John Biesnecker
Staff Software Engineer at Airbnb
Orlando, Florida, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJohn Biesnecker is a Staff Software Engineer with 14 years of experience building large-scale systems and developer tools, currently leading i18n platform work at Airbnb after senior roles at Meta and Mercury. He combines low-level language expertise (C, C++, Rust, Haskell, Python) with product-minded technical leadership, having driven payment rails and runtime performance projects used by hundreds of millions. Known for improving tooling, frameworks, and processes, he focuses on accelerating teams as much as shipping features and has worked across legal, policy, capacity planning, and infosec. A longtime advocate of sound type systems, he also brings unusual cross-cultural product experience from early work in China and language education—evidencing a blend of technical depth and pragmatic product intuition.
14 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Political Science and Government, Bachelor's degree Political Science and Government at University of Central Florida
Chinese, Spanish
Github Skills (70)
filesystem-events10
hacklang10
shell10
watchdog10
filesystem10
php10
rust9
bash9
hhvm9
virtual-machine9
monitor9
credentials8
hackage8
union8
python8
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
biesnecker/hachiko
Apr 2015 - Nov 2021
An extremely simple asyncio-compatible wrapper around Watchdog.
Contributions:1 review, 20 commits, 7 PRs in 6 years 8 months
pythonwatchdogasynciopython36python3
biesnecker/biesnecker.com
Nov 2021 - Aug 2023
Contributions:45 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 9 months
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