Senior Software Engineer at Airbnb since 2017, working on data platforms, quality systems and LLM-powered product features. MS in Software Engineering from Carnegie Mellon.
Experience
Senior Software Engineer · Airbnb
Jan 2017 – Present
San Francisco, CA
Quality and Merchandising
- Enhancing listing and experience highlights: adding and updating highlights with LLMs, simplifying the overall architecture, and enabling platformization of the infrastructure.
- Launched Pay Zero Upfront merchandising on the search and listing details pages; led the backend integration.
- Caught relisted listings that had been removed for not meeting Airbnb quality standards (8%+ of removed listings were being republished) by adding new rules to the Trust system and updating user content.
Listing Intelligence and Ops Tooling
- Planned, scoped and implemented the Universal Tagging System, a platform processing labels generated by operations: 200+ Labelbox projects and ~12.5 million labels.
- Designed and built the first version of the host quality score pipeline, a lambda architecture on Spark and Flink processing years of reviews and support tickets for every Airbnb listing.
Verified
- Proposed, within the Technical Design Group, a lambda architecture to compute the verified state of every Airbnb listing with reliable, low-latency reads and near-real-time updates.
- Built a data processing pipeline checking 26 criteria for every listing on Airbnb.
Yoga Teacher · CorePower Yoga
Jan 2023 – Present
Mission Bay, San Francisco, CA
- Teaching CorePower Yoga 2 (C2) classes at the Mission Bay studio since January 2023.
- Lead a Vinyasa-style C2 flow built around balances, inversions and presence, with an intense pace that trains both the mind and the body.
Software Engineer Intern · Riverbed
Jun 2016 – Aug 2016
Sunnyvale, CA
- Built an application integrating multiple Microsoft APIs using Django and other Python libraries.
Software Engineer · MahiSoft
May 2012 – Dec 2015
Caracas, Venezuela
Software development solutions provider with customers in the US and Latin America
- Improved ad selection for Mercado Libre, one of the largest Latin American sites, using machine learning algorithms with Elasticsearch.
- SiteScout (self-serve ad platform): added video advertising support to the public API.
- SiteScout: built a high-performance server handling thousands of requests per second with low latency, calling third-party providers (Proximic, Peer39).
- SiteScout: designed and implemented a central authentication system across their tools.
- Built real estate and auction websites with .NET and jQuery.
Education
200-Hour Yoga Teacher Training
Sep 2022 – Dec 2022
CorePower Yoga
MS in Software Engineering
Aug 2015 – Dec 2016
Carnegie Mellon University
Mountain View, CA · GPA 3.82
Computer Engineering
Oct 2006 – Nov 2011
Universidad Simón Bolívar
Caracas, Venezuela · GPA 3.94 / 5.00
Thesis: Numerical data clustering using population and collective intelligence algorithms
Skills
- Languages
- Java
- Kotlin
- Python
- Scala
- Ruby
- C#
- SQL
- Bash
- Frameworks & Data
- Spark
- Flink
- Hive
- Airflow
- Django
- Dropwizard
- Ruby on Rails
- Play
- ASP.NET
- PostgreSQL
- MySQL
- Elasticsearch
- Spoken Languages
- English (fluent)
- Spanish (native)