# Junchao Yan > Software Engineer at Meta Location: Palo Alto, California, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/junchaoyan ## Work Experience ### Staff Software Engineer @ Meta Jan 2018 – Present | Menlo Park, CA 2023.7 - Present @Growth, Friending Recommendation 2021.7 - 2023.6 @ Meta FinTech, Blockchain Platform (formerly Novi) 2019.8 - 2021.7 @ Facebook Reality Lab (AR/VR), Portal 2018.7 - 2019.8 @ Instagram Ads ### Software Engineer @ Facebook Jan 2023 – Present | Menlo Park, California, United States Friending Recommendation ### Software Engineer @ Novi Financial Jan 2021 – Jan 2023 | Los Angeles, California, United States Facebook/Meta subsidiary, formerly F2 (Facebook Financial org), rebranded to Novi Financial. - Novi Digital Wallet Backend - Blockchain Indexing Infra (Ethereum, Polygon, Flow, Solana) - Blockchain Custody (HSM) Keywords: Crypto, NFT, Web3, Blockchain Infra ### Software Engineer @ Instagram Jan 2018 – Jan 2019 | Menlo Park, California Instagram Story Ads ### Software Engineer @ Hulu Jan 2014 – Jan 2018 | Greater Los Angeles Area Ads Platform (Ads Management, Ads Delivery, Ads Infra) ### Research Assistant @ Purdue University Jan 2013 – Jan 2014 | West Lafayette, IN ## Education ### Master of Science (M.S.) in Computer and Information Purdue University ### Electrical and Electronics Engineering University of Electronic Science and Technology of China ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/junchao-yan --- Source: https://flows.cv/junchaoyan JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/junchaoyan/resume.json Last updated: 2026-04-12