# Animesh Tripathi

> Software Engineer at Instagram

Location: San Francisco Bay Area, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/animeshtripathi

## Work Experience
### Staff Software Engineer @ Instagram
Jan 2019 – Present | Menlo Park, California
Ads Delivery, Ranking, Supply

Our org works on ML, algorithms and infrastructure to decide which ads to show (ranking), when and how often they are shown (supply, auction) and how and where to show them (format, delivery, new surface monetization) across Instagram.

### Software Engineer @ Meta
Jan 2018 – Present | Menlo Park, California
Jul 2018 - Aug 2019: social graph ranking for messaging (stories, active now, sharing, search)
Aug 2019 - present: ads delivery, ranking, supply and vertical optimization for Instagram

### Software Engineering Intern @ Facebook
Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 | Menlo Park, California
Messenger Ranking (recommendation systems + ML infra for social graph ranking)

### Software Engineering Intern @ Pinterest
Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 | San Francisco Bay Area
Core Infrastructure

Built and shipped the first version of a distributed key value store based on RocksDB which now serves over 4PB and 100M QPS with low latency for Ads, Homefeed, Related Pins and other use cases:

https://medium.com/@Pinterest_Engineering/3-innovations-while-unifying-pinterests-key-value-storage-8cdcdf8cf6aa

### Research and Development Intern @ Jump Trading LLC
Jan 2015 – Jan 2017 | Greater Chicago Area
Caching, memory allocation, load balancing and price feeds for high frequency trading
Summer 2015, Summer 2016 (full-time); Fall 2015, Spring 2016, Spring 2017 (part-time)


## Education
### BS in Computer Science
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign


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

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Last updated: 2026-04-05