Fidel Sosa
Engineering Manager at Airbnb
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolFidel Sosa is an engineering manager and technical leader based in San Francisco with 14 years of experience building mobile and media systems for consumer platforms. He currently leads Airbnb’s Media Foundation efforts after advancing from Staff iOS Engineer, bringing deep expertise in multimedia, iOS architecture, and platform-scale engineering. Previously he led Core Search and Guest Center teams at OpenTable and shipped reliability and performance improvements at eHarmony, demonstrating a track record of turning messy legacy code into robust, testable systems. A former startup co-founder, Fidel blends individual contributor rigor with people leadership—hiring, mentoring and instituting CI/testing and knowledge-share practices that raised team velocity. He holds undergraduate and master’s degrees in Computer Science from MIT and is known for pragmatic system design that balances product impact with engineering craft.
14 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science at MITM.Eng, Computer Science, M.Eng, Computer Science at Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Spanish, English
Github Skills (38)
java9
elasticsearch8
xenforo8
search-engine8
sonos7
restful7
swift7
tvos6
ios6
watchos5
macos5
nodejs5
maven5
api5
raspberry5
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
fsosa/UBQ
Nov 2011 - Dec 2011
Contributions:12 commits in 28 days
fsosa/fsosa.github.io
Oct 2018 - Feb 2021
Contributions:2 PRs, 34 pushes, 5 branches in 2 years 3 months
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