Instasize Promotes Luca Meschiari to CTO
February 27, 2019
With experience from Italy, Australia and the U.S., Meschiari plans
to continue Instasize’s fast development of app features with a small,
focused team
SALT LAKE CITY–(BUSINESS WIRE)–lt;a href=”https://twitter.com/hashtag/Instasize?src=hash” target=”_blank”gt;#Instasizelt;/agt;–Instasize,
a visual toolkit for social media content creators, today announces that
Luca Meschiari will serve as the company’s first Chief Technology
Officer. Meschiari was instrumental in the beginning stages of Instasize
and was essential in building the first version of the app in 2014 as
lead iOS developer and as the company’s first full-time employee. Since
then, Meschiari has spearheaded all of the technological advancements
within the app such as filters, borders and other editing
functionalities.
Meschiari leads a team of 20 engineers who work remotely around the
world—Meschiari in Miami and others in Utah, Arizona, California,
Illinois, Romania and Poland.
“Our development team is moving fast to provide features to help social
content creators take control of their content and capitalize on their
brand, independent of the social platform,” said Meschiari. “Our small,
focused team has high standards of delivery and will lead the way with
innovative features to help social content creators develop followings
on self-managed platforms where they make the rules.”
Meschiari received his bachelor’s in computer engineering from the
University of Modena and Reggio Emilia in Modena, Italy in 2011 and his
Master of Science in mobile and ubiquitous computing from Trinity
College in Dublin, Ireland. For the last seven years, Meschiari has
worked as a software engineer for companies such as Moroku and Achvr and
as a freelance engineer. Instasize’s umbrella company, Munkee Apps,
hired Meschiari four years ago, and he was instrumental in building
Instasize and other apps owned by Munkee.
“In 2018, Instasize achieved 12 million monthly users and 500,000 paid
subscribers – subscribers that depend on steady app advancements each
month,” said Hector Lopez, CEO of Instasize. “Luca was our first outside
employee, and he’s been instrumental in our product development since
the beginning. We are glad to promote him to lead our entire development
team and set the technology strategy for the future.”
In 2018, the app was downloaded 50 million times in the Google Play
store and ranks in the Top 40 Photo/Video Apps in the Apple Store.
About Instasize
Instasize—a
visual toolkit for social media content creators—was founded in 2012 by
Hector Lopez, Eddy Homez and Omar Arambula, a team of college friends
with immigrant parents. Instasize exists to provide social creatives
with the tools, education and opportunities they need to grow. Through
the app users can resize, edit and transform RAW images for social
sharing. One of Utah’s fastest-growing companies, Instasize has 12
million monthly users, 500,000 premium paying subscribers, 50 million
downloads in the Google Play store and ranks in the Top 40 Photo/Video
Apps in the Apple store.
Instasize is available for download in the App
Store and Play
Store. For more information, visit www.instasize.com.
Contacts
SnappConner PR
Mark Fredrickson
mark@snappconner.com
801-806-0161