# Patricia Saylor

> Senior Software Engineer with a passion for frontend, ex-Facebook

Location: San Francisco Bay Area, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/patriciasaylor

Senior Software Engineer and tech lead with 7 years of experience across multiple teams and stacks at Facebook/Meta. I'm passionate about architecting user-friendly, delightful, reliable and performant frontends with many years of experience in React and React Native, GraphQL and Relay, Flow and Typescript, Flux and Redux. I enjoy leading projects, mentoring junior engineers and spreading modern and maintainable engineering practices throughout my teams.
Graduated from MIT with a BoS & MEng in Computer Science.

## Work Experience
### Senior Software Engineer @ Airtable
Jan 2023 – Present | San Francisco, California, United States

### Senior Software Engineer @ Facebook
Jan 2018 – Jan 2022 | Menlo Park, CA
- Tech lead for the Facebook Checkout team across web and mobile web in React which powered everything from event ticket sales on Facebook to charity donations. Rearchitected the frontend to be more reliable, more reactive, and more extensible for different checkout flow needs. 
- Tech lead for the new Instagram Checkout experience on mobile in React Native which powered the Instagram Shopping experience with a slick, transparent, and native-feeling checkout flow.
- Frontend tech lead for Marketplace Commerce Trust & Integrity developing a new metrics hub for sellers to understand and improve their performance relative to SLA's and customer experience.
- Tech lead for the video calling experience in the Messenger Desktop app for Mac and Windows collaborating with other leads on the successful release of a complete rewrite of the app from Electron to React Native for a more native, full-featured and integrated video calling experience. This included self-directed deep dive investigations into release metrics, performance issues and subsequent perf wins, and crashes and subsequent fixes. For this role, I mostly built in Typescript but also contributed some native code in C++, C, and Objective-C.

### Software Engineer @ Facebook
Jan 2015 – Jan 2018 | Menlo Park, CA
Built an array of payments and commerce experiences on Facebook and Messenger using React.

Payments, Marketplace & Commerce
- Messenger Peer to Peer Payments
- Facebook Checkout
  - Event Ticketing
  - Personal Fundraisers
  - Charity Donations

### Software Developer Intern @ Facebook
Jan 2014 – Jan 2014 | Seattle, WA
Intern on the Atlas Data Model team.
- Created an ETL on top of our databases to introduce a layer of abstraction between our database schema and the data models for faster development.

### Software Developer Intern @ Facebook
Jan 2013 – Jan 2013 | Seattle, WA
Intern on the Android Infra team.
• Ran experiments on the image cache in the Android app to try to increase the hit rate.
• Designed and implemented a framework to test the performance of new image caches on real cache access patterns without putting the cache into production.
• Analyzed current cache access patterns to determine where the image cache could be improved upon.

### SDE Intern @ Amazon
Jan 2012 – Jan 2012 | Seattle, WA
• Designed and implemented the structure and user interface for video review upload from mobile devices, specifically
Amazon's new line of Kindle Fire HD tablets, with an eye to cross-platform extensibility
• Designed and implemented the user interface for inline and full screen display of video reviews on mobile devices
• Integrated web development with native Android development

### Intern @ ROI Machinery and Automation
Jan 2011 – Jan 2011
•	Programmed three Motoman robots in an integrated conveyor production system for Columbia Flooring.
•	Assembled specialized tools for the robots in this system and in other systems.
•	Wired the robots’ cabinets that connect the robots to their tools and to each other.
•	Helped the company move to a new location by packing, loading and unloading a moving truck with a forklift, and painting the new office space.

### MIT Admissions Office @ MIT
Jan 2010 – Jan 2011


## Education
### Master of Engineering (MEng) in Electrical Engineering & Computer Science
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Jan 2014 – Jan 2015

### Bachelor's in Electrical Engineering & Computer Science
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Jan 2010 – Jan 2014


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

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Last updated: 2026-03-22