Staff Software Engineer · Seattle, WA

Arun
Karthick
Manickam

Building the future of Ads & AI at Meta. Ex-Googler. Innovator. Author. 10+ years shipping at scale.

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01 — About

Engineer.
Innovator.
Author.

10+ Years in Industry
3 Big Tech Companies
5+ Patents & Publications
1B+ Users Impacted

I'm a Staff Software Engineer at Meta leading backend engineering across Facebook Ads, Monetization, and AI/ML systems. Previously, I was a Software Engineering Team Lead at Google working on Fuchsia — Google's next-generation OS.

My career spans cloud-scale distributed systems, mobile platforms, AI/ML infrastructure, and full-stack product development. I've shipped products used by billions of people across Meta and Google.

I hold a US Patent in Machine Learning & Predictive Analytics (US10109171B1), have 5+ defensive publications in the AI/ML space, and am currently authoring a technical book on Distributed Systems with C++ for Packt Publishing.

Distributed Systems AI / ML Ads Engineering Backend Infrastructure Cloud Platforms Technical Author

02 — Experience

Where I've
Built Things

Meta Oct 2023 — Present

Software Engineering Lead

Seattle, Washington

Leading backend engineering for Facebook Ads and the broader Ads Ecosystem. Working at the intersection of machine learning, monetization, and large-scale distributed systems that power advertising for billions of users globally.

Backend Facebook Ads ML / AI Monetization Distributed Systems
Google Jun 2019 — Oct 2023

Software Engineering Team Lead

San Francisco Bay Area

Led an engineering team on Fuchsia — Google's next-generation, capability-based operating system. Worked across OS frameworks, UI layers, and platform infrastructure targeting the next billion users.

Fuchsia OS Platform Engineering Team Lead Systems
PayPal May 2018 — Jun 2019

Software Engineer

Scottsdale, Arizona

Designed and built a full-stack web application for PayPal's SRE organization to track product changes and generate change records. Implemented SSO with 2FA, CI/CD pipelines, and microservices architecture.

Python Node.js Angular Java MongoDB Jenkins
Symantec Jun 2015 — Jul 2017

Senior Software Development Engineer

Chennai, India

Full-stack product developer on Norton consumer security products within an Agile Scrum team at Symantec's Norton Engineering Centre.

C# .NET React Python Java Cassandra REST APIs
ASU Nov 2017 — Aug 2018

Business Intelligence Developer

Phoenix, Arizona

Built BI dashboards and data pipelines for the Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering's Enterprise Analytics and Data Services group.

C# .NET Python Splunk Tableau MS BI Suite

03 — Skills

Technical
Expertise

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Languages
C++
Python
Java
C# .NET
JavaScript / TypeScript
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Distributed Systems
Large-scale Backend
Capacity Planning
Reliability Engineering
Microservices
Event-driven Architecture
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AI / Machine Learning
ML Infrastructure
Predictive Analytics
Sentiment Analysis
Topic Mining
Health Sensor Data
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Databases
Cassandra
MongoDB
PostgreSQL / MySQL
DynamoDB
SQL Server
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Cloud & Infrastructure
Google Cloud Platform
AWS
Jenkins CI/CD
Splunk
Docker / Kubernetes
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Frameworks & Tools
React
Node.js / Express
Spring Boot
Angular
Tableau

04 — IP & Research

Patents &
Publications

US Patent · US10109171B1
Machine Learning and Predictive Analytics in Health Monitoring & Parental Controls
Improved parental control, cyberbullying, and drug use detection by mapping health sensor data and micro-expression sensing to sentiment analysis and topic mining of viewed social media posts.
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Patent
Systems and Methods for Digitally Verified Graphical Elements
Novel approach to digital asset verification and integrity assurance in graphical system interfaces.
Publication
Automated Travel Sharing Feature for a Social Media Platform
Defensive publication describing automated context-aware travel content sharing within social platforms.
Publication
Social Activity Planning — In Meta Platforms
System design and implementation of coordinated social activity discovery and planning features.
Publication
A Social Media Platform Shopping Mode
Architectural and UX framework for a dedicated commerce and shopping experience within social media.
Research Paper
Enhancing Privacy Preservation for Academic Management System (EPPAMS) in Cloud
Research on secure cloud-based academic management systems with robust privacy-preserving mechanisms.

05 — Education

Academic
Foundation

Master of Science
Arizona State University
Computer Science · Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering
Bachelor of Technology
Anna University, Chennai
Information Technology

06 — Contact

Let's
Connect

Open to interesting conversations, collaborations, and technical discussions.

marunkarthick1@gmail.com LinkedIn GitHub (425) 553-6100