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Anna Sulkina, Senior Director of Engineering at Airbnb, shares her career journey from Soviet-era Ukraine to leading Application & Cloud Infrastructure.
•Immigrated from Ukraine to the US after the Soviet Union's collapse, learning C++ and Java at Berkeley while overcoming English language barriers early in her career
•Career progressed down the software stack from hardware diagnostics to frontend, backend, and deep infrastructure, with parallel growth into engineering leadership
•Spent nearly nine years at Twitter, leading teams through the monolith-to-microservices transition and bootstrapping the GraphQL API that replaced legacy REST services
•Joined Airbnb in 2022 to lead the Developer Platform org, building team alignment and improving developer satisfaction by ~10% year over year via DevX surveys
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Now oversees compute, networking, core services, and the GraphQL application platform, providing infrastructure abstractions for Airbnb's engineering teams
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