Summary
Neil Kodner is an experienced data and engineering leader with 16 years driving large-scale data infrastructure and trust-focused platforms across top tech companies. Currently Engineering Manager for Trust Data Foundations at Airbnb, he has led data engineering and infrastructure strategy roles at Instagram, Meta, and Lacework, blending deep operational database expertise with product-facing reliability work. His career began in Oracle DBAs and database architecture for public sector and enterprise clients, giving him a strong foundation in data modeling, performance tuning, and long-lived systems. Neil is comfortable moving between hands-on technical design and people leadership, mentoring teams that deliver secure, auditable data pipelines for business-critical use cases. Based in Los Gatos, he brings a practical, customer-informed perspective from roles that spanned both early customer engagement and later platformization at scale. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic systems thinker who favors durable engineering over quick fixes.
15 years of coding experience
29 years of employment as a software developer
University of Illinois Chicago
University of Miami