Glenn Conner

Software Engineering Manager

Grew and supported teams of 15+ building tools and infra to ensure high performance and reliability of Web & JavaScript applications across Meta including Facebook.com, Instagram.com, VSCode@Meta, Oculus, Workplace, & Ads Manager.

• Formed the first dedicated Web Reliability team at Meta & implemented standardized user centric reliability metrics across all of Meta's Web Apps. Worked with dozens of product teams to drive down %SAD users from 30+% in some cases to <5%.
• Built automated performance instrumentation and developer tooling for JavaScript&React applications that enabled the successful rollout of the new Facebook.com frontend stack in 2020.
• Developed MemLab the worlds first JavaScript Memory leak detection framework for diagnosing leaks at scale. This reduced OOM crashes on Facebook.com by over 50%, delivered 10's of $millions in additional ad revenue. MemLab was open sourced in 2022 (https://engineering.fb.com/2022/09/12/open-source/memlab) and has received 3k+ stars on Github and gets ~25k weekly downloads on NPM.
• Grew a portfolio of developer tools used daily by thousands of Meta engineers to quickly detect, root-cause, & mitigate application health regressions.

Staff Software engineer/Tech Lead Manager

Tech Lead then Manager of the Instagram Web infrastructure team responsible for JavaScript&Python build & developer tooling for ensuring efficient, reliable, and performant delivery of Instagram.com.

• Scaled the team from myself to a team of 5 engineers.
• improved build times 40x by adapting React Natives Metro build system for web usage (and helping open source Metro along the way) & built infrastructure allowing front end deploys to move from ad-hoc to continuous.
• Improved the performance of the Instagram.com feed by more than 50% (https://instagram-engineering.com/making-instagram-com-faster-part-1-62cc0c327538).

Staff Software engineer

Full stack engineer using Python and JavaScript. Technical lead for the Brocades Services Director product web UI. Architect and technical lead for a next generation web UI framework adopted across all Brocade software products based on Node.js, React.js & Redux.

Senior Software engineer

Responsible for building technology acquired from Aptimize into the Riverbed product portfolio. Wrote reliable, high performance server code in C++ for an optimizer proxy that analyzed web traffic and transformed the content to improve front-end performance. Co-authored a US patent related to optimizing delivery of JavaScript web assets. Built a distributed cross-platform test automation system using Node.js, Python, LXC, and Vagrant.

Software development engineer

First employee at Aptimize, a startup that created some of the worlds first automated runtime web performance optimization technology. I was involved in the design and development of the initial prototypes through to the final market ready products using C++ and C#. Sites including Microsofts Sharepoint.com saw performance improvements of over 2x without having to make any code-changes when using the Aptimize Web Accelerator. Aptimize was successfully acquired by Riverbed Technolgies in 2011.

Bachelor of Engineering with Honors

Majored in Software engineering. Graduated in top 5% of college of sciences at Massey University, awarded Massey Scholarship.

Conner G. et al. Transparently intercepting and optimizing resource requests. US-9825812-B2, Issued 2017 Nov 21.

Junkship - A game that utilizes procedural algorithms to automatically generate detailed 3D solar systems using using GPU processing. Written in C++, HLSL, & JavaScript in a custom 3D engine I developed.

A Raspberry Pi controlled Garden sprinkler system that can be controlled via a built in web UI or by HomeKit compatible Apps.

Holland B., Conner G., Huber K., Moulton V. Imputing supertrees and supernetworks from quartets. Systematic biology, 2007 Feb;56(1):57-67