Summary
Sharlene Luo is a Senior Software Engineer with 11 years of experience building backend and full-stack product features for high-scale consumer platforms, most recently managing foundational Core Services at Roblox after leading listing and Host-side systems at Airbnb. She holds an MS in Language Technology from Carnegie Mellon and has a track record of owning microservices, APIs, and listing-quality systems that bridge product and client engineering. Comfortable across frontend and backend stacks, she has shipped major Host tooling, onboarding flows, bulk-editing dashboards, and a visual email editor early in her career. A pragmatic engineer who moves between product-facing features and core infra, she pairs deep executional experience with a research-informed background in language technologies. Outside of work she’s an avid traveler and swimmer who once lived in Airbnbs across five countries and three continents within 30 days, a habit that informs her product empathy for hosts and listings.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
University of California, Los Angeles
Master of Science - MIIS Language Technology & Infomation Systems, Master of Science - MIIS Language Technology & Infomation Systems at Carnegie Mellon University
Bachelor of Science (BS) Software Engineering, Bachelor of Science (BS) Software Engineering at Zhejiang University
Chinese, English