Tim Rijavec - Professional Bio – coder.siTim Rijavec - Experience - Meta – coder.si
Meta

Meta

6 years 4 months

Accomplishments

  • Built and scaled the engineering systems that became the standard delivery platform for Meta's VS Code ecosystem, supporting 200+ extensions and thousands of engineers.
  • Eliminated hundreds of hours of annual manual testing and release effort through automated CI/CD, release orchestration, quality validation, health monitoring, and rollback systems.
  • Established Meta's extension testing strategy and created the VS Code E2E testing platform, standardizing quality validation across extension teams through reusable infrastructure and automated verification.
  • Defined the platform health, release-readiness, and operational governance models used to evaluate extension quality, deployment risk, and reliability across developer tooling and AI-powered engineering experiences.
  • Accelerated developer productivity by reducing extension build times by approximately 95%, introducing automated release workflows, and delivering tooling that improved deployment visibility and operational efficiency.
  • Improved platform reliability, security, and operational maturity through PRE programs, threat modeling, risk assessments, automated health monitoring, and engineering quality standards adopted across the IDE ecosystem.
  • Partnered across Developer Environments, Programming Languages, AI Tooling, Debugging, Code Search, Source Control, and Security organizations to deliver a consistent, reliable, and secure developer experience.

  • Senior Software Engineer - VS Code

    Jan 22 - Present4 years 6 months

    Seattle, WA

    Responsibilities

    • Own the architecture and operation of Meta's VS Code platform, including CI/CD, release automation, testing infrastructure, marketplace services, operational governance, and reliability systems.
    • Design and operate extension release workflows spanning canary, insiders, and stable channels through configuration-driven release management.
    • Build and maintain marketplace systems including extension publishing, discovery, installation, validation, governance, and third-party approval workflows.
    • Define platform quality standards, release-readiness criteria, operational metrics, testing strategies, and reliability programs.
    • Deliver developer productivity tooling, build system improvements, deployment automation, and platform APIs.
    • Partner with infrastructure, security, developer productivity, language tooling, debugging, code intelligence, and product organizations on platform evolution, reliability, and incident response.

    Accomplishments

    • Established the engineering systems and release processes that became the standard delivery path for Meta's VS Code extension ecosystem.
    • Onboarded 200+ extensions to fully automated release pipelines and reduced build times by approximately 95% through build modernization and parallelized infrastructure.
    • Built the organization's VS Code E2E testing platform and established extension testing standards adopted across teams.
    • Created platform-wide health measurement, release-readiness, and quality evaluation frameworks used to assess extension quality and deployment risk.
    • Delivered a complete extension marketplace ecosystem including publishing, discovery, installation, governance, validation, and developer environment integration.
    • Launched language-agnostic code navigation quality measurement (UPND) with automated quality analysis and anomaly detection across programming languages.
    • Led major platform migrations including marketplace health signal modernization and authentication improvements with minimal operational disruption.

    Stack

    • TypeScript
    • Hack
    • Python
    • JavaScript
    • React
    • React Native
    • VS Code
    • esbuild
    • Jest
    • Bash
    • Thrift
    • Ent Framework
    • Scuba
    • Chronicle

  • Senior Software Engineer - Code Search & Indexing

    Sep 21 - Dec 214 months

    London, UK

    Responsibilities

    • Build developer-facing portals, reporting systems, and visibility tooling for code indexing and repository intelligence.

    Accomplishments

    • Delivered the Glean indexer coverage portal, providing engineering-wide visibility into code indexing quality and repository coverage.
    • Built React-based reporting and visualization systems that improved platform adoption and operational transparency.
    • Improved developer understanding of code intelligence coverage through data-driven tooling and repository-level visibility.

    Stack

    • Hack
    • JavaScript
    • Python
    • Bash

  • Senior Software Engineer - Mobile Ads Manager

    Mar 20 - Aug 211 years 6 months

    London, UK

    Responsibilities

    • Develop advertiser-facing features for Meta's Ads Manager mobile application across React Native and native Android platforms.
    • Deliver campaign management, media workflows, analytics, visualization, and optimization experiences used by advertisers on Facebook and Instagram.
    • Partner with product, platform, and quality engineering teams on release quality, feature delivery, testing, and mobile infrastructure improvements.

    Accomplishments

    • Delivered React Native and Android features supporting campaign creation, media management, analytics, dark mode, charting, and video editing experiences for advertisers.
    • Contributed mobile platform capabilities and shared infrastructure improvements that increased maintainability and consistency across advertiser-facing experiences.
    • Led testing and release quality initiatives for managed-account workflows, improving reliability through collaboration with automated testing and platform engineering teams.

    Stack

    • React Native
    • Java
    • Kotlin
    • JavaScript
    • TypeScript
    • Hack
    • iOS
    • Android