# Solomon Z. > Software Engineer, Swing Dance organizer and participant Location: Mountain View, California, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/solomonz My time in industry has taught me a great deal about how to build software quickly, effectively, and sustainably. Now, using AI tooling, I’ve seen my productivity skyrocket. I spent my first two years at Meta building a foundational tool called WhatBrokeThis to automatically diagnose and root cause many forms of breakages, before championing the overall diagnosis pillar of the system reliability team supporting the Meta Ads Manager platform. I now support the developer experience of other engineers and ML platform teams, flexing my skills in communicating with customers and iterating quickly to build solutions in ambiguous problem spaces. ## Work Experience ### Software Engineer @ Meta Jan 2020 – Present | San Francisco Bay Area ### Research Assistant @ Brown University Redistricting Project Jan 2019 – Jan 2021 | Providence, Rhode Island Area I joined Professor Philip Klein's Redistricting research group in the Spring of my Junior year at Brown, and have spent most of my time on the team implementing a sophisticated dynamic programming algorithm that Professor Klein had described in a paper some time earlier. While implementing the general design he described, I have been adding my own optimizations and improvements along the way, and have managed dramatic increases in efficiency that have taken the program from a place where in some cases it might have taken weeks or months to run on a supercomputer to one where I can now run it on those same inputs on my own laptop in under an hour. I continue to work on this project and make efficiency and functionality improvements over time. ### Software Engineer @ WhiteSmoke Jan 2020 – Jan 2020 | Tel Aviv, Israel At WhiteSmoke, I single-handedly built a prototype mobile app for the main company product using React Native from the ground up. I then built a prototype desktop app from scratch using Electron+React. For the desktop application, I developed a system of displaying and applying suggested textual replacements while maintaining the original text formatting. ### Software Engineering Intern @ Facebook Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 | Menlo Park, California At Facebook, I claimed ownership of an internal data upload tool and dramatically improved many features, including allowing multiple files to upload at the same time and removing the size limit on data files. I then transitioned the tool from using a Hive backend to SparkSQL. References available. ### "Logic for Computer Systems" Head Teaching Assistant @ Brown University Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 | Providence, Rhode Island ### "Introduction to Computer Systems" Teaching Assistant @ Brown University Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | Providence, Rhode Island As a TA for the Introduction to Computer Systems course at Brown, I was responsible for updating assignments and labs, grading student submissions, and, most importantly, helping students understand difficult concepts. I'm proficient in C and x86 Assembler, the two languages used in the course, and teaching students how to use these languages to build large scale programs such as a thread safe database or a copy of bash helped me cement my own understanding of the concepts covered in this course. ### Software Engineering Intern @ Yelp Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | San Francisco Bay Area At Yelp, I took charge of a multi-team effort to increase the number of moves booked through the Yelp platform. I worked with engineers and product managers from the local services team, the transactions team, and the search team to design and implement an A/B test that would measure the effects of specific text and icon changes on the conversion funnel for booking a move. While I was faced with a slew of blockers and other major issues that were impossible to predict when planning out the timeline for the project, I still managed to finish and ship the product on time, and I learned a great deal about how to deal with a variety of situations that might come up in my role as an engineer. Over the course of the summer, I received a great amount of detailed constructive feedback from managers and coworkers, and I could feel my skills as an engineer, especially those relating to communication and team work, grow immensely. ### "Advanced Introduction to Computer Science" Teaching Assistant @ Brown University Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 | Providence, Rhode Island Area As a teaching assistant for the accelerated introduction to computer science class, I was responsible for creating and updating assignments, answering student questions about assignments, grading student submissions, and helping students with difficult concepts. ### Junior Software Engineer @ Scientific Revenue Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 | San Francisco Bay Area At Scientific Revenue, I was tasked with designing and developing a new infrastructure for database access to make authentication easier. I also fixed plenty of bugs and added a lot of new on the company's main internal tool. ### Software Engineering Intern @ Motimatic Jan 2016 – Jan 2016 | San Francisco Bay Area Motimatic's mission is to help people motivate themselves to achieve their goals. Their primary consumers are college students who are at risk of dropping out of school. Motimatic uses targeted ads, among other methods, to help these students stay motivated and continue believing in themselves. I had the privilege of designing a new product for them, in the form of a web app that functioned similarly to Facebook Groups. I was responsible for presenting a draft of the frontend and a description of the whole stack, implementing my design using the Django framework, and writing extensive tests to cover all possible use cases. ## Education ### Bachelor of Science - BS in Computer Science Brown University ### High School in Computer Science Head-Royce School ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/solomon-z --- Source: https://flows.cv/solomonz JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/solomonz/resume.json Last updated: 2026-04-01