ALEX AHN

Full-Stack AI Engineer • Content Creator (20K+ Subs)

EXPERIENCE

Instagram

Menlo Park, CA
Senior Staff Software Engineer
Jul 2026Present
  • Building Enterprise Brain for Agent Transformations
Staff Software Engineer
Jan 2023Jun 2026
  • Tech Lead for GenAI Ads Product Experiences (2025 Q3 earnings call-out).
  • Leading TL for IG Ads Product Experiences across Creative, Advertiser, and Demand strategies, supporting 3+ teams (20+ eng).
  • Launched Advantage+ Creative, AI/ML-powered solution for Ads Performance (2023 Q3 earnings call-out).
Senior Software Engineer
Jan 2021Dec 2022
  • Lead TL for 8+ core creative features on Instagram Ads Products.
  • Launched 12+ Instagram Ads Creative Products across cross-functional teams, supporting 7+ engineers.
  • Built Instagram Ads Preview framework on Ads Manager from scratch.
Software Engineer
Sep 2018Dec 2020
  • Developed IG Ads products across full-stack and multiple interfaces (Ads Manager, API).
  • Launched Instagram Explore Ads as new ad placement.
  • Built ads creation reliability framework, preventing 6+ critical revenue regressions.

Moloco

Palo Alto, CA
Software Engineer Intern
May 2017May 2018
  • Collaborated in building a mobile DSP infrastructure (Go) and data pipelines (Java, Python).
  • Led on creating the internal tools system to simplify and automate over 40% of the campaign operations.
  • Launched mobile game tracking SDK written in multi-threading (Unity, and JavaScript).
  • Built an interactive Creative Manager on web for external advertisers (React & Redux).
  • Contributed in constructing campaign management API for client-side products.

Johns Hopkins University

Baltimore, MD
Research Assistant
Sept 2016May 2017
  • Created data analytical web application for the Oracle project using Django and React.
  • Developed various machine learning prediction models in Python and R, using crawled MLB Gameday database.
  • Designed unique features, automated model trainings and performance evaluations using cross-validation and ROC.

CONTENT CREATOR

Built multi-platform digital presence to deepen understanding of content strategy and advertising effectiveness, directly supporting product development work in Instagram Ads.

YouTube(180,000+ subscribers)

Creator of AI tools and career development content, demonstrating expertise in audience engagement, content optimization, and digital marketing strategies

Key Achievements:

  • Achieved growth to over 180K subscribers within 2 years from start
  • Ran 5+ branded content partnerships with partners
  • Built engaged community across multiple platforms: 10,000+ Threads followers and 3,000+ LinkedIn connections
  • Apply content creation insights to inform ad product development and creative strategy decisions at Instagram

EDUCATION

Johns Hopkins University

Baltimore, MD
Bachelor of Science, in Computer Science, Applied Mathematics and Statistics
May 2018
Cumulative GPA: 3.93/4.00 (a member of UPE honor society)
Relevant Coursework: Machine Learning, Networks, Parallel Programming, Data Mining, Information Retrieval, Algorithms, Data Structures, Mobile Apps, Video Games, Statistics, Probability, Optimization, Linear Algebra

PROJECTS

AutoKliq

Mar 2026

Built an AI tool that turns video ideas into YouTube thumbnails.

Created a FastCampus course on AI agents and workflows; generated KRW 100M+ in revenue.

Created a FastCampus course on ChatGPT for work; generated KRW 300M+ in revenue.

MediBlock (1st Place Overall Project for HopHacks 2018)

April 2018

Built a blockchain web app to decentralize medical treatment costs.

MAVI (Best Healthcare Project Award for HopHacks 2017)

Feb 2017

Built an AI mobile app using NLP and computer vision to assist visually impaired users.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Full-stack engineer capable of working with any programming language, framework, or technology stack.

(React, React Native, TypeScript, JavaScript, Python, Node.js, PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB, Firebase, Django, Flask, FastAPI, Java, C#, Go, PHP, GraphQL, Relay, REST API, AWS, GCP, Azure, Docker, Kubernetes, Git, Redis, Next.js, Vue.js, Angular, Swift, Kotlin, C++, Tailwind CSS, Redux, TensorFlow, PyTorch)