# Karena C.

> Software Engineer

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

## Work Experience
### Software Engineer @ Second Spectrum
Jan 2024 – Present | New York, New York, United States

### Instagram Reels Engineer @ Meta
Jan 2022 – Jan 2023 | San Francisco, California, United States
Instagram Reels product engineer - designed non monetary creator tools and built new product experiences for 60M Instagram creators 
Server Engineer on Instagram Live - built the privacy infrastructure to go live to close friends

### Facebook Explore @ Meta
Jan 2021 – Jan 2022
Product engineer delivering new types of trends (trending groups, trending hashtags) on Facebook to young adults

### Privacy-Preserving AI @ Facebook
Jan 2020 – Jan 2020 | San Francisco, California, United States
AI Infrastructure - improved type system and runtime development experience for ads teams to switch to privacy-preserving recommendation systems

### Music Platform @ Facebook
Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 | San Francisco Bay Area
Built a tooling framework to edit song collections featured on Instagram music stickers
Extended the music data model to display culturally relevant sound collections on a per-country & per-time basis

### Android Intern @ Facebook
Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | San Francisco Bay Area
Android development

### Cloud Analytics Intern @ Upthere
Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 | Redwood City, CA
Analytics (expanded logging system and analyzed user data for Upthere's cloud service)


## Education
### Bachelor of Science - BS in Computer Science
Caltech


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/karena-chow

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Source: https://flows.cv/karenac
JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/karenac/resume.json
Last updated: 2026-04-01