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Willie Yao is the head of infrastructure at Notion. Before joining Notion, Willie worked at Airbnb for eight years. In this episode, we cover a broad swath of topics including how developer experience became a priority at Airbnb. We also look at what it looks like to adopt and embrace a customer first mindset from both Notion and Airbnb.

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.