Chas Lemley
Staff Software Engineer at Airbnb
Atlanta, Georgia, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolChas Lemley is a Staff Software Engineer based in Atlanta with 16 years of experience building production web applications, primarily focused on Ruby and Rails. He has driven platform and product-level engineering at Airbnb since 2019 after rising through senior technical roles at HotelTonight, where he spent seven years shaping backend systems. Known for blending hands-on coding with architectural leadership, he helps teams scale reliability and developer velocity in high-traffic consumer services. His background includes early full-stack engineering at Consumer Source and a BS in Computer Science from the University of North Georgia. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic problem solver who prefers clear, maintainable solutions over complexity. Outside work he brings the long-term perspective of a seasoned engineer who stays current with the Ruby ecosystem while adapting practices to large distributed systems.
16 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Computer Science, BS, Computer Science at University of North Georgia
Github Skills (62)
sikulix9
docker8
actionmailer8
sidekiq8
golang8
delayed-job7
integrate7
ruby7
sneakers7
plugin7
rake6
jruby6
go6
java6
ruby-wrapper6
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
chaslemley/slim.clj
Oct 2010 - Aug 2012
Contributions:15 commits in 1 year 9 months
templatingclojureclojurescript
chaslemley/sikuli_ruby
Jul 2011 - Oct 2013
Contributions:40 commits in 2 years 3 months
javajrubysikulijruby-wrapper
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