Summary
Aleck Landgraf is a Staff Software Engineer in Portland with 11 years of experience building large-scale web applications across front-end and back-end domains. He led engineering efforts at Building Energy, collaborating with the US DOE on the Building Performance Database and the SEED platform, and now drives architecture and large-codebase coordination at Airbnb. A Python advocate and organizer for the Portland Python Users Group, he blends community mentorship with hands-on system design and performance work. At Airbnb he created a working group for one of the company’s largest codebases and built a translation pipeline for internal tooling, having earlier improved tooling load times by 50% via CDN integration. Comfortable across React/Redux, Python, cloud deployments and data-focused platforms, he surfaces pragmatic solutions that scale. Outside work he balances engineering leadership with life as a “fun dad @Airbnb,” reflecting a practical, people-first approach.
11 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Electrical and Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering at The Ohio State University