Zach Barahal
Engineering Manager at Airbnb
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolZach Barahal is an engineering manager with 11 years of experience leading teams that build and operate cloud-native database and caching infrastructure. Currently managing Airbnb’s KV & Caching team inside Online Data, he previously led DigitalOcean’s Managed Databases organization, shipping production-grade managed MongoDB and database automation spanning provisioning, HA, backups, and Temporal workflows. A hands-on leader comfortable in Go and distributed systems, Zach has driven reliability and automation at scale—from Kubernetes fleets to backup pipelines and monorepo tooling. He combines deep operational experience with a knack for turning complex infrastructure into simple, customer-facing products, and has a track record of mentoring teams through growth and on-call resilience.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS) Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BS) Computer Science at University of Southern California
English, Spanish
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Github Skills (50)
rtm10
docker-image9
jira9
api9
client-library8
cgo8
bazel-rules8
starlark8
open-data8
atlassian8
google8
credit8
catalog8
go-client7
csv-parser7
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
zbarahal/VEST
Jan 2015 - May 2015
Contributions:81 pushes, 2 branches, 14 comments in 3 months
zbarahal/python-rtmbot
Jul 2015 - Aug 2015
Contributions:17 commits, 16 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
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