About

Lukas Camra is an accomplished Engineering Manager at Instagram with over 9 years of relevant experience in the field of software engineering. Since 2016, Lukas has been contributing to Instagram's Media Infrastructure team, which powers all of Instagram's products such as Feed, Stories, IGTV, Direct, Threads, Ads, and Live. As an Engineering Manager, he leads the team in focusing primarily on best-in-class performance measured through reliability, latency, and visual quality across images, videos, and Live streaming at Instagram. Lukas has a Master of Science (M.Sc.) degree in Computer Science from Baylor University, and he also holds a Graduate degree in Computer Science and Software Engineering from Czech Technical University in Prague. Additionally, he has an Undergraduate degree in Computer Science and Software Engineering from Czech Technical University in Prague and Kansas State University. Before joining Instagram, Lukas worked as a Software Development Engineer at a9.com, where he was responsible for developing new features, bug fixing, and code refactoring, among other things. He also worked as a Senior J2EE Developer at ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest, where he was responsible for the transition from JBoss Seam 2 architecture to J2EE 6 architecture and upgrade of all related technologies. Lukas has extensive experience in various technologies such as Selenium, Web, and infra, among others. He is also a skilled Senior Software Engineer and Software Engineer. Lukas has contributed to notable engineering blog posts originating from the Instagram Media Infrastructure team, including Improving Instagram's Music Audio Quality and Video Upload Latency Improvements at Instagram. Lukas is a highly skilled and accomplished Engineering Manager with a proven track record of success in the field of software engineering. He is passionate about developing new technologies and contributing to the overall media infrastructure stack, which includes ingestion, video processing, and playback.