# Sneha Advani

> Software Engineer at Instagram

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

## Work Experience
### Software Engineer @ Instagram
Jan 2020 – Present | San Francisco, California, United States
Android Engineer on Instagram Close Friends Experiences

### Software Engineer Technical Lead @ Soulsmile Club
Jan 2020 – Jan 2021
- Joined founding team of Soulsmile Club (www.soulsmile.club), a quickly growing tech non-profit startup that provides a unique donation platform where users can give a portion of their online purchases to charities fighting pressing global issues like COVID-19 and racial injustice
- Led fast-paced, full-stack technical development for a web app and browser extension, building from the ground up using JavaScript, React, Firebase Auth/Realtime Database, Material-UI, and more -- all while conducting user research studies, creating strategic marketing materials, developing long-term business plans, and working on user and partner outreach

### Software Engineering Intern @ Facebook
Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 | San Francisco Bay Area
- Created 9 new cross-placement measurement metrics and visualizations to better understand user sentiment and the quality of ads on 25+ Facebook placement areas -- built data pipelines with SQL and Python and presented insights to team
- Collaborated with software engineers, data scientists, data engineers, UX researchers, and PMs from teams throughout Facebook, Instagram, and Messenger to communicate my findings and drive growth throughout the company
- Improved code quality and organization on ads infrastructure in C++ and Thrift, cleaning up 1700+ lines of legacy code and creating 5 new logging metrics to organize data, and built new, optimized ML model training flow using Facebook's ML tools

### Undergraduate Teaching Assistant for CIS 320: Introduction to Algorithms @ University of Pennsylvania
Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 | Greater Philadelphia Area
- Taught theoretical computer science course covering topics such as universal hashing, BSTs, graph algorithms, dynamic programming, network flows, NP-completeness theory, and approximation algorithms

### Undergraduate Teaching Assistant for CIS 121: Data Structures and Algorithms @ University of Pennsylvania
Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | Greater Philadelphia Area
- Taught 200+ freshmen and sophomores in Penn's introductory data structures and algorithms course
- Led weekly recitations with 15-20 students, held office hours for help with debugging and conceptual understanding, and wrote and graded homework assignments and exams (both programming and theoretical)
- Covered Java programming, BSTs, graph algorithms, searching and sorting, runtime analysis, and more

### Software Engineering & Program Manager Intern @ Microsoft
Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | Greater Seattle Area
- Designed and implemented 3 new alignment tools using Unity and C# for Microsoft Layout, an application for the HoloLens headset that allows users to design and visualize spaces in mixed reality
- Presented feature prototypes to several enterprise customers and conducted extensive user research and testing to gain feedback, iterate quickly, and demonstrate project's high customer value
- Worked as a software engineering, program manager, and design intern in the Microsoft Explore rotational program

### Research Assistant @ Computational Neuroscience Initiative at University of Pennsylvania
Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Created computational models using MATLAB to study stochastic synchrony in mitral cells of the olfactory bulb

### Research Assistant @ Duke University - The Fuqua School of Business
Jan 2015 – Jan 2015 | Durham, NC
Investigated movie rental pricings on various platforms and used SPSS to analyze data and draw insights


## Education
### Master of Science in Engineering (M.S.E) in Computer and Information Science
University of Pennsylvania
Jan 2019 – Jan 2020

### Bachelor of Science in Engineering (B.S.E.) in Computer Science
University of Pennsylvania
Jan 2016 – Jan 2020

### Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) in Cognitive Science
University of Pennsylvania
Jan 2016 – Jan 2020

### High School Diploma
Cary Academy
Jan 2012 – Jan 2016


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

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Last updated: 2026-03-22