Melanie Cebula

Software Engineer

Los Angeles, California, United States11 yrs 5 mos experience

Highly Stable

Key Highlights

Expert in Cloud Infrastructure with significant cost savings.
Multi-instrumentalist and electronic producer with upcoming EP.
Passionate about community work and crafting.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Cloud Infrastructure expert with strong software engineering capabilities.

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Skills

Core Skills

Cloud InfrastructureSoftware Engineering

Other Skills

AWSKubernetesCost SavingsCost AnalysisPerformance EvaluationMigrationIncident ResponseCloud MigrationService IntegrationCode ScalingCode ManagementProject LeadershipPythonHTMLObjective-C

About

Melanie Cebula is an expert in Cloud Infrastructure, where she is recognized worldwide for explaining radically new ways of thinking about cloud efficiency and usability. Her knowledge is backed by real work on the ground; She has directly collaborated on over $75M+ (and counting...) in savings to her company's cloud data centers since 2019. Besides her expertise in the computing world, Melanie is an active multi-instrumentalist and electronic producer; her first EP is coming out in 2025. Melanie is also passionate about yoga, rock climbing, community work & community building, costuming, foraging and crafting.

Experience

11 yrs 5 mos

Total Experience

2 yrs 3 mos

Average Tenure

Current Experience

Airbnb

4 roles

Staff Software Engineer

Promoted

Mar 2020 – Jul 2025 · 5 yrs 4 mos

Tactical AWS Cost Savings / AWS Cost Program: Reduce our total AWS bill by over 30%
K8s CPU Isolation & Performance Strategies Evaluation

AWSKubernetesCost SavingsCloud InfrastructureSoftware Engineering

Senior Software Engineer

Promoted

Mar 2017 – Mar 2020 · 3 yrs

OneTouch Migration: Migrate all eligible stateless workloads to OneTouch
OneTouch GA: Integrate Kubernetes into our infrastructure (OneTouch) and reach GA for new stateless services
Sysops Chair: Lead sitewide incident response team & oncall training

KubernetesMigrationIncident ResponseCloud InfrastructureSoftware Engineering

Software Engineer

Mar 2016 – Mar 2017 · 1 yr

Merge Queue: Lead project to scale shipping monolith code

Code ScalingSoftware Engineering

Software Engineering Intern

Jun 2015 – Aug 2015 · 2 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

Payments- Employee Travel Credit Program

Uc berkeley

3 roles

CS 164 TA (Programming Languages and Compilers)

Aug 2015 – Dec 2015 · 4 mos

CS61B TA

Aug 2014 – Jun 2015 · 10 mos

Data Structures

CS61B Head Reader

Jan 2014 – May 2014 · 4 mos

Reader for Data Structures and Algorithms. Headed the grading effort and organized Reader Project Office Hours.

Facebook

Software Engineering Intern

May 2014 – Aug 2014 · 3 mos · Menlo Park

Ads and Pages- Pages iOS

University of california, berkeley

CS61A Reader

Aug 2013 – Dec 2013 · 4 mos

Reader for the Intro CS class at Cal.

Facebook

FBU Intern

Jun 2013 – Aug 2013 · 2 mos

FBU is a 8-week program for freshman at Facebook, and involves learning Objective-C and iOS programming, and working on the iOS mobile development team.