# Michael Socha

> Staff Software Engineer at Meta

Location: Seattle, Washington, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/michaelsocha

## Work Experience
### Staff Software Engineer @ Meta
Jan 2024 – Present | Seattle, Washington, United States

### Senior Software Engineer @ Meta
Jan 2021 – Jan 2024 | Seattle, Washington, United States

### Software Engineer @ Meta
Jan 2019 – Jan 2021 | Seattle, Washington, United States

### Software Engineer @ Facebook @ PRO Unlimited
Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 | Toronto, Canada Area
Oversaw the expansion of my internship project on the Authenticity Team to new markets.

### Software Engineering Intern @ Facebook
Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | Seattle, WA
• Worked as a full-stack developer on the Political Authenticity team’s identity verification framework
• Developed a user-facing web wizard, internal tooling, and analytics dashboards for a new feature that lets users verify their identity using notary services
• Handled the project’s cross-functional comms with design, content, and operations teams

### Software Engineering Intern @ Facebook
Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | Menlo Park, CA
• As a member of the Job Search team, I added several React Native mobile surfaces to help page admins manage their job posts, including a new applications and upcoming interviews surface
• Built Hive data pipelines, a PHP API and a React Native mobile front-end to implement an insights dashboard that shows page admins key metrics for their job posts

### Software Engineer - iOS @ Wish - Shopping Made Fun!
Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 | San Francisco, CA
• Participated in a complete rewrite of Wish's iOS e-commerce app from Objective-C to Swift
• Implemented app's networking layer, including API services, login, and session management
• Built several user-facing features of the app, including the main product details page, user and merchant profile pages, and login screens

### Mobile Engineer @ Wish - Shopping Made Fun!
Jan 2016 – Jan 2016 | San Francisco, CA
• Worked as a full stack developer on the Product Team of one of North America's leading mobile e- commerce platforms
• Implemented experimental features across Wish's mobile clients (Android and iOS), website and backend, which significantly increased order volume and social media shares of products

### Software Developer - Android @ WeMesh
Jan 2016 – Jan 2016 | Waterloo, ON
• Expanded WeMesh's distributed video synchronization client on Android to support video
  streaming from three additional content sources
• Applied OpenGL ES to implement filters on videos, including blurring and letterbox cropping
• Overhauled the UI of several key fragments, including the app's main video-searching page
• Used performance profiling tools to improve the Android app's stability and performance

### Application Developer @ kenna:
Jan 2015 – Jan 2015 | Mississauga, ON
• As a full stack web developer, applied JavaScript (with jQuery), HTML, CSS, and MS SQL to
  implement new features, improvements, and bug fixes on enterprise websites
• Expanded APIs used to interface with client databases to support new search filters
• Performed ad hoc data query implementations for custom data extractions using MS SQL

### Backend Developer @ UW Aquaponics Design Team
Jan 2014 – Jan 2015 | Waterloo, ON
The University of Waterloo Aquaponics Design Team is a group of students dedicated to designing and building aquaponics systems, which are self-sustaining farming units that run natural cycles internally, such as the carbon and nitrogen cycles.

As a back-end developer, I constructed a relational database in MySQL to store data collected from an aquaponics system's sensors. I also implemented server-side scripts in PHP to create a database management system and to run analytics on the collected data.


## Education
### Software Engineering
University of Waterloo
Jan 2014 – Jan 2019

### Gordon Graydon Memorial Secondary School
Jan 2010 – Jan 2014


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/michael-socha-14002661

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Last updated: 2026-03-22