Raffi Hovagimian

About Raffi Hovagimian

Software Engineer with a background including a thorough understanding of both object-oriented and functional programming methodologies. Strengths are cloud-based enterprise application development and have led projects building on top of the Force.com platform, as well as Java spring-based architecture. Expert in front-end development experience in HTML5, CSS3, and Javascript frameworks, specifically React, Lightning, and AngularJS.Specialties: Proficient programming JavaScript, PHP, Java, Apex, Lightning, SQL, CSS, HTML5.

Experience

1. Software Engineer

   Meta

   Apr 2019 — Present

   Built UI, data model, and endpoints using React, Relay and GraphQL allowing a team of curators to discover, organize, collaborate on and publish updates to the Facebook News surface, as well as provide transparency into the curation process for policy purposes. Since initial release, the tool has become platformized and used by several teams across Facebook including Watch, Info Hubs (COVID, Voting, Lift Black Voices, Climate Science) and more.Drove core surface experimentation workstream to deliver new UI for articles as well as collections of articles injected in the feed around larger news events or topics. These changes were able to increase longer sessions by 6.5%, scroll depth by 23% and engagement with articles by 3%. Led engineers and cross functional team to incorporate signals and content from the social graph as a differentiator for the News Tab. Delivered utilizing content from public figures and surfacing topics and articles popular on Facebook to the surface, leading to an increase in user retention, higher quality content and longer sessions on the surface.

Education

• Drexel University

  Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science

  2002 — 2007