Led the product strategy which grew the user base of instagram.com to 420M monthly active users and over 2B daily devices; established team within the Business organization to turn instagram.com into a $1B product by the end of 2023.

Grew Instagram Web from a team of eight engineers to an organization of 35. Support three teams, including directly supporting three managers and senior ICs:

* *Web Product*: Developing the core product experience of Instagram Web on mobile and desktop devices.

* *Web Infra*: Developing the core infrastructure (e.g. routing, data fetching, build and deployment, etc.) and enabling high performance, reliability, and efficiency of the site.

* *Bloks.js*: A home-grown, cross-platform framework that enables code sharing between mobile and web.

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Created two additional teams throughout the Instagram organization: the Equity team (which evangelizes equitable product development across the entire app) and the Accessibility team.

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Serve as the Site Lead for Front End Engineering hiring across New York, Boston, and DC; created the Instagram Women in Engineering Summit, which is now run annually.

Promoted from Front End Software Engineer to Engineering Manager to Senior Engineering Manager.

Instagram

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Graduated summa cum laude with distinction with degrees in Applied Mathematics and Music

Senior Engineering Manager

Implemented embeddable checkout experience for LinkedIn.com

Software Engineer

Developed 0-to-1 platform for property owners to list and manage their rental properties.

Led product roadmap for internal Google Cloud and SRE platform.
Created strategy of a web component catalog used across 300 applications within SRE and internal Google applications.

Empowering creativity - redefining the category of professional graphic design. For a long time professional graphic design has been dominated by large and complex solutions that required years of training to learn. Kittl is here to change that. With a platform that offers the depth of a desktop tool and an ease-of-use that sparks joy and creativity. Leveraging state of the art technology in software development and AI, Kittl has grown to millions of users and continues to innovate in design.

David Ressler

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