Robert Sweeney
Founder, CEO, Engineering Leader
- Role
- Engineering Manager at Meta
- Location
- Mountain View, CA, US
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About Robert Sweeney
Startup Founder and Software Engineering Leader with experience shipping products to billions of users. Currently at Meta leading a team of ML engineers to build bleeding edge DNN models, LLMs, and agents to identify and take down millions of scam ads, posts, and accounts. Since joining, we\'ve reduced scams on Meta platforms by more than 50%, two years in a row. Expert in ML, LLMs, agents, feature engineering, data pipeline, evals, etc. Created the Netflix \"Are you still watching?\" popup, causing millions of people to question their life choices.
Experience
Engineering Manager
Feb 2024 — Present · Menlo Park, CA, US
Leading the engineering effort to eliminate scams on Facebook, Instagram, Threads and WhatsApp. Building ML and expert LLM agents to detect and remove scammy content and ban scam accounts- Led team of 15 ML/infra engineers and 50+ cross functional partners to reduce scams by 75% over 2 years, exceeding company goals by 130%- Built 6 expert level LLM agents (P90/R90) to automate the review of ads, posts, comments, photos, and videos for scams, fraud, and 4 other policy violations, saving over $250M/yr in human review spend- Drove significant business and efficiency gains by leading efficiency improvements to ML classifiers, saving $139M/year in opex- Achieved 100% financial regulatory compliance in 12 countries ahead of schedule- Led Product Management function for a team of 50+ for 9 months while PM was on leave- Hired 9 ML engineers (including 2 staff). Successfully coached 3 underperforming engineers back to high performance. Proactively managed out underperformers.
Education
Brigham Young University
BS
1998 — 2004
Skills
- Recruiting
- Tdd
- Javascript
- Business Intelligence
- Html
- C#
- .net
- Test Driven Development
- Sql Server
- Advanced Css
- Css
- Win32 Api
- Mvc
- Ajax
- C++
- Mentoring
- Start-Ups
- Agile
- Business Management
- Software as a Service (Saas)
- Agile Methodologies
- Management
- Silverlight
- Jquery
- Entrepreneurship
- Com
- Microsoft Sql Server
- Linq
- Fundraising
- Cloud Computing
- Win32
- Xml
- Web Services
- Sql
- Asp.net
- Software Development
- Scrum
- Asp.net Mvc
- Spanish
- Leadership
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