Benji Schwartz-gilbert is an engineering manager with 15 years of experience building resilient payments and business systems teams and platforms, currently leading Payments engineering at Airbnb from Seattle. He combines startup-scale velocity as a former Director of Engineering at Seed with enterprise-grade process and observability learned at Tableau and the University of Washington, enabling teams to ship reliable operational backbones. Known for turning high-complexity payment flows into maintainable systems, he prioritizes coaching, cross-functional partnership, and measurable operational SLAs. His background in informatics and a career path that moved from hands-on engineering to leadership gives him a pragmatic, data-informed approach to scaling people and systems.
15 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science, Informatics, Bachelor of Science, Informatics at University of Washington
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Benji Schwartz-gilbert - Engineering Manager, Payments at Airbnb