Acy Watson
Software Engineer at Meta
- Role
- Software Engineer at Meta
- Location
- Seattle, WA, US
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About Acy Watson
Experienced tech lead with a proven track record of designing, delivering, and maintaining impactful, customer-focused products.
Experience
Software Engineer
May 2021 — Present · Seattle, WA, US
InfraX: Led a team oriented around the mission of \"making infrastructure management easier at Meta\". Developed and scaled an internal tooling platform for provisioning, observing, and managing infrastructure running on Meta internal systems. Developed cost observability and capacity management tooling supporting planet-scale AI and conventional workloads.*Authoring: Led a team of 7 engineers focused on improving the experience of creating, editing, and consuming text for over 500 million Lexical users across Meta web surfaces. Developed and executed on a technical vision to build a new, unified authoring platform on internal surfaces, ultimately scaling to over 100k users. Worked with accessibility partners to continuously audit new and existing editor features against WCAG and practical usability standards.* Lexical Core: Led the initiative to open source a new framework for building web-based rich-text editors. Worked with senior leadership across multiple teams to build cross-organizational alignment on release approval, timeline and logistics. Planned and led the implementation of the public documentation website. Worked as a core maintainer of the library.* Business Inbox: Led a team of 8 engineers in the front-end design and development of a new business messaging product. Designed several launch-critical systems, including access management, message notifications, rich-text composition, and content sanitization. Mentored early-career and peer engineers, directly contributing to multiple promotions.
Education
Moscow State Institute of International Relations (University) MFA Russia MGIMO
Master of Arts (M.A.), Politics and Economics in Eurasia
2011 — 2013
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Political Science and Global Studies (Double Major)
2007 — 2011
University of Virginia
Certificate of Completion, Russian Language (Intensive)
2011 — 2011
Skills
- Event Planning
- Legislative Affairs
- Wordpress
- Politics
- Constituent Services
- Css3
- Policy Analysis
- Internet Research
- Agricultural Policy
- State Government
- Newsletters
- Political Campaigns
- Personal Training
- Excel
- Report Writing
- Javascript
- Html 5
- Angularjs
- Social Media
- Typescript
- Phpmyadmin
- Firebase
- Fitness Instruction
- Angular
- Research
- Phalcon Framework
- Jquery
- Social Media Marketing
- Microsoft Excel
- Legislative Research
- Russian
- Mysql
- Writing
- Php
- Translation
- Angular 4
- Github
- Web Design
- Git
- Russian Politics
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