his earlier hands-on work at Square produced a widely used Android Register app and an open-source i18n framework (square/shuttle). He blends deep backend engineering—improving translation workflows, import efficiency, and error handling—with strategic leadership that scales teams and systems. Trained at MIT with both engineering and management backgrounds, he moves comfortably between research, product execution, and operational rigor. Colleagues describe him as a problem-solver who prefers pragmatic, backend-first solutions that unlock global reach and measurable impact.
12 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Engineering Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Master of Engineering Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyHigh School Math/Science, High School Math/Science at TEV Inanc Turkes Private High School for Gifted ChildrenBachelor's Degree Management Science, Bachelor's Degree Management Science at MIT Sloan School of Management
English, Turkish
Github Skills (11)
rails10
postgresql10
ruby-on-rails10
api-design9
api9
apim9
elasticsearchquery8
elasticsearch8
amazon-elasticsearch8
elasticsearch-api8
aws-elasticsearch8
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
square/shuttle
Mar 2014 - Apr 2016
String extraction, translation and export tools for the 21st century. "Moving strings around so you don't have to"
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:460 commits, 14 PRs, 11 pushes in 2 years
Contributions summary:Yunus primarily contributed to adding and improving functionality related to issues and translations. This included implementing features for automatically copying translations between locales, generating translation manifests, and integrating email notifications for import errors. They also focused on improving the efficiency and structure of the import process, indicating a focus on backend systems.
nlpextractionstring-extractionexportstring
dina/square_shift
Apr 2014 - Apr 2014
Contributions:51 commits in 4 days
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