Samuel Platt

Samuel Platt is a Vice President at PDT Partners, with a robust background in software engineering and management. Previously, Samuel served as a Staff Software Engineer and Engineering Manager at Instagram, leading the monetization efforts for Instagram’s web ads and overseeing the Media & Entertainment Ads Team as a founding engineer. Prior experience includes a role as Senior Software Engineer at WhatsApp, where Samuel led compliance efforts with the FTC settlement and managed the WhatsApp Deletion Service. Early career experiences include internships at Yelp, Aerospace Corporation, and Altum, Inc., focusing on distributed systems, automation in Failure Mode Effect Analysis, and web development. Samuel holds a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science from Carnegie Mellon University.