Hunter Elbourn
Staff Software Engineer at Airbnb
Los Angeles, California, United States
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Top SchoolHunter Elbourn is a Staff Software Engineer based in Los Angeles with 11 years of experience building high-throughput infrastructure and data systems. He led infrastructure as Tech Lead/Infrastructure Architect at CloudKitchens and now drives platform-level engineering at Airbnb, applying pragmatic, performance-first design. As the first engineer at Bliss Point Media he architected impression-serving pipelines and ML training/data-warehousing that handled tens of millions of daily events, blending distributed systems, streaming, and serverless AWS tooling. His background includes customer-facing APIs and high-quality operational practices from Dun & Bradstreet, giving him strong chops in reliability, monitoring, and partner collaboration. Hunter’s philosophy—“learning the Bitter Lesson over and over again”—signals a preference for scalable, general solutions over ad hoc optimizations. He pairs hands-on implementation across languages and stacks with a knack for turning messy product requirements into resilient, production-ready systems.
11 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 Beloit CollegeComputer Science, Computer Science at California State University Channel Islands
English, Russian
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (137)
metadata10
recharts10
javascript10
ava10
traversal10
trend10
todomvc10
sourceforge10
data-visualisation10
linkedin10
chai10
enzyme10
react10
datahub9
monitoring9
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
HunterEl/Spotter
Feb 2016 - Jul 2017
Contributions:6 PRs, 72 pushes, 7 branches in 1 year 4 months
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HunterEl/lore
Jul 2017 - Jul 2017
Contributions:16 commits, 2 PRs, 14 pushes in 3 days
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