# Paari Gopal

> Staff Software Engineer (E6) @ Instagram

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

I currently work as a staff software engineer at Instagram. If you have a pressing problem that needs solving, contact me at gopalpaari@gmail.com.

## Work Experience
### Staff Software Engineer (E6) @ Instagram
Jan 2025 – Present | New York, United States
Threads and Instagram APIs

### Senior Software Engineer @ Instagram
Jan 2024 – Jan 2025 | New York, United States

### Software Engineer @ Instagram
Jan 2021 – Jan 2024 | Menlo Park, California, United States
Instagram Developer Platform Team (E3/E4)

### Undergraduate Student Researcher @ University of Washington
Jan 2020 – Jan 2021 | Seattle, Washington, United States
- Working on Sidewalk Evolution in the UW CSE Makeability Lab under professor Jon Froehlich
- Sharif, A., Gopal, P., Saugstad, M., Bhatt, S., Fok, R., Weld, G., Dey, K., Froehlich, J. E. (2021). Experimental Crowd+AI Approaches to Track Accessibility Features in Sidewalk Intersections Over Time. Proceedings of ASSETS 2021.

### Software Engineering Intern @ Airbnb
Jan 2020 – Jan 2020 | San Francisco, California, United States
Internship deferred due to COVID-19

### Software Engineering Intern @ Facebook
Jan 2020 – Jan 2020 | Greater Seattle Area
Worked on the Gaming Services team within Facebook Gaming

- Implemented a new API for Facebook Gaming to help customers make their games more social
- Worked on the Facebook object layer, Graph API, Developer Portal, and Mobile UI to implement 10 different features for this new API
- Architected and implemented an end-to-end solution for a crucial iOS feature as part of a cross-org solution for a key customer
- Technologies: Hack, Java, Objective-C, GraphQL

### Software Engineering Intern @ Amazon
Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 | Seattle, Washington
Worked on a team in Amazon's consumer organization.

- Architected and implemented the unification of two cross-organizational data pipelines using AWS SQS, SNS, Lambda, and DynamoDB to increase scalability and decrease latency from 15 min to 500 ms
- Augmented the user experience on the Amazon seller portal with transitions and animations
- Increased test coverage of a critical web application from 50% to 80% to reduce downtime
- Technologies: Go, Javascript, Java, Vue.js, AWS

### Software Engineering Intern @ Lob
Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 | San Francisco, California
Worked on the Postmasters Team controlling the company's physical print and mail pipeline.

- Designed and created seven API endpoints and updated an internal UI dashboard to provide more control to our Partner Ops team and reduce setup time by multiple hours when onboarding new printer partners
- Architected and implemented four API endpoints to make our print partners' reporting robust and scalable, saving an hour of developer time per new report type
- Reformatted printer partner error tracking messages using Mandrill for consistency
- Made minor improvements to improve API performance and remove DB overhead
- Technologies: Go, Javascript, Node.js, Hapi.js, React, Terraform, AWS, SQL

### Software Engineering Intern @ University of Washington
Jan 2018 – Jan 2019 | Seattle, Washington
Worked on Project Sidewalk in the UW CSE Makeability Lab, a research project under professor Jon Froehlich that helps disabled individuals navigate city streets using crowd sourcing.

- Improved the user dashboard to provide users with additional information about their contributions
- Implemented a new onboarding screen to better prepare new users for missions
- Led a software redesign to use an updated version of the Turf.js mapping library
- Technologies: Scala, SQL, jQuery, Angular.js

### Software Engineering Intern @ GoDaddy
Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | Kirkland, Washington
Worked on the Digital Care Team that owns the GoDaddy help and community pages.

- Designed and implemented over 10 new full stack features for a chatbot that personalizes the GoDaddy Help experience
- Contributed to the front-end of "Namestormer", the best CX hack at the intern hackathon
- Served as Scrum master: prioritized additional documentation and streamlined stand-up ceremony to increase team velocity
- Technologies: Javascript, Node.js, React, Jasmine, Enzyme, Docker, Kubernetes

### Automation Intern @ Agilysys
Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 | Bellevue, Washington
Worked on the Buy PaaS team that was tasked with creating an API for handling customer orders.

- Tested and fixed an Order Service API that helps customers easily implement applications that create orders, add items, add payment, close orders, etc.
- Programmed over 10 new validation rules to improve order processing accuracy
- Logged over 50 bugs and fixed 10+ bugs to improve service usability
- Technologies: Java, Java Spring, TestNG


## Education
### Bachelor's degree in Computer Science
University of Washington

### IB Diploma in STEM (HL Computer Science, HL Math, HL Physics)
International Baccalaureate

### International Baccalaureate Diploma Recipient
Skyline High School


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

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Last updated: 2026-03-30