# Syed A. > Senior Software Engineer at Meta (Facebook) Location: Menlo Park, California, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/syed My website (and CV): https://syedabdullah.net My GitHub profile: https://github.com/skaty I like tinkering and building stuff for fun too much that I made it my career. ## Work Experience ### Senior Software Engineer @ Meta Jan 2023 – Present | Sunnyvale, California, United States ### Software Engineer @ Meta Jan 2019 – Jan 2023 | Menlo Park, United States Software Engineer working on the Integrity space in Facebook and its related properties. Creating solutions to facilitate content review for tens of millions of reports per day and empower content reviewers to enforce, improve and maintain integrity. ### Software Engineering Intern @ ViSenze - AI for Visual Commerce Jan 2018 – Jan 2019 | Singapore Hydravision API Team - implemented API endpoints for the Hydravision platform - a visual AI training and evaluation platform. Internship as part of the SGInnovate Summation Programme. Technologies used: Go, GRPC + Protobuf, PostgreSQL, Kubernetes (k8s) ### Undergraduate Teaching Assistant @ National University of Singapore Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | Singapore Teaching Assistant for the following modules: - CS3210: Parallel Computing [Dr Cristina Carbunaru] Taught tutorial and lab sessions for module. Responsible for crafting tutorial questions, labs and assignments for GPGPU (CUDA). - CS2107 & TIC2301: Introduction to Information Security [Dr Sufatrio] Taught tutorial sessions, marked presentations and assignments. ### Software Engineering Intern @ Facebook Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | Menlo Park, United States Platformization under the Care Tools team (Community Integrity). - Created and improved tools to enhance enforcement of Facebook's community standards - Created and improved moderation tools that assists moderators in enforcing Facebook's community standards Technologies used: Hack, HTML and ES6 ### Undergraduate Teaching Assistant @ National University of Singapore Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 | Singapore AY17/18 Semester 1: - IT1007: Introduction to Programming in Python and C [Dr Alan Cheng and A/P Bharadwaj Veeravalli] - CS2103/T: Software Engineering [A/P Damith Rajapakse] - CS2106: Introduction to Operating Systems [Dr Soo Yuen Jien] (Laboratory TA Coordinator) ### Software Engineering Intern @ ViSenze - Artificial Intelligence for the Visual Web Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 | Singapore Development of internal tools to assist fellow staff in performing experiments for recognition and search evaluation of AI system. Improvements to code quality, UI and UX of the evaluation system, resulting in increased stability of system. Technologies used: Java, Spring Framework, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, AngularJS, Jenkins. ### Student Assistant @ Centre for Asset Management Research and Investments, NUS Business School Jan 2015 – Jan 2017 | Singapore Assisting staff at CAMRI in designing, creating and implementing software solutions for a financial management lab. - Created a more efficient synchronisation system for financial stock, indices and commodities data, sourced from Bloomberg Terminal API data feeds. - Proposed a system to improve synchronisation of past financial modelling data to lab PCs. - Planning and developing improvements to CAMRI's Retirement Income Fund Calculator. ### Undergraduate Teaching Assistant @ National University of Singapore Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 | Singapore AY16/17 Semester 1: - CS2100: Computer Organisation [Mr Aaron Tan and Dr Colin Tan] (Laboratory TA) Managed two classes of 20 students each, evaluated and marked laboratory assignments on Computer Organisation (Combinational and sequential circuit design techniques & MIPS). Relevant technologies: Logic Trainer, Logisim and MIPS Assembly Language. ### Undergraduate Teaching Assistant @ National University of Singapore Jan 2016 – Jan 2016 | Singapore AY16/17 Semester 1: - CS1101S: Programming Methodology [A/P Martin Henz and Dr Low Kok Lim] Lead and facilitate a 2 hour Discussion Group for a group of 8 CS1101S students and to assess the student's performance in Missions - interactive, gamified assessments for the module. Relevant technologies: Source (subset of JavaScript) ### Software Engineering Intern (Full Stack) @ ShopBack Jan 2016 – Jan 2016 | Singapore Full-stack developer for one of the most rapidly growing startups in Singapore. Worked with a team of developers and product managers to realise a new major feature for ShopBack's website, moving it beyond being just a cashback site! Technologies utilised: AngularJS, React, HTML/CSS, Python, PHP, CodeIgniter, Laravel ### Software Engineering Intern @ Adiuva Pte Ltd Jan 2015 – Jan 2015 | Singapore Redesgined EventWiz, an online B2C marketplace for event services. - Maintained existing marketplace written in PHP using CodeIgniter. - Revamped website from scratch using Django framework. ### Full Time National Service @ Singapore Civil Defence Force Jan 2013 – Jan 2015 | Singapore Hospital Medic for Singapore General Hospital Department of Emergency Medicine, under the Emergency Medical Services Department, HQ Division, SCDF. Implemented Android app prototype to improve recording of ambulance turnaround time at hospitals. Certifications/Achievements: BCLS, AED, Medical Orderly Course (EMT level course) and Perfect Attendance (No Medical Leave) ### Trade Finance Assistant @ ICICI Bank, Singapore Jan 2012 – Jan 2013 Assisted Trade Finance officers in processing incoming and outgoing Letters of Credit (LCs) and Bank Guarantees (BGs). ### Temporary Administrator @ NCS Group Jan 2010 – Jan 2011 | Singapore Helped out with NCS' IT assets tagging contract for Schools SoE initiative. ## Education ### Bachelor of Computing (Hons) in Computer Science National University of Singapore Jan 2015 – Jan 2019 ### Student Exchange Programme in Computer Science The University of Hong Kong Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 ### A-Levels Tampines Junior College Jan 2011 – Jan 2012 ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/syedabd --- Source: https://flows.cv/syed JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/syed/resume.json Last updated: 2026-03-22