Eugene Yedvabny is a Senior Software Engineer with 11 years of experience building and operating large-scale backend and full-stack systems from startups to enterprise teams in the San Francisco Bay Area. He currently manages Airbnb’s fleet of AWS Aurora clusters, bringing deep expertise in infrastructure, reliability, security, and developer experience. His background spans hands-on backend engineering in Scala, Ruby, and cloud services, plus prior management roles that blended technical mentorship with product-driven delivery. Eugene began his career with computational chemistry research at UC Berkeley, giving him a strong foundation in scientific computing and performance-minded code. Known for asking how the sausage is made—and rolling up his sleeves to make it—he balances pragmatic incident response with strategic infrastructure improvements.
11 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (M.S.) Computational Chemistry, Master of Science (M.S.) Computational Chemistry at University of California, Berkeley
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) Major: Chemistry / Minor: Computer Science, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) Major: Chemistry / Minor: Computer Science at Cornell University
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Eugene Yedvabny - Senior Software Engineer at Airbnb