# Dipro Ray > Staff Software Engineer at Meta (Instagram) Location: San Francisco, California, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/dipro Product SWE growing Instagram's user base and building Instagram.com, the 4th most visited website in the world ## Work Experience ### Staff Software Engineer @ Meta Jan 2021 – Present | San Francisco Bay Area Instagram Growth: Web, SEO, Acquisition, Onboarding Facebook Reels: Video Captioning (Patent US12593108B2), Editing, Publishing, Creator Tools ### Undergraduate Researcher @ University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Jan 2019 – Jan 2021 | Urbana-Champaign, Illinois Area Forward Data Lab, Lab for Parallel Numerical Algorithms Senior Thesis: “Leveraging the Pattern-Relation Duality for Domain-specific Keyword Detection” ### Course Staff @ University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Jan 2018 – Jan 2021 | Champaign, Illinois, United States Algorithms, Discrete Math, Probability and Statistics ### Software Engineer Intern @ Facebook AI Jan 2020 – Jan 2020 | Remote Speech AI ### Software Engineer Intern @ Facebook Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 | Menlo Park, California Search Ranking ### Software Engineer and Research Intern (SPIN Fellow) @ National Center for Supercomputing Applications Jan 2018 – Jan 2019 | Urbana-Champaign, Illinois Area High Performance Computing for Genomics ## Education ### Bachelor of Science - BS in Computer Science University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/diproray --- Source: https://flows.cv/dipro JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/dipro/resume.json Last updated: 2026-04-12