Youth online safety
Age-appropriate experiences, parental supervision, guardian relationships, and safety interventions that account for young people’s autonomy.
Software Engineer
Mrunal Dave
Youth online safety · Privacy engineering · Digital well-being · Trustworthy platforms
I am a software engineer whose work focuses on building safer, more private, and more trustworthy consumer technology. At Meta, I have worked on youth safety, parental-supervision experiences, privacy, and large-scale platform infrastructure across social and immersive products.
My professional interests sit at the intersection of software systems and their effects on people: how technical design can support safety, autonomy, privacy, and accountability in products used at scale.
Areas of expertise
Privacy engineering
Privacy-aware system design, identity and access controls, information leakage, and unintended inference from observable product behavior.
Trust and safety systems
Infrastructure that translates safety policies and regulatory requirements into dependable behavior across complex consumer products.
Responsible deployment
Evaluating and operating safeguards across products, platforms, jurisdictions, and organizational boundaries.
Experience & education
Meta
Software Engineer
2021–Present
As a member of the original engineering team, built core guardian-verification and supervision infrastructure for Meta Family Center, launched on Instagram in 2022 and later expanded across Meta products.
Goldman Sachs
Software Engineer
2017–2021
Built Goldman Sachs’ first centralized expense-management dashboard, unifying firm-wide operating-expense data previously managed through legacy systems and spreadsheets.
New York University
M.S. in Computer Science
2015–2017
Graduate study in computer science.
Contact
For professional service, technical writing, research collaboration, or other inquiries, email hello@mrunaldave.com.