Rodrigo Schmidt
Entrepreneur, Investor, Advisor, Tinkerer. Former leader at Meta/Instagram/Facebook.
- Role
- Co-founder CTO at Vetto Ai
- Location
- San Francisco, CA, US
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About Rodrigo Schmidt
Experienced leader supporting hundreds of engineers. Startup investor and advisor. Worked on many Facebook products and teams over more than 11 years with a short startup break in the middle. Built and led Instagram\'s Engagement team (Feed, Search, Explore, and more). Currently leading Instagram\'s engineering efforts in Monetization, Shopping, Creators and Discovery.
Experience
Co-founder CTO
Jan 2025 — Present · San Francisco, CA, US
Education
Universidade Federal do Rio Grande - FURG
B.S.E., Computer Engineering
1996 — 2000
Universidade Estadual de Campinas
M.S., Computer Science
2001 — 2003
EPFL
PhD, Computer Science
2003 — 2007
Skills
- Distributed Systems
- Start-Ups
- Software Development
- Python
- Scalability
- Software Engineering
- Replication
- Team Management
- Distributed Algorithms
- Hadoop
- Mobile Devices
- Databases
- Computer Science
- Java
- Algorithms
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