Sameer Tiwari

Sameer Tiwari is a Principal Engineer/Architect at Meta (formerly Facebook) who has been working in this role since March 2021.1 He is based in Apex, North Carolina, United States, and has over 500 connections on LinkedIn.1

Professional Experience

Sameer has an extensive background in technology and engineering:

Current Role at Meta:

• Working on the world's largest scale-out storage system and the Quest VR headset
• Led efforts on storage, including onboarding a proprietary database and compressing H.264 videos
• Currently focused on optimizing performance on resource-constrained VR devices using Dynamic Resource Allocation1

Previous Positions:

• Infrastructure CTO at MariaDB Corporation (October 2019 - March 2021)
• Principal Architect - Data Platform and Services at Salesforce (December 2014 - October 2019)
• Hadoop Architect at Pivotal Inc (January 2012 - December 2014)
• VP of Engineering at MyQuire Inc (May 2008 - September 2008)
• Engineering Manager at Zantaz (2006 - 2008)
• Senior Engineering Manager at Sun Microsystems Inc (1998 - 2002)1

Education

• Masters in Computer Science from IMT (1987 - 1990)
• Bachelor's in Electronics from Delhi University (1984 - 1987)1

Skills and Expertise

Sameer is known for his expertise in:

• Large-scale distributed systems
• Storage technologies
• Cloud computing (AWS and GCP)
• Database management systems
• Performance optimization
• Team leadership and management

Throughout his career, Sameer has demonstrated a strong track record in leading engineering teams, developing innovative solutions, and working on cutting-edge technologies in various domains of computer science and software engineering.1