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10 Airbnb IT leaders
These ten current and former Airbnb IT leaders hold or held CIO, head of global IT, head of corporate infrastructure, business technology, collaboration technology and infrastructure director roles, covering employee IT, corporate and cloud infrastructure, data, reliability and search. A reader can learn how IT leaders work at Airbnb from people who have held the role.
Professionals to explore
01—10Bruce Chu
LinkedInExperience: Former Director of Engineering, Head of Cloud Infra · Airbnb
Former Director of Engineering, Head of Cloud Infra at Airbnb (2020–2022), and listed as Director Of Engineering at Airbnb (2016–2022). Bruce Chu was also Senior Engineering Manager, Production Platform (2019–2020) and Senior Engineering Manager, Developer Productivity (2016–2019) at Airbnb, and Head of Engineering at Lever (2014–2016).
Bryan Juliano
LinkedInExperience: Director, Reliability Engineering (SRE) · Airbnb
Director, Reliability Engineering (SRE) at Airbnb since March 2024, with a headline describing infrastructure engineering leadership and engineering expansion in São Paulo, Brazil. Bryan Juliano was Director, Production Engineering at Meta (2016–2023), VP, Production Engineering & Growth Hacking at Pinger (2012–2016), and Vice President, Yahoo! Advertising & Search Service Engineering (SE) & Data Delivery (2010–2012) and VP, Media Products & Solutions Service Engineering (2006–2010) at Yahoo.
Chris Ballard
LinkedInExperience: Director, Head of Corporate Infrastructure · Airbnb
Director, Head of Corporate Infrastructure at Airbnb since November 2015, based in San Diego. Chris Ballard was Regional Operations Manager at Amazon Web Services (2013–2015), Senior Manager, Global Infrastructure Services at Cisco (1999–2013) and Unix Systems Administrator/Team Lead at Nortel Networks (1998–1999).
Lucius DiPhillips
LinkedInExperience: Former Chief Information Officer (CIO) · Airbnb
Former Chief Information Officer (CIO) at Airbnb (July 2020 to January 2026) and now Chief Information Officer at Adobe. Lucius DiPhillips was Head of Payments Engineering & Data Science, Finance Engineering at Airbnb (2018–2020), VP, Product & Engineering at eBay (2015–2017) and a vice president at PayPal (2012–2015).
Michael Decker
LinkedInExperience: Director, Data Infrastructure Group · Airbnb
Director, Data Infrastructure Group at Airbnb since March 2026, based in the Seattle area, in an organization that builds and manages Airbnb's data infrastructure, per the profile. Michael Decker was Director of Engineering, Online Data at Airbnb (2025–2026) and Director of Software Engineering at Amazon (2023–2025).
Nathan Towery
LinkedInExperience: Director of Data Engineering and Infrastructure · Airbnb
Director of Data Engineering and Infrastructure at Airbnb since November 2022, leading the offline data infrastructure organization of approximately 130+ engineers, managers and directors, per the profile. Nathan Towery was AI/ML Data Engineering (2021–2022) and Siri Assistant & Search Data Engineering (2020–2021) at Apple, and Director Data Science & Engineering - Core Engineering / Platform & Security (2019–2020) and Director Data Engineering & Infrastructure - Product, Marketing, Content, and Streaming (2017–2019) at Netflix.
Salma Khan Wornick
LinkedInExperience: Former Global Head, Collaboration Technologies · Airbnb
Former Global Head, Collaboration Technologies at Airbnb (2022–2026), leading collaboration technology strategy for 10,000+ Airbnb employees, per the profile. Salma Khan Wornick was Founding Technical Lead, Public Company & IPO Readiness (2020–2022) and Global Service Delivery Leader, CRM Technologies (2018–2020) at Airbnb.
Sarah Nacey
LinkedInExperience: Head of Global IT · Airbnb
Head of Global IT at Airbnb since October 2025, based in Mountain View, with a headline naming global IT support. Sarah Nacey was Senior Manager, Global Process & Strategy (2022–2025), Senior Manager, Support Process Engineering and Knowledge (2022), Manager, Support Process Engineering and Knowledge (2019–2022) and Senior Program Manager, Knowledge & Process (2018–2019) at LinkedIn.
Steve A.
LinkedInExperience: Director, Business Technology - Head of BizTech Products · Airbnb
Director, Business Technology - Head of BizTech Products at Airbnb since February 2022, based in Ireland. Steve A. was Director, Business Technology - Head of IT Support, Procurement, Hardware Logistics at Airbnb (2016–2022), also held the EMEA IT Manager role there, and was Technical Operations Manager - EMEA HQ at Google (2010–2015).
Yi Li
LinkedInExperience: Director · Airbnb
Director at Airbnb since November 2021, based in Bellevue, Washington, covering search infrastructure, knowledge graph and machine learning infrastructure, per the profile. Yi Li was Partner Group Engineering Manager (2020–2021), Partner General Manager (2014–2020) and Principal Development Manager (2010–2014) at Microsoft.
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Questions to take into the conversation
- 01How does a tech company run employee IT, hardware logistics and collaboration tools for a global workforce?
- 02What does it take to run data and cloud infrastructure for a large consumer marketplace?
- 03How did a company's IT organization prepare its systems for an IPO?
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