Summary
Piera Damonte is an engineering manager with 11 years of software and leadership experience, currently leading teams at Airbnb after growing subscription and living room client engineering at Disney Streaming and Hulu. She blends full-stack fluency—Python, Ruby, JavaScript, Flask and Rails—with product-focused delivery of commerce, onboarding, and device platform features across nine device OSes and major partners like Google and Amazon. Piera progressed from individual contributor and tech lead roles building personalization and pay-per-view systems to managing multiple teams responsible for business-critical, deadline-driven projects. Her background in operations and program leadership, plus a Masters in Technology Leadership from Brown and a Hackbright software engineering fellowship, gives her rare cross-functional strengths in scaling teams, tooling, and customer-facing reliability. An outdoors educator-turned-engineer, she brings disciplined expedition-style project management and a track record of improving reliability, monitoring, and onboarding across complex ecosystems.
11 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
B.S. Genetics, B.S. Genetics at University of California, Davis
Software Engineering Fellowship & Front-end Web Development Computer Software Engineering, Software Engineering Fellowship & Front-end Web Development Computer Software Engineering at Hackbright Academy
Masters Technology Leadership, Masters Technology Leadership at Brown University