# Andy Sturzu

> Member of Non-Technical Staff

Location: New York, New York, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/andysturzu

product engineer or something

## Work Experience
### Software Engineer @ Meta
Jan 2023 – Present | New York, New York, United States
AI on VR

### Staff Software Engineer @ Instagram
Jan 2020 – Jan 2023
Built things to help creators and businesses succeed

### Software Engineer @ Facebook
Jan 2019 – Jan 2020
Founding backend engineer on the Regulated Ads team, helped grow the team to 3x engineers

Pioneered the first of its kind, cross-company framework that aims to eliminate ads targeting discrimination and scaled it to handle diverse global advertising policies including political ads

Built backend enforcement systems that handle billions of dollars worth of ad revenue and serve trillions of impressions a year

Worked with lots of lawyers

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/facebook-agrees-to-dismantle-targeted-advertising-system-for-job-housing-and-loan-ads-after-discrimination-complaints/2019/03/19/7dc9b5fa-4983-11e9-b79a-961983b7e0cd_story.html

### Software Engineer @ Facebook
Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | San Francisco Bay Area
Did some fun NLP & Taxonomy work on the Core Growth team

### Department Mentor @ The University of Texas at Austin
Jan 2016 – Jan 2018 | Austin, Texas Area
I mentored 3 cohorts of 20+ 1st year students meeting weekly for instruction, career prep, and open discussions to guide them into becoming successful students and valuable software engineers post-graduation

### Software Engineer @ Palantir Technologies
Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 | Greater New York City Area
Worked on the ▇▇ team doing ▇▇▇ and ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇. Wrote a lot of React and some Java along the way

Talked to people in SCIFs

### Software Engineer @ Twitch
Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 | San Francisco Bay Area
Built live-streaming comments on video uploads

### Software Engineer @ Twitch
Jan 2016 – Jan 2017 | Austin, Texas Area
Contract work

### Software Engineer @ Twitch
Jan 2016 – Jan 2016 | San Francisco Bay Area
Built the first full-stack Golang application at Twitch

Did lots of OAuth, Security & AWS stuff

### Product @ Gigster
Jan 2016 – Jan 2016
Did PM, Design, and Engineering work on various different projects ranging from internal Gigster infra to a contract with a large US bank

Learned what the word cross-functional meant

### Software Engineer @ Self Financial, Inc.
Jan 2015 – Jan 2016 | Austin, Texas Area
First intern – worked with the 2 founding engineers doing full-stack Python work, learned AWS

I also designed some stuff


## Education
### Bachelor of Science (B.S.) in Computer Science
The University of Texas at Austin


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/andysturzu

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Source: https://flows.cv/andysturzu
JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/andysturzu/resume.json
Last updated: 2026-04-05