Ryan Peterman
Building the podcast & ergonomic keyboard I wish existed
ex-software engineer @instagram, @meta
About me
- Got promoted to Staff at Instagram 3 years out of college through a combination of luck and hard work (Mark Zuckerberg talking about part of my Staff promo work on his IG and FB - technical blog post I wrote here).
- Shared what I learned on my Substack and grew it to 100k subscribers.
- Started a podcast and quit my job to work on it full time. Interviewing top technical folks to share their learnings with the industry.
- I'm also building an ergonomic keyboard because I didn't see any options that fit what I wanted.
Posts
- 2026I Quit My Job
- 2025What To Buy That Improves Quality of Life
- 2024Engineering Confidence
- 2024How To Get Promoted (Without Getting Lucky)
- 2024Scaling Yourself
- 2023Why Engineers Need To Write
- 2022Reducing Instagram’s Basic Video Compute Time by 94%
- 2021Making Instagram Video Ads Performant
- 2021Cutting Threads’ Send Latency in Half
- 2020Video Processing Latency Improvements