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10 Meta engineering directors
These ten current Meta engineering directors hold director-level engineering roles at Meta. A reader can learn how engineering directors work at Meta from people who have held the role.
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01—10Ashish Gandhe
LinkedInExperience: Director of Engineering · Meta
Director of Engineering at Meta since February 2025, based in Bellevue, Washington; the profile says Ashish Gandhe leads the Video consumption relevance organization, responsible for improving video recommendations. At Meta Ashish Gandhe was also Senior Engineering Manager (2021–2025) and Engineering Manager (2019–2021), and was Principal Group Engineering Manager at Microsoft (2016–2019).
Lluís Garcia-Pueyo
LinkedInExperience: Director of Engineering · Meta
Director of Engineering at Meta since September 2025, and also held a Director of Engineering row at Meta from 2017 to 2025; the profile says Lluís Garcia-Pueyo is building the Meta AI Business Assistant in Ads Manager and Business Support Home and in the past led the Facebook Trust & Safety ranking organization. Lluís Garcia-Pueyo was also Staff Software Engineer, TLM at Google (2012–2017).
Marek Latuskiewicz
LinkedInExperience: Director of Engineering - AI Hardware & AI Efficiency · Facebook
Director of Engineering - AI Hardware & AI Efficiency at Facebook since January 2025; the profile says Marek Latuskiewicz takes care of AMD, Nvidia and in-house GPU enablement and co-design on both the modelling and hardware side. At Facebook Marek Latuskiewicz was also Engineering Director, RTC (Real Time Communication) Media and Quality (2020–2026) and Engineering Director, Video Infrastructure (2016–2020).
Neeraj Agrawal
LinkedInExperience: Senior Director of Engineering · Meta
Senior Director of Engineering at Meta since February 2026, a role the profile lists in the Engineering and Technical department at director level. At Meta Neeraj Agrawal was also Director of Engineering (2023–2026) and Engineering Manager (2018–2023), and was Engineering Manager at Quora (2014–2018).
Oliver Pell
LinkedInExperience: Engineering Director, Product Risk & Compliance · Meta
Engineering Director, Product Risk & Compliance at Meta since March 2025, based in London. At Meta Oliver Pell was also Engineering Director, Pro Platform (2022–2025) and Engineering Director, Portal (2020–2022), and at Facebook was Engineering Director, Collaboration/Productivity (2019–2020) and Engineering Manager, Collaboration (2014–2019).
Prakash Passanha
LinkedInExperience: Director of Engineering · Meta
Director of Engineering at Meta since July 2026, in a role the profile places in Menlo Park; the profile says Prakash Passanha leads monetization of non-Ads products for Meta, including Meta One Subscriptions. At Meta Prakash Passanha was also Senior Engineering Manager (2022–2026) and Engineering Manager (2019–2022), and was Director of Engineering, Cards at LendUp (2017–2018).
Tali Messing
LinkedInExperience: Director of Engineering · Meta
Director of Engineering at Meta since July 2018, based in Tel Aviv; the profile says Tali Messing is Engineering Director of the Lite Interfaces org (12 teams, a rollup of about 130 engineers) covering FB Lite, IG Lite and Mobile Web. Tali Messing was also R&D Manager - Data and Interface Teams at IBM (2015–2018) and Staff Software Developer at Qualcomm (2011–2014).
Vibhor Rastogi
LinkedInExperience: Director of Engineering · Meta
Director of Engineering at Meta since August 2024; the profile says Vibhor Rastogi, as Director of Engineering, Business Messaging, leads the monetization of Meta's messaging platforms (WhatsApp, Messenger, Instagram). Vibhor Rastogi was also Engineering Manager at Facebook (2017–2024), Senior Staff Data Scientist at Twitter (2013–2017) and Research Scientist at Google (2012–2013).
Wen Shi
LinkedInExperience: Director of Engineering · Meta
Director of Engineering at Meta since June 2024, in a role the profile places in Menlo Park; the profile says Wen Shi leads an engineering organization, and the headline names Voice-First & Multimodal AI at Meta Superintelligence Labs. At Meta Wen Shi was also Senior Engineering Manager (2022–2024), Engineering Manager (2018–2022) and Software Engineer (2015–2018).
Ying Zhang
LinkedInExperience: Director of Engineering · Meta
Director of Engineering at Meta since August 2026; the profile says Ying Zhang leads the Core Networking Systems organization at Meta, responsible for the software-defined networking (SDN) platforms. Ying Zhang also lists Senior Engineering Manager at Meta from 2022 with no end date, and was Senior Engineering Manager at Facebook (2018–2022) and Research Manager and Senior Research Scientist at Hewlett Packard Enterprise (2014–2017).
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Questions to take into the conversation
- 01How does an engineering director at a large technology company set priorities across several teams?
- 02What changes when an engineering manager moves into a director role at a company of this size?
- 03How do engineering directors measure whether their organization is delivering the right work?
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