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Chanel Johnson
Ex-Meta Senior Software Engineer & Startup Founding Engineer
Senior Software Engineer · Alexandria, VA
Open to advisory
Product · Engineering & Tech · Leadership & Strategy
Makes warm intros to
5
Hours / month
About Chanel
Chanel Johnson is an experienced software engineer and technical advisor with expertise spanning early-stage startup MVPs to hyper-scale consumer applications. As a Senior Software Engineer at Meta, she architected cross-app frameworks and performance optimizations serving billions of users across Instagram, Messenger, and Facebook. She was also the founding engineer at Mandy, taking their platform from zero to production and implementing AI-driven RAG pipelines. Chanel advises founders on system architecture, zero-to-one product development, LLM integrations, and scaling engineering practices.
Skills
Experience
job
Senior Software Engineer
Meta
Architected cross-app configuration and performance frameworks across Instagram, Facebook, and Messenger serving billions of users.
job
Upper School Computer Science Teacher & Technology Integrator
St. Stephen's and St. Agnes School
Teaching AP Computer Science Principles, AP Computer Science A, and AP Cybersecurity to high school students.
education
Undergraduate Student
Brown University
B.A. in Computer Science (Class of 2020).
job
Founding Frontend Engineer
Mandy
Founding engineer establishing React and TypeScript architecture and building RAG pipelines with OpenAI and Supabase pgvector.