# Benjamin Woodruff

> Software Engineer at ▲Vercel

Location: San Carlos, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/benjaminwoodruff

I am a Software Engineer at Vercel working on open-source software (Turbopack & Next.js) to improve the experience of developing for the web.

## Work Experience
### Software Engineer - Turbopack @ Vercel
Jan 2024 – Present | San Francisco, California, United States
Developing Turbopack, an open-source incremental bundler optimized for JavaScript and TypeScript, written in Rust. Used by Next.js.

### Software Engineer - Meta Developer Environments @ Meta
Jan 2022 – Jan 2024 | Menlo Park, California, United States
Improved the remote development experience for the internal engineering community at Meta, providing a platform similar to GitHub Codespaces.

Supported tools and services written in Rust, Python, and Hack (Meta’s PHP derivative) for CentOS-based environments configured with Chef and Systemd.

### User Interface Engineer - Meta AR/VR @ Meta
Jan 2020 – Jan 2022 | Burlingame, California, United States
Developed the new user and device setup experience for the Meta Quest 2 and Meta Quest Pro with React Native applications and integrations on top of Meta’s fork of Android.

As our product served as the initial experience for users, we upheld a high standard of polish by collaborating with multiple designers, UX researchers, and a dedicated team of QA specialists.

### Software Engineer - Instagram Server Framework @ Instagram
Jan 2018 – Jan 2020 | Menlo Park, CA
Improved developer velocity on Instagram’s Python-based server codebase. Created Python parsers and language tooling for linting and large-scale automated refactoring. Much of my work was open sourced as LibCST and Fixit.

Contributed to and used tooling to increase static type coverage of Instagram’s server codebase from near-zero to over 90% within a couple years. Supported partner teams making automated changes to improve privacy and security aspects of Instagram’s codebase.

### User Interface Engineer - Instagram Web @ Instagram
Jan 2016 – Jan 2018 | Menlo Park, California, United States
Worked as a User Interface Engineer on Instagram.com, a progressive web app written in React. Launched features and pushed internal architecture improvements, including Instagram Stories, a visual refresh, and a modernization of the platform’s GraphQL stack.

### User Interface Engineer Intern - Javascript Infrastructure @ Meta
Jan 2015 – Jan 2015 | Menlo Park, CA
Ported Facebook’s web frontend linting to ESLint. Received and accepted a full-time return offer.

### SDE Intern @ Amazon
Jan 2014 – Jan 2014
Created tools to optimize the dimensions of packaging material available to Fulfullment Center workers based on previously shipped orders. Received a return offer.


## Education
### Master’s Degree in Computer Software Engineering
University of Florida
Jan 2014 – Jan 2015

### Bachelor's degree in Computer Software Engineering
University of Florida
Jan 2011 – Jan 2014


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/bgwoodruff
- Website: http://benjam.info

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Last updated: 2026-03-20