JACOB ALOYSIOUS · SINGAPORE

Engineering leadership. Reliable platforms. Applied AI.

Software Engineering Manager at Meta, with 20 years across enterprise platforms, developer tools, and semiconductor software.

I build durable engineering systems and develop people and teams through clear ownership, pragmatic architecture, and reliable execution. My recent work includes rebuilding an enterprise mobile product and introducing AI-enabled experiences.

Meta · KLA · Atmel · Mindtree

Jacob Aloysious

Technical & people leader · Software architecture
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Selected leadership impact

Product delivery, people development, and influence across teams.

CSAT 58% → 71%

From platform to product

Led a ground-up rebuild of an internal mobile product supporting 70+ applications through partnerships with 20+ teams. Improved successful sessions from 96% to 99.5%, while delivering with half the previous team size.

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Cross-team product and technical leadership

Growing teams

Developing engineers and leaders

Coached and mentored engineers, helping them grow their careers, including entry-level-to-Staff progression. Built a high-trust team and developed leaders who took greater technical ownership.

People development and team leadership

3 global regions

Reliability beyond one team

Led a Reliability Summit across EMEA, APAC, and NORAM, advancing practices within a VP-level organization of 800+ engineers.

Cross-region organizational influence

Applied AI

Product experience, hands-on evaluation, and governed engineering workflows.

ENTERPRISE PRODUCT WORK

AI-enabled mobile experiences

At Meta, introduced an AI-enabled voice assistant for hands-free communication and podcast-style daily briefings within an internal mobile product.

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HANDS-ON LEARNING PROJECT

An agent you can evaluate

Built a fictional support-agent demo with Codex, server-enforced policy, human review, and layered evaluations. Traced failures across the application, tools, and model to guide targeted improvements.

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Fictional data; a learning project, not a production support service.

CONFERENCE DEMONSTRATION

Governed engineering knowledge

Designed a field-issue workflow for my KLA talk: preserve evidence, share only approved context, and review proposed fixes. Only verified learning becomes reusable team knowledge.

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A simulated scenario tailored to semiconductor engineering, not a deployed KLA system.

Leadership experience

 
 
 
 
 

Software Engineering Manager

Meta

Dec 2021 – Present Singapore

Lead engineering for an enterprise application platform, combining people management with hands-on technical leadership. Shape product strategy, guide architecture, and drive execution across partner teams.

Rebuilt an internal mobile application using React Native, Expo, Relay, and GraphQL. Introduced an AI-enabled voice assistant for hands-free communication and podcast-style daily briefings.

Develop engineers and leaders, deliver complex platform changes, and advance reliability practices across regions.

 
 
 
 
 

Software Engineering Manager

KLA

Feb 2016 – Dec 2021 Chennai, India

Led agile engineering teams delivering production software for eBeam inspection and review systems, in collaboration with US-based engineering groups.

Owned feature definition, architecture, and delivery. Introduced continuous integration and test-driven development across the division, and developed engineers through coaching and design and code reviews.

 
 
 
 
 

Senior Software Engineer

Atmel Corp

Jan 2010 – Jan 2016 Chennai, India
Led engineers delivering developer products including Atmel Studio IDE and start.atmel.com, contributing across architecture, technical leadership, and execution.
 
 
 
 
 

Senior Software Engineer

Mindtree Ltd

Sep 2006 – Jan 2010 Chennai, India
Contributed to product development within Mindtree’s R&D division, serving North American customers.

Speaking

Jacob presenting at KLA's NEOTERIX Engineering Conference

KLA · NEOTERIX 2026

AI-First Second Brain for Engineering Teams

A talk on preserving engineering context, governing AI memory, and applying AI to a customer-specific field-issue workflow.

Presented at a conference attended by 800–1,000 engineers. The 75-minute talk was followed by more than 30 minutes of enthusiastic Q&A.

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Selected writing

How I think about leadership, engineering, and applied AI.

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Beyond work

I enjoy reading, photography, badminton, cycling, and swimming. Curiosity and the habit of learning carry across my work and life.

Goodreads · GitHub · Stack Overflow

Let’s connect

I enjoy engineering leadership roles where product complexity, platform debt, reliability risk, and organisational fragmentation are slowing execution, and where strong engineering leadership can materially improve both business outcomes and team health.

For engineering leadership opportunities, speaking, or a conversation about enterprise platforms and applied AI, reach me by email or LinkedIn.

Based in Singapore, and open to engineering leadership opportunities across EMEA and APAC.