Melanie Cebula
Staff Software Engineer at Airbnb
Los Angeles, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMelanie Cebula is a Staff Software Engineer with 13 years of experience specializing in cloud infrastructure and cost-efficient, cloud-native architectures, currently driving platform reliability and savings at Airbnb. She led initiatives that reduced Airbnb’s AWS bill by over 30%, integrated Kubernetes into production through the OneTouch migration, and established sitewide incident response and on-call training practices. Known as an engaging international keynote speaker, she explains novel approaches to cloud efficiency to diverse technical audiences. Her background includes scaling monolith shipping (merge queue) and hands-on teaching roles at UC Berkeley, reflecting a blend of practical engineering and mentorship. Off the clock she applies the same risk-aware decision-making to rock climbing and adventure sports, and brings a creative, detail-oriented mindset to hobbies like hand-whisking matcha and costuming.
13 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts (BA), Computer Science, Bachelor of Arts (BA), Computer Science at UC Berkeley
Github Skills (25)
datetimepicker10
datetime9
datepicker9
bootstrapping8
aws5
soa5
discovery5
data-platform4
face-detection4
python4
service-discovery3
parser3
data-science3
cross-platform2
data-munging2
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
HackBerkeley/intro-git
Jan 2015 - Jan 2015
Contributions:16 commits, 15 pushes, 1 branch in 4 days
melaniecebula/melaniecebula.github.io
Jan 2015 - Jan 2025
My very first personal website.
Contributions:8 PRs, 81 pushes, 4 branches in 10 years 2 months
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