Alan Wright
Staff Software Engineer at Airbnb
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAlan Wright is a Staff Software Engineer in Seattle with 12 years of experience building high-impact frontend experiences and leading both small feature teams and larger cross-team infrastructure squads. He has driven guest-facing product work and SEO-driven growth at Airbnb and modernized large-scale SPAs and performance-critical TypeScript codebases at Microsoft, delivering measurable improvements like 70% faster initial load and increased user engagement. Known for combining hands-on frontend craftsmanship with technical leadership, he has shipped features across the full product lifecycle—from arrival/check-in flows to platform-level landing page infrastructure. Outside product work, his early research in computer vision and proven track record migrating and modernizing legacy frontends hint at a pragmatic curiosity for both applied research and scalable engineering.
12 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Degree, Computer Science, Magna Cum Laude, Bachelor's Degree, Computer Science, Magna Cum Laude at University of Central Florida
Github Skills (25)
visual-studio-code10
electron10
microsoft10
typescript10
editor10
reddit8
netflix7
praw6
react6
css6
streaming5
oauth5
lazyload5
deprecated5
angularjs5
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
alanwright/BitDay
May 2014 - Sep 2014
Contributions:31 commits in 3 months
alanwright/NetflixBot
May 2014 - Feb 2016
Contributions:42 commits, 2 PRs, 2 pushes in 1 year 9 months
pythonmoviesnetflixfindingbot
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