Engineering Leader

Omer Azam

UC Berkeley CS grad turned Senior Engineering Manager with over a decade of experience building high-scale production infrastructure and AI-native platform teams at Meta, TikTok, Twitch, and Moody's.

Bay Area, CA
exp — 10+ years
focus — AI · Infrastructure · Scale
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About

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# Senior Engineering Manager
I build teams and platforms at the intersection
of AI systems, production infrastructure, and developer velocity.

Career spanning Meta, TikTok, Twitch, and Moody's
from financial risk engines to live-streaming infrastructure
to LLM-powered developer tools at org-wide scale.

# Cal Bears, Class of 2014
UC Berkeley — Computer Science 🐻
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Experience

Meta
Engineering Manager / Multi-Pod Lead — Wearables System Health
2022 — Present

Leading AI pods across multiple wearables products including Ray-Ban Meta, Neural Band, and Orion AR Glasses. Architected an org-wide LLM-based debugging platform with automated root cause analysis and diff generation. Served as reliability and system health DRI spanning Wearables, VR, and Metaverse orgs — defining SLOs, leading incident response, and driving platformized shared infrastructure.

LLM Platform Context Engineering Automated RCA Multi-Product Cross-Org DRI
TikTok
Engineering Manager — Creation Product Infrastructure
2021 — 2022

Built a 0-to-1 team across creation product infra, reliability/efficiency, and developer infrastructure for global TikTok. Supported product teams across the creation ecosystem while establishing team charter, roadmapping frameworks, and a high-velocity hiring pipeline.

0 → 1 Team Build Global Scale Dev Infrastructure
Twitch
Engineering Manager — Viewer Live Infrastructure
2019 — 2021

Led a team owning viewer products, live streams, user graph, content permissioning, and browse — critical-path services with 24/7 on-call. Drove the team from initial baselines to multi-9s reliability through capacity planning, incident response, and architectural hardening.

Live Infrastructure Multi-9s Reliability 24/7 On-Call
Twitch
Senior Software Engineer — Viewer Experience
2017 — 2019

Technical lead for notifications platform redesign and company-wide A/B experimentation architecture. Built high-scale services across the viewer experience stack.

Golang React / TypeScript GraphQL
Moody's Analytics
Team Lead / Senior Software Engineer — Risk & Stress Testing
2014 — 2017

Led a team of engineers building the company's core risk stress testing software. Hand-picked to tech lead the next-generation CECL (credit loss forecasting) platform — the company's first in category, driving emerging FASB regulatory compliance.

Financial Risk CECL / FASB Enterprise
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Flagship Project

Featured Work

LLM-Powered Debugging Platform

Architected and drove an org-wide AI-powered debugging platform at Meta, integrating crash, memory, and reliability telemetry with LLM-based automated root cause analysis and diff generation. Led the context engineering program across the wearables organization, enabling engineering teams to receive actionable RCA or automated fixes for issues spanning multiple concurrent product lines.

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Education

Oski the Bear — UC Berkeley mascot
University of California, Berkeley
Bachelor of Arts — Computer Science
College of Letters & Science
Go Bears!
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Technologies & Skills

LLMs & AI Systems
Context Engineering Automated RCA Human Evaluation LLM Integration
Distributed Systems
Production Infrastructure SLOs & Incident Response Capacity Planning High-Scale Services
Languages & Frameworks
Golang Python React / TypeScript GraphQL Java
Platform & Data
AWS Spark Microservices CI/CD
Leadership
0 → 1 Team Building Multi-Pod Management Cross-Org DRI Org-Wide Adoption
Domain Expertise
AI Developer Tools Live Streaming Infra Financial Risk / CECL Wearables / AR
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