About

Ken Garber is a Software Engineer at Facebook with over 4 years of relevant experience. He has a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science from Boston University, where he specialized in software engineering. As a Software Engineer Intern at Facebook, Ken worked on the Distributed Queue Service, which handles hundreds of billions of items daily and supports critical Facebook services. He added production features to the queue service, with emphasis on Python for tooling and modern and performant C++ and MySQL for the actual distributed queue service. Ken also performed on-call duties relating to queue management, namely bulk deletions of items in a scalable manner. Prior to Facebook, Ken was a Software Engineer Intern at ITG, where he created technical specifications for and developed a backend service using C++ messaging middleware with Pub/Sub capabilities. Ken's tech stack includes software engineering, Python, MySQL, and backend development. He is a highly skilled software engineer with a passion for solving complex problems. His experience working on critical Facebook services has given him a unique perspective on developing scalable and performant software.