# Karen Lu > Staff Software Engineer at Meta Location: San Francisco, California, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/karenlu As a Staff Software Engineer at Meta for the past 7+ years, I have led engineering teams building nonprofit fundraising products on Instagram, data infrastructure and tooling for Social Impact products, and products for parents and families to support their teens on Instagram, Messenger, Facebook, and Meta Quest. I have a B.S. in Computer Science from Stanford University and enjoy teaching students of all ages! I have taught data structures & algorithms at Texas State University through Meta's Engineer in Residence program and an introductory Computer Science course at Woodside High School through TEALS. ## Work Experience ### Staff Software Engineer @ Meta Jan 2021 – Present | San Francisco, California, United States Parent & Family Experiences Team (Mar 2023 - present): Building products that enable parents and families to support teens on Meta products. Social Impact Ecosystems Foundations Team (July 2021 - Mar 2023): Built technical systems and data infrastructure to support product and integrity teams working on social issues in the civic, health, and climate spaces. ### Engineer in Residence (Lecturer) @ Meta Jan 2021 – Jan 2021 | San Francisco Bay Area Facebook Engineer in Residence teaching CS 3358 Data Structures and Algorithms at Texas State University in San Marcos, TX. The EIR program supports undergraduate students enrolled in computer science programs throughout the United States. The program provides high-touch learning experiences designed to help students prepare for opportunities in the tech industry. Through this program, Facebook engineers design and teach undergraduate computer science courses, drive innovations to CS curriculum, and help develop extracurricular programming at various colleges and universities. The program is designed to cultivate rigorous and inclusive computer science communities at minority serving institutions. Texas State is a Hispanic-serving institution (HSI). ### Senior Software Engineer @ Meta Jan 2020 – Jan 2020 | Menlo Park, California, United States Charitable Giving Team (June 2018 - December 2020): Built web and mobile products for peer to peer fundraising on Facebook and Instagram. Tech lead for Instagram fundraising products including nonprofit fundraisers, personal fundraisers, and donation stickers for IG Stories. ### Software Engineer @ Meta Jan 2017 – Jan 2020 | San Francisco Bay Area Charitable Giving Team (June 2018 - December 2020): Built web and mobile products for peer to peer fundraising on Facebook and Instagram. Tech lead for Instagram fundraising products including nonprofit fundraisers, personal fundraisers, and donation stickers for IG Stories. 360 Videos Team (September 2017 - June 2018): Enabled immersive video creators to upload and edit 360 and 180 videos on Facebook. ### Lecturer @ Texas State University Jan 2021 – Jan 2021 | San Marcos Facebook Engineer in Residence teaching CS 3358 Data Structures and Algorithms at Texas State University in San Marcos, TX. The EIR program supports undergraduate students enrolled in computer science programs throughout the United States. The program provides high-touch learning experiences designed to help students prepare for opportunities in the tech industry. Through this program, Facebook engineers design and teach undergraduate computer science courses, drive innovations to CS curriculum, and help develop extracurricular programming at various colleges and universities. The program is designed to cultivate rigorous and inclusive computer science communities at minority serving institutions. Texas State is a Hispanic-serving institution (HSI). ### Software Engineering Intern @ Coursera Jan 2016 – Jan 2016 Created marketing page and interest form for Coursera for Business launch on Aug 31, 2016. Worked with full time front-end engineers to create new web application for executive education administrators, including program analytics and settings pages. ### CS 106 Section Leader (Teaching Assistant) @ Stanford University Jan 2015 – Jan 2016 Taught introductory computer science sections for Programming Methodology (CS 106A). Graded student projects and exams, provided individualized in-person feedback, and staffed office hours. ### Site Reliability Engineering Intern @ Google Jan 2015 – Jan 2015 Added geographic visualization feature to internal dashboard for Spanner, Google's globally-replicated distributed database system. Researched and created design document. Implemented individualized maps for visualizing Spanner users' data configurations and resource usages. ### Software Engineering Intern @ Google Jan 2014 – Jan 2014 Designed and implemented new features and UI improvements for wiki-style web application used internally by Site Reliability Engineering teams at Google. Updated the application’s documentation and created a comprehensive user guide for Site Reliability Engineers. ## Education ### Bachelor of Science (B.S.) in Computer Science Stanford University Jan 2013 – Jan 2017 ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/lukaren --- Source: https://flows.cv/karenlu JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/karenlu/resume.json Last updated: 2026-03-23