I know that during your time at Airbnb, you worked in a number of different areas. Could you just share a little bit more, how did your role and your focus and projects sort of evolve during his time at Airbnb? Yeah, yeah, absolutely. So for me, I started my career at Airbnb and I essentially worked on developer experience in some form throughout most of my time there. And I think in the beginning, it was more focused on specific domain areas.
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.