# Helen Park

> Software Engineer at Facebook

Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/helenpark

## Work Experience
### Senior Software Engineer @ Meta
Jan 2023 – Present | New York, United States
Working on next generation Augmented Reality Glasses

### Senior Software Engineer @ Instagram
Jan 2019 – Jan 2023 | Bay Area
Joined as part of the Instagram Account Safety team as a backend engineer working on solutions to keep users in control and hackers at bay.

### Software Engineer @ Instagram
Jan 2018 – Jan 2019 | Menlo Park, California
•	Built full stack real time debugging tool for publish & subscribe events in Instagram infrastructure 
•	Reduced false positives for internal schema validation system
•	Programmed in Python, JS, React, thrift, Java, SQL, Django, HTML, CSS

### Software Engineer - Network Security @ Salesforce
Jan 2017 – Jan 2018 | San Francisco Bay Area
•	Built ACL ingestion portal backend involving API design and development
•	Researched and architected network security solutions involving in-house ACL enforcement controller-agent dealing with ACL compilers, host enforcement agents and packet filtering frameworks
•	Programmed in Python, Go, Bash. Used iptables, nftables, Calico, Capirca, Kubernetes, OpenStack

### Software Engineer - Infrastructure @ Salesforce
Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 | San Francisco Bay Area
•	Built authorization layer for Salesforce PAAS which authorizes ~3600 requests/sec in 4 data centers globally
•	Developed custom RBAC policy format, API server parsers, audit logs and an emergency override
•	Programmed in Python, Go, Bash. Used Puppet, Docker and Kubernetes, Slack API, Google API, Argus

### Consulting System Engineer @ Cisco
Jan 2016 – Jan 2017 | Toronto, Canada Area
• Built API integration POCs for customers, leading to increase in product adoption 
• Developed a POC for hospitals which reduced wait time for patients
• Programmed in Java, JavaScript, HTML, CSS. Used Tropo and Spark APIs

### Solutions Developer (Co-op) @ TD
Jan 2015 – Jan 2015 | Communitech Hub Waterloo
•	Launched integration of Facebook’s Messenger and TD bank to offer secure support via mobile app 
•	Developed Android app and token generation/processing to ensure secure channel in an IM app
•	Programmed in Java using API integrations, biometric authentication, chrome extension

### Automation Developer Co-op @ Rogers Communications
Jan 2015 – Jan 2015 | 350 Bloor St
•	Led the development of automation framework from ground up 
•	Supported failure risk by providing auditing capabilities, emergency updates and persistent logs
•	Programed in Java and leveraged Jenkins and Selenium Grid/Webdriver and Rest Assured


## Education
### St. Robert CHS

### Mathematics and Computer Science
University of Waterloo


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/hireme-helen-park

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Last updated: 2026-03-22