More than one billion people around the world use Instagram, and we’re proud to be bringing them closer to the people and things they love. Instagram inspires people to see the world differently, discover new interests, and express themselves.

Since launching in 2010, our community has grown at a rapid pace. Our teams are growing fast, too, and we’re looking for talent across engineering, product management, design, research, analytics, technical program management, operations, and more. In addition to our headquarters in Menlo Park, we have thriving offices in New York City and San Francisco where teams are doing impactful work every day.

Virginia Tech

University of Pune

Won the "Prize for Computer Science" after scoring the highest marks in the ISC board examinations for the subject in the entire school.

The Bishop's School

Software Engineer

Worked on the Remote Platforms team to build software that allowed both customers and employees to access Bloomberg services remotely.

• Graduate Research Assistant for a NASA-funded project to simulate fabrics for use in space.
• Graduate Teaching Assistant for a full-stack web development course in the Department of Computer Science, where students had to work with wireframes, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, PHP, and Amazon Web Services.
• Research Assistant for the Pamplin College of Business in the Department of Accounting & Information Systems, discovering and implementing ways to scrape the SEC website for relevant data.
• Teaching Assistant at the Pamplin College of Business in the Department of Business Information Technology, to assist students out with any and all technology-related problems.

Graduate Research And Teaching Assistant

• Worked with the new Narratives team, building a plugin to bring natural language generation capabilities into MicroStrategy's business intelligence and analytics suite.
• Over the course of the internship, I also sped up the load and render times of the stories, got rid of redundant data calls, and cleaned up the UI working around the many limitations of the internal framework.
• Discovered and cleared up a bottleneck leading to a 400% increase in the runtime speed of the plugin.

Software Engineer Intern

• Built a media server using Python and Django, that interfaced with swiftclient, FFmpeg, Ghostscript and ImageMagick, that could receive and save multiple formats of media (images, videos, and documents) and also convert them to browser-renderable formats.
• Created numerous front-end modules using JavaScript and ReactJS using the Flux architecture.
• Set up an event-based email notification system in Java within the Spring framework.
• Developed a POC using TensorFlow to automatically classify and tag images uploaded to the media server.
• Set up Linux servers to support required software, identified and extended open source libraries to fit project requirements, and assisted in the training of new recruits.

Senior Software Developer

Creating and designing apps and scripts for mobile, web and desktop.
http://www.sourabh.io/projects