# Austin Riopelle > Software Engineer at Meta Location: San Francisco Bay Area, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/austinriopelle Software engineer with 4.5 years of experience at Meta, proficient in Android OS+application development and UX principles. Proven ability to lead cross-functional teams, drive architectural decisions, mentor junior engineers, and deliver solutions to millions of users with A/B testing and data-driven insights. ## Work Experience ### Software Engineer @ Meta Jan 2023 – Jan 2025 | Burlingame, California, United States Meta Reality Labs : VR Device Access Team - Developed technical design, implementation, and experiment to launch a new feature to restrict access for logged-out Meta Quest users, leading to a 24% increase in relogin success rate, and 11% reduction in the number of users stuck in the logged-out state. - Led a cross-functional team of engineers, design, and PM to ship several key UX improvements to the passcode experience on Meta Quest. - Coordinated the migration of the Quest passcode code to a new, more extensible architecture, completing this for my own team and then overseeing its successful integration in client apps by partnering with engineers in each team. - Completed a refactor of the code for the Quest passcode feature, eliminating duplication across two repositories and increasing comprehensibility and maintainability by deleting over 13k lines of extraneous code. ### Software Engineer @ Meta Jan 2020 – Jan 2023 | Burlingame, California, United States Meta Reality Labs : Portal Device Infrastructure Team - Developed technical design, implementation, and experiment to launch new input methods for user login on Portal, including QR code login. ### Software Engineering Intern @ Facebook Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 | Menlo Park, California Interned at Facebook on the Ads Conversion Experiences team to build tools in Hack and React for advertising metrics. Also created an original system for aggregating and displaying data about advertiser penalties for use across multiple Ads teams. ### Software Engineer Intern @ Indeed.com Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | Austin, Texas Area Worked as a SWE intern at Indeed on the Chaos Engineering team to deliver tools to enable destructive testing for a variety of applications. ### College Technical Intern @ Northrop Grumman Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 | McLean, VA Interned for Summer 2017 at Northrop Grumman Technology Services, System Modernization & Services Division. ### iOS Development Intern @ Solebrity, Inc. Jan 2015 – Jan 2016 | Ashburn, VA Assisting in the front-end development of an iOS shopping application. My work consisted of writing Swift code for interface functions to meet design specifications, as well as testing and reconfiguring app functions as user feedback came in. I returned to the company in the summer of 2016 to help complete additional maintenance work on the app as well as QA functions to ensure that the now-released app worked as intended for each release. ### Data Entry Intern @ American Wood Council Jan 2014 – Jan 2014 | Leesburg, VA Testing educational materials and logging hardcopy information into an electronic database. ## Education ### Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science : Engineering University of Michigan Jan 2016 – Jan 2020 ### High School Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology Jan 2012 – Jan 2016 ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/austin-riopelle-866bb8124 --- Source: https://flows.cv/austinriopelle JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/austinriopelle/resume.json Last updated: 2026-03-22