Carlos Mondragon is a Senior Engineering Manager at Airbnb with 15 years of experience leading full-stack engineering teams and building scalable consumer products. A serial entrepreneur and former VP of Engineering, he founded and led multiple startups in social gaming and SaaS, bringing product intuition and strategic planning to engineering leadership. He combines hands-on development chops with negotiation and design sensibilities, enabling cross-functional delivery from prototype to production. Based in San Francisco and educated at Tecnol贸gico de Monterrey, he excels at converting game mechanics and social systems into sustainable business models. Known for balancing technical depth with commercial focus, he has repeatedly scaled teams and platforms through periods of rapid growth. An uncommon thread in his career is continuous founder-level ownership even after moving into senior management, preserving an operator鈥檚 bias in decision-making.
15 years of coding experience
25 years of employment as a software developer
BS Computer Software Engineering, BS Computer Software Engineering at Tecnol贸gico de Monterrey
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Carlos Mondragon - Senior Engineering Manager at Airbnb