# Jack Gartland

> Software Engineer @ Instagram (Meta)

Location: New York, New York, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/jackgartland

Staff Android Engineer at Instagram with 5+ years of experience building products at billion-user scale. Created Instagram Schools from a pitch to a product used by over a million college students, working across engineering and cross-functional teams to bring it to life. Passionate about the intersection of engineering and product thinking — I care most about building things people genuinely want to use.

## Work Experience
### Staff Software Engineer @ Instagram
Jan 2025 – Present | New York, NY

### Senior Software Engineer @ Instagram
Jan 2022 – Jan 2025 | New York, New York, United States

### Software Engineer @ Instagram
Jan 2020 – Jan 2022 | New York, New York, United States

### Co-Founder & CTO @ FriendChip
Jan 2018 – Jan 2020 | Stanford, CA
- Developed a mobile social application using iOS/Swift/Xcode and Firebase
- Participated in the Cardinal Ventures startup accelerator program
- Met with investors and mentors and developed long-term business strategy
- Regularly interviewed users to inform business decisions and rapidly address feedback by developing new features

### Lead Instructor (CS 51 & 52) @ Stanford University
Jan 2018 – Jan 2020 | Stanford, CA
- Organize curriculum and work with industry partners as a co-teacher for the Stanford CS + Social Good Studio course series (CS 51: Designing Social Impact Projects/CS 52: Implementing Social Impact Projects).
- Provide support for student teams building tech-based solutions to problems in the social-impact space.
- Teach skills such as needfinding, design thinking, UX design, and technical implementation of web or mobile apps.

### Course Instructor (CS 51 & 52) @ Stanford University
Jan 2017 – Jan 2018 | Stanford, CA

### Software Engineer Intern @ Meta
Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 | New York, New York

### Software Engineering Intern @ One Concern
Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | Palo Alto, California
- Led effort to build a mobile app using React Native for first responders to use on the ground in the event of an earthquake to identify structurally damaged buildings and save lives
- Built new features to address client feedback on the existing web platform using Ruby on Rails, HTML, and Javascript
- Contributed to company-wide brainstorm meetings on product development
- Collaborated alongside a large engineering team using the agile development methodology

### Software Engineering & Design Intern @ 6Connex China
Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 | Shanghai, China
- Responsible for the design, implementation, and deployment of multiple aspects of a hospital virtualization app, including features such as virtual appointments with patients, management of patient health records, and the ability to prescribe medication electronically.
- Gained expertise with full-stack web development technologies including responsive design, AngularJS, HTML/CSS, and Javascript; used GitHub for version control and team collaboration.
- Designed and presented mockups to upper-level management and company CEO.
- Created a WeChat app and learned the unique requirements of building for the Chinese market.
- Developed an online platform that has been directly deployed in hospital networks across China.
- Interviewed Chinese doctors, patients, and hospital administrators and refined the product based on subsequent insights.

### Researcher and Developer @ CS+Social Good
Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 | Stanford, CA
- Worked with a team of four Stanford grad & undergrad students to create an app to assist teachers with reaching out to struggling middle school students
- Refined knowledge of the iOS development lifecycle, Swift, and Xcode
- Used the Design Thinking methodology to understand user needs in the education space and arrive at our solution
- Gained familiarity with prototyping tools (Sketch/InVision)

### Intern, Social Robotics Lab @ Yale University
Jan 2015 – Jan 2015 | New Haven, CT
- Conducted research on applying neural networks to image segmentation for applications with industrial robotics
- Developed expertise working with machine learning, Theano, Python

### Intern, Social Robotics Lab @ Yale University
Jan 2014 – Jan 2014 | New Haven, CT
- Designed and programmed computer vision solutions for social robots 
- Gained experience working with Python and interfacing with robots


## Education
### Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science
Stanford University

### High School
Greens Farms Academy

### School Year Abroad - China

### New Canaan Country School


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/jack-gartland

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Last updated: 2026-03-30