# Haoming Chen

> Software Engineer at Threads/Instagram/Facebook

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

Software engineer at Facebook. Besides general software engineering, my interest lies in Machine Learning, Natural Language Processing, and Information Retrieval.

## Work Experience
### Staff Software Engineer @ Instagram
Jan 2022 – Present | Menlo Park, California
Tech lead with a proven track record of building and scaling ML engineering teams and initiatives that have successfully driven user growth at Instagram and Threads.
   
- Threads Growth Relevance
- IG Recommendation Relevance (Reels Retrieval, Signals, IG Explore)
- IG Growth (Friending Recommendation)

### Senior Software Engineer @ Meta
Jan 2018 – Jan 2022 | Menlo Park, California
FB Groups Recommendation
FB Groups Integrity

### Graduate Teaching Assistant @ Carnegie Mellon University
Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
TA for 11-442/11-642 : Search Engines

### Software Engineer Intern @ Yahoo
Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 | Sunnyvale, California
Deep learning solutions for Natural Language Understanding using Keras, Tensorflow. Implemented neural models for a Chatbot virtual assistant with no feature engineering, greatly improved system performance with very limited data.

• Domain Classification: Designed Convolutional Neural Net with word embedding and beat the production SVM model.

• Utterance Slots Tagging: Implemented a Bidirectional-LSTM that automatically learns features for sequential tagging (23 tags) with 95.73% accuracy, which outperformed the production system: CRF with 55 human-designed features.

### Graduate Research Assistant @ Carnegie Mellon University
Jan 2016 – Jan 2017 | Pittsburgh, PA, US
Research on Machine Learning, NLP and Information Retrieval.

### Software Engineering Intern @ iPIN.com
Jan 2015 – Jan 2015 | Shenzhen, Guangdong, China
Implemented Machine Learning and NLP models for an intelligent search engine to conduct talent analysis and searching to find the best matching candidates for an open position. Improves resume selecting efficiency by 10x and outperforms keyword search 20x in matching accuracy.


## Education
### Master's degree in Computer Science
Carnegie Mellon University

### Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science
Sun Yat-sen University


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

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Last updated: 2026-04-12