# Matt Vestal

> Software engineer at Owner.com

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

Specialties: User interface design and development, Web technologies, Software development, Technology commercialization

## Work Experience
### Software Engineer @ Owner
Jan 2022 – Present

### Frontend Engineer @ Instagram
Jan 2019 – Jan 2022
I work on video experiences for Instagram web.

Built the live video viewer for desktop web, allowing millions of people per week to participate in Instagram Lives from their computers.

Implemented IGTV video upload resume and chunking. Ran multivariate experiments that optimized upload configuration. Increased the upload success rate by 25%.

### Front End Engineer @ Facebook
Jan 2016 – Jan 2019 | Menlo Park, CA
I led the migration of the "Saved" tab of the Facebook app from native iOS and Android to React Native. This increased team productivity and enabled daily releases (from every 2 weeks). 

I collaborated with product managers, designers, and user researchers to build exploratory features and surfaces such as a travel inspiration surface.

### Staff Software Engineer @ Vrbo
Jan 2011 – Jan 2016
Developed key aspects of the shopping experience, including the homepage, interactive map search, photo carousels, and date picker. 

Created libraries for sharing business logic, object models, and UI elements— enabled new application development and the breaking up of a mono-repo.

Sped up product development by piloting company-wide shift from A/B to multivariate experimentation. Improved developer experience by architecting solution for template reuse across server and client rendering.

### Software Engineer @ IBM
Jan 2006 – Jan 2011
Developed an enterprise web application using Java Server Faces, DOJO, JavaScript, CSS, and Java.

Participated in a customer design partnership program and created online educational and promotional materials.

### Software engineer, Co-op @ IBM
Jan 2004 – Jan 2006
Implemented out of the box experience for Rational development products


## Education
### MS in Technology Commercialization
Texas McCombs School of Business

### BS in Computer Science
North Carolina State University


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

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Last updated: 2026-04-11