10 Airbnb engineering leaders
Two Airbnb CTOs anchor this group of engineering leaders: Ahmad Al-Dahle, in the role since January 2026 and VP, Head of GenAI at Meta from 2020 to 2026, and co-founder Nathan Blecharczyk, CTO from 2008 to 2016. The others have held vice president, technical fellow and engineering director titles that cover infrastructure, marketplace platforms, growth and search, useful for teams planning AI features on a marketplace or scaling platform engineering.
Professionals to explore
Ahmad Al-Dahle
LinkedInExperience: Chief Technology Officer · Airbnb
Ahmad Al-Dahle has been Chief Technology Officer at Airbnb since January 2026 and was VP, Head of GenAI at Meta (2020–2026). Apple roles were Special Project Group (2014–2021), Imaging & Sensing Technology Group (2007–2014) and Special Projects Group (2005–2007), which makes Ahmad Al-Dahle a fit for questions on bringing generative AI into a consumer product's engineering organization.
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Anna Sulkina
LinkedInExperience: Sr. Director of Engineering · Airbnb
Anna Sulkina has been Sr. Director of Engineering at Airbnb since August 2025 and lists Director Of Engineering there since May 2022. Twitter titles were Director Of Engineering (2019–2022), Senior Engineering Manager (2015–2019) and Engineering Manager (2013–2015), so Anna Sulkina can compare engineering management at Twitter and Airbnb and the step from manager to senior director.
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Anton Radlein
LinkedInExperience: VP, Head of Tech Foundations · Airbnb
Anton Radlein became VP, Head of Tech Foundations at Airbnb in February 2026, leading Infrastructure (internal AI, data, quality and reliability, developer platform and compute), Infosec and Enterprise Technology, and lists VP, Head of Infrastructure since November 2024. Advisory roles include Hetz Ventures (since 2022) and PayPal Ventures Advisor at PayPal (2023–2024).
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Michael Kinoti
LinkedInExperience: Director of Engineering, Growth Platform (Product & Engineering) · Airbnb
Michael Kinoti leads the Growth Platform team at Airbnb as Director of Engineering, Growth Platform (Product & Engineering) since 2020, a 100+ person organization of product managers and engineers building foundational growth technology. Other roles include Sr. Engineering Manager at Uber (2016–2020) and Senior Software Engineering Manager at Microsoft (2013–2016), and a Black Venture Institute Fellow role at BLCK VC.
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Nathan Blecharczyk
LinkedInExperience: Former Co-Founder & CTO · Airbnb
Nathan Blecharczyk was Co-Founder & CTO of Airbnb (2008–2016) and has been Co-Founder, CSO since 2017, and is described as chairman of Airbnb China. Other roles include Software Engineer at OPNET Technologies, Inc. (2005–2006) and Teaching Fellow at Harvard University (2005), so Nathan Blecharczyk can speak to Airbnb's engineering in its first CTO's years and to strategy since.
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Patrick Gates
LinkedInExperience: Former Vice President and Technical Fellow · Airbnb
Patrick Gates was Vice President and Technical Fellow at Airbnb (2024–2026) and CTO at Humane (2019–2024), and has been a Member of Technical Staff at Anthropic since September 2026. Other roles include Senior Director of Engineering at Apple (2013–2018) and a board seat at Helfie.AI, a background suited to questions on CTO and technical fellow roles.
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Rachel Zhao
LinkedInExperience: Director of Engineering · Airbnb
Rachel Zhao was Head of Engineering, Search Product at Airbnb (2020–2026) and became Director of Engineering in February 2026, leading a group for SEO/GEO, Homepage, Search UX and Map UX. Yelp titles were Director Of Engineering, Consumer Experience (2019–2020), Head of Core Consumer Experience (2018–2019) and Engineering Manager (Search UX) (2017–2018), a fit for search and discovery questions.
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Raymie Stata
LinkedInExperience: VP, Technical Fellow · Airbnb
Raymie Stata held the VP, Technical Fellow title at Airbnb from 2019 to 2024 and has been a Technical Advisor to Airbnb since February 2024. Other roles include Chairman Of The Board at Aqfer (since 2018) and SVP and GM, Big Data Solutions at SAP (2016–2017), making Raymie Stata a fit for data platform and technical architecture questions.
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Usman Abbasi
LinkedInExperience: Sr. Director of Engineering, Marketplace & Application Platforms · Airbnb
Usman Abbasi describes leading engineering organizations of 250+ engineers at Airbnb responsible for the core supply platform for 6M+ hosts and $90B+ in annual bookings. Usman's titles are Sr. Director of Engineering, Marketplace & Application Platforms since August 2025, Sr. Director of Engineering, Users, Listings and Platform (2020–2025) and GM of Homes Platform (2019–2020), plus Engineering Director, Google Cloud Platform at Google (2013–2017).
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Vinicius Gonzaga
LinkedInExperience: Senior Director of Engineering · Airbnb
Vinicius Gonzaga has held the Senior Director of Engineering title at Airbnb since February 2019, in San Francisco. Other roles include Principal Software Engineer at Booking.com (2013–2019), Senior Software Architect at buuteeq Inc. (2007–2013) and Director, Enterprise Engineering at SDL International (2003–2007), which, with the Airbnb role, fits software architecture questions.
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Choose the right perspective
Infrastructure, security and internal tooling questions suit Anton Radlein; marketplace and host-side platform questions suit Usman Abbasi. Growth engineering goes to Michael Kinoti and search, SEO and map experience to Rachel Zhao, while Patrick Gates and Raymie Stata, both former technical fellows, fit architecture questions and Ahmad Al-Dahle fits AI strategy.
Questions to take into the conversation
- 01How should a two-sided marketplace decide which AI features to build on its own models and which to buy?
- 02When infrastructure, security and enterprise IT sit under one engineering leader, how do you set priorities between reliability and cost?
- 03What does a growth platform team own that product growth teams should not build themselves?
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