Robert Jailall
Engineering Manager at Airbnb
San Francisco Bay Area United States
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Top SchoolRobert Jailall is an engineering manager with 12 years of experience building high-reliability systems and the teams that create them, currently leading Airbnb’s Payouts team which moves billions annually across 141 countries. He combines hands-on technical depth—from C++ missile-defense simulations and distributed optimization to high-scale web and mobile payments—with strong people management, having built and mentored multiple teams and managers at PlanGrid and Johns Hopkins APL. His work emphasizes fault-tolerance, transactional integrity, and orchestration-first workflows that reduce operational toil while enabling new business models. He’s comfortable across the stack and lifecycle—architecture, on-call, recruiting, and delivery—and has repeatedly translated research-grade algorithms into production systems. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic leader who values respect and diversity of experience as catalysts for creative problem solving.
12 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Computer Science, Minors: Economics, Japanese, BS, Computer Science, Minors: Economics, Japanese at North Carolina State UniversityJohns Hopkins UniversityStudy Abroad, Comparative Culture, Japanese, Study Abroad, Comparative Culture, Japanese at 上智大学
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Github Skills (10)
network-configuration10
automation10
ansible-module10
python10
ssh10
ansible10
dotnet2
jenkins-builder1
java1
heroku1
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
robjailall/ipo_decision_calculator
Aug 2020 - Sep 2021
Use this script to decide when and in what state you should sell your initial public offering (IPO) shares
Contributions:3 PRs, 16 pushes, 6 branches in 1 year
ipofinanceinitialsellshares
robjailall/stack-ranking
Apr 2020 - Sep 2021
Simulates how changing the way you implement employee stack ranking affects how inaccurate stack ranking is
Contributions:1 PR, 4 pushes, 2 branches in 1 year 5 months
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