Brooks Cutter
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Principal TPM in Meta's AI Infrastructure org, where I drove the first production migration of a recommendation workload to next-generation LLM inference.

Principal TPM, AI Infrastructure Seattle, WA 8 issued patents · PMP BS CS, Eckerd College

Career timeline

2025—
LLM-powered content recommendations, proven in production

Coordinated cross-org execution of Meta's first production migration of a recommendation workload to next-generation LLM inference — aligning serving, acceleration, hardware, and efficiency partners across NVIDIA H100/H200 and AMD MI350X. Drove two first-of-their-kind LLM launches on Meta's ranking and search surfaces: a generative recommendation pipeline and a Llama-based search-relevance model replacing a legacy BERT system.

Manage 5 TPMs in AI Data and Responsible Engineering, where access-friction reliability work cut interrupted data queries from 35% to 1.4%.

~57%GPU footprint reduction
$253M/yrincremental Ads revenue
2first-of-kind LLM launches
2024—25
Llama dataset review — acknowledged in the whitepaper

Stood up Meta's third-party dataset review process from scratch, partnering with Legal to define the workflow. Aligned 252 AI researchers and a 48-person cross-functional team, cleared the backlog to zero against hard launch deadlines, and earned acknowledgment in the Llama whitepaper. Supported LlamaFirewall — Meta's open-source guardrails for AI agents — and drove 59 novel GenAI risk reviews as the space scaled inside the company.

Restructured the fact-gathering function and vendor mix, cutting contractor cost roughly 90% while improving output quality.

575dataset reviews
88%on the Llama critical path
$2.96M → $250Kannual contractor cost
2019—24
Founded Meta's API Governance program

Built Meta's post-Cambridge-Analytica API Governance program — the company's FTC consent-decree response — with oversight of API design, developer access controls, third-party app review, and regulator compliance for developer.facebook.com, one of the world's largest API platforms. Managed and led a team of 10 TPMs across a matrixed group of 159+ reviewers, and stayed technical enough to shape the direction of the platform projects rather than only running process.

The automation strategy behind it enabled 600+ product teams to ship third-party integrations roughly 90% faster, and was cited by Meta's Chief Product Officer as a company-wide benchmark for cross-functional execution. As Safeguard Owner for 20% of Meta's global privacy controls, consolidated 32 redundant safeguards and led FTC and EU regulator assessor responses.

92 → 5 daysAPI review cycle time
21,000+API risk reviews
10,000+ → ~6,000external API endpoints
2013—19
Three startups — mobile platforms, carriers, and identity

Syntonic — Director of Program Management. Delivered mobile data integrations for network operators across Asia and Africa, managing an India-based engineering team from requirements through carrier certification: 10 iOS/Android apps, 4 SDKs, multiple carrier integrations.

Mast Mobile — Principal Program Manager. Launched a dual-phone identity platform end-to-end across iOS, Android, web portals, carrier provisioning, VoIP, CRM, number porting, and fraud management.

m-ize — Senior Program Manager. Led delivery planning and offshore execution for customer implementations.

1996—2012
Microsoft — Windows Media, Zune Marketplace, and Xbox Music

Xbox Music — Principal Program Manager Architect. Expanded to 22 international markets across Xbox 360, Windows Phone, and Azure-based content processing, and integrated the acquired Musiwave business across Redmond and Paris engineering teams.

Zune Marketplace — launched the backend in 3 months, spanning content ingestion, encoding, encryption, delivery, and licensing.

Windows Media DRM — Group Program Manager directing 8 PMs across DRM strategy, record-label and movie-studio negotiations, and partner certification. Secured FCC Broadcast Flag approval by authoring Microsoft's technical submission, and drove standards engagement with AACS for Blu-ray and HD DVD.

Windows Media codecs — enabled Windows Media Audio on hundreds of portable player models via a codec porting kit and conformance-test program for ARM, TI DSP, and other embedded platforms.

Microsoft Consulting Services — advised Coca-Cola, Macy's, and Georgia-Pacific on Internet strategy. Microsoft Consultant of the Year, North America (1997).

Writing code

I don't only manage engineers. Claude Code and Codex are daily tools, and most weekends turn into an MCP server or a small utility that scratches an itch.

All of it on github.com/brooksc →

Patents & credentials

Patents
Eight issued, spanning digital rights management, licensing, device certificates, symmetric-key optimization, and member-based domain architecture.
Certification
Project Management Professional (PMP).
Education
B.S. Computer Science, Eckerd College.
Focus areas
LLM inference and serving efficiency · recommendation and ranking systems · GPU infrastructure migration · developer platforms and API governance · AI dataset governance and agent guardrails · regulator engagement · TPM organization leadership.