It won’t matter how many programmers are out there, as long as you are exceptional.
Tali Messing, engineering manager at Facebook Tel Aviv.
One of the engineering managers leading the development of FB Lite, an app for low-end smartphones and emerging markets used by over 400 million people.
Tali’s main responsibility is leadership: setting vision and strategy; providing technical support and mentorship of the engineers reporting to her; and overseeing the professional growth and performance of her team. On the side, she’s passionate about innovation and has about a dozen pending patent applications.
Originally from Vienna, Austria, Tali attended high school in the US and received her BA in computer science from Maalot Yerushalayim. For the last 12 years, she’s worked in both engineering and management at various high-tech companies in Israel, including SintecMedia, Qualcomm, IBM, and now Facebook.
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