“I grew up in Salvador, capital of the Brazilian state of Bahia. My interest in programming started as a teenager using Linux and building websites. That was the beginning of a long history in open source as a core contributor in large projects such as GNOME and Firefox later on. I graduated in computer science and got a Master's degree in communication and culture from the Federal University of Bahia. After working at Nokia, litl, and Mozilla, I joined Facebook in 2015. I am currently an engineering manager on the native UI frameworks team in London. We work on frameworks for building efficient UIs at scale on Android and iOS including ComponentKit, Litho, and Yoga. I love working at Facebook because they empower you to set your own career path. For instance, our bootcamp program is all about allowing you to explore and choose your first team at Facebook. There's also a lot of freedom to explore new ideas and change teams from time to time. Facebook has an impact-driven engineering culture. You're constantly challenged to perform at your very best. The scale of our mobile products means that we're often tackling some of the most complex challenges in mobile development - something you'll very rarely find in other companies.”

“I'm originally from Mexico City. In high school, I really liked math and science and learned about the science olympiads, school competitions for math, physics, biology, programming, and more. At the time, I did it more for the prizes and trips. My brother had a bunch of programming books at home since he was participating in these competitions, so I grabbed a book and learned how to program in C. I liked it so much, I decided to continue on this path. I majored in computer engineering from the University of Washington in Seattle, and then got my PhD in computer vision at MIT. I joined Facebook in 2011 and worked on different parts of our Android stack. I currently manage several teams working across Android, iOS, web and backend, and got the opportunity to become a manager two and a half years after joining. Our company focuses on maximizing people's strengths, not weaknesses. It's one of the things I love about working here. I also love that we have the ability to pick teams. As an engineer at Facebook, you have so many choices since we are growing a lot as a company. We iterate fast, so as engineers, we have to build empathy with people's experiences and be comfortable with analyzing data to validate hypotheses. At Facebook, you're never maintaining code, but always looking for the most impactful thing to work on and the most interesting problem to solve. And that's a culture we want to maintain.”

“I spent the first 24 years of my life in Bucharest, Romania, a small country in Eastern Europe. I first got into programming when I was about 9 years old, when my older brother started teaching me Pascal. But it really stuck with me in my teenage years, teaching myself everything from building interactive websites to reverse engineering undocumented TCP protocols. After getting a BSc in Computer Science at the University of Bucharest, working at a couple of startups and ultimately Adobe, I joined Facebook in 2014. Initially I worked on React Native for Android for about two years and, since around November 2016, I've been on the Images Infrastructure team (think Fresco). I love working at Facebook because you get to collaborate with really smart people on deep technical challenges, some of which simply don't exist elsewhere. This means there are always opportunities to grow in whichever direction you want, and you are encouraged to find your own way and make the most out of your time here.”