Developer Experience

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At Airbnb, developer experience was identified as a top source of developers leaving the company. At Infra, it took alignment at very senior levels to say, "No, no, no. This is a really big focus" And when we did that, that was actually a huge moment because we had teams that have been trying to work on improving the developer environment specifically.

In this episode, Willie Yao, Head of Infrastructure at Notion and former Head of Developer Infrastructure at Airbnb, provides a unique perspective on how Developer Experience teams work in hypergrowth companies. He shares how Airbnb developed a customer-first mindset internally, what it took to get Airbnb’s leadership invested in that effort, and how he’s approaching DevEx at Notion today.