David Chou

I’m an infrastructure-focused Staff Software Engineer with deep expertise in global load balancing, failover orchestration, distributed tracing, and production-scale load testing at Meta. I own technical strategy and multi-year roadmapping to support Meta-scale availability and capacity planning.

At Meta, I lead cross-functional initiatives across disaster recovery, site reliability, capacity, and traffic infrastructure teams. I drive architectural decisions and technical problem-solving for organization-spanning challenges, including automated failover evolution and advanced traffic orchestration under extreme failure scenarios.

I act as a primary technical backstop and influencer, scoping high-ambiguity projects and partnering with EMs/PMs to define priorities that ladder into broader infrastructure objectives. I also elevate team performance through deep mentorship of senior engineers and by setting and enforcing engineering excellence standards.

I champion CI/CD, observability, and load testing strategies at org scale, helping reduce recovery times and increase confidence in production changes while maintaining Meta’s high-reliability bar. Earlier, I led development of Canopy, Meta’s distributed performance tracing system, spanning frontend visualization, backend instrumentation, and trace aggregation at massive scale.