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10 Expedia engineering leaders
These ten people hold or have held director-level or higher engineering roles at Expedia and Expedia Group, from directors of software engineering to senior vice presidents and chief technology officers. A reader can learn how engineering leaders build and run their teams in travel technology companies.
Professionals to explore
01—10Andrea Pund
LinkedInExperience: Senior Director, Software Development Engineering · Expedia Group
Former Senior Director, Software Development Engineering at Expedia Group in Seattle (2021–2025) and Director of Engineering there (2019–2021). Since April 2025 this person has been Vice President of Technology at Expedia Group, a role in the Engineering and Technical department at the President/Vice President level.
Camila Kill
LinkedInExperience: Interim CTO & Co-Head of Technology for Hotels.com · Expedia Group
Former Interim CTO & Co-Head of Technology for Hotels.com at Expedia Group (2020–2021). Other former Expedia Group roles include Vice President of Technology, Growth and Loyalty (2021–2025) and Vice President of Technology, Inspire & Plan (2025–2026), and the profile lists Chief Technology Officer at Tes since September 2026.
Connor Culleton
LinkedInExperience: Senior Director of Software Engineering · Expedia Group
Senior Director of Software Engineering at Expedia Group in London since March 2025, a current role. Other Expedia Group roles include Director of Engineering (2022–2025), Director of Program (2021–2025) and Software Engineering Manager (2017–2021).
Dapeng Sui
LinkedInExperience: Director of Software Engineering · Expedia Group
Director of Software Engineering at Expedia Group in Seattle since April 2021, a current Director-level role in the Engineering and Technical department. Other Expedia Group roles include Senior Engineering Manager (2019–2021) and Senior Software Engineer (2014–2019).
John Ma
LinkedInExperience: Director of Engineering · Expedia Group
Former Director of Engineering at Expedia Group in Seattle (2015–2023) and Software Engineering Manager there (2008–2015). The profile says the director role led global engineering teams, drove the modernization of Expedia's core platforms and oversaw strategic planning, architecture evolution and product delivery.
Jordan Houari
LinkedInExperience: Senior Director, Software Engineering - Lodging Traveler Experience · Expedia Group
Former Senior Director, Software Engineering - Lodging Traveler Experience at Expedia Group (2021–2022) and Senior Director, Software Engineering - Traveler Experience (2019–2021). Since 2025 this person has been Vice President of Technology - Search & Recommendations at Expedia Group, a role in the Engineering and Technical department.
Mariano Albera
LinkedInExperience: Chief Technology Officer · Expedia
Former Chief Technology Officer at Expedia in London (2016–2019); the profile places the role at Expedia Partner Solutions, described as unlocking the power of Expedia Group for thousands of partners. The profile also lists Chief Technology Officer at Checkout.com since 2023, Senior Vice President Of Engineering at Checkout.com (2020–2023) and Chief Technology Officer at OVO (2014–2016).
Pascal Collet
LinkedInExperience: VP, Engineering · Expedia Group
Former VP, Engineering (2016–2020) and Head of Vrbo Engineering (2020–2021) at Expedia Group, and Senior Vice President, Technology there since 2025. The profile says the current role leads a global engineering organization powering Expedia Group's travel marketplace, spanning Flights, Lodging, Vacation Rentals, Packages, Cars and Activities.
Rick Fast
LinkedInExperience: Senior Vice President, Platform Engineering · Expedia Group
Senior Vice President, Platform Engineering at Expedia Group since April 2025, alongside current roles as Senior Vice President, Chief Architect and Senior Vice President, Consumer Technology; former Vice President, Engineering there (2020–2021). The profile says the platform role leads a worldwide engineering team that builds Expedia Group's platform technology, used by thousands of engineers globally.
Steve McMichael
LinkedInExperience: Senior Director of Software Engineering · Expedia
Senior Director of Software Engineering at Expedia since May 2023, a current role. The profile describes experience as a leader and engineer on teams across Search, the mobile app, consumer web, internal and external APIs, and internal Platform and DevOps product areas.
Choose the right perspective
Match the person's area to your question, since platform engineering, consumer shopping experiences and partner-facing products face different trade-offs. For current practice, favor people whose Expedia role is current, and for a view from outside, consider people who have since led engineering at other companies.
Questions to take into the conversation
- 01How do you decide which capabilities belong on a shared platform used by every brand and which stay with a product team?
- 02What does a sound engineering structure look like when several consumer brands run on common technology?
- 03How do you balance new feature work against platform modernization in a large travel marketplace?
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