Welcome to adaptUp podcast where you will hear about leaders and experts who have lived your future.

I am your host, Swapna Savant and also founder of adaptUp.

Our Today's guests is Joao Antunes. In this episode we talk about their journey as they moved to Individual Contributor from management. We go dipper into the challenges during the navigation and what made them take this step.

Joao is a staff software engineer at Meta, where he works on the real-time communication stack used by Facebook Messenger, WhatsApp, Instagram, Portal, and the rest of the Metaverse.

He started his career as an academic researcher, where he pursued a master masters and a PhD in network security. After a decade in research, Joao moved to Silicon Valley and transitioned to a software engineer role. He worked at a couple of startups in San Francisco, eventually transitioning to engineering management, and later joining Twitter as an Engineering Manager. So, Joao is now transitioning again, but this time, back to an IC role as a software engineer.

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