# Binay P.

> Staff Software Engineer at Airbnb

Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/binay

Experienced Software Engineer with a demonstrated history of working in the internet industry. Skilled in Backend Engineering along with prior experience in Android Development & React. Engineering professional with a BS with a major in Electrical Engineering & a minor in Models and Data from Trinity College Connecticut.

## Work Experience
### Software Engineer @ Airbnb
Jan 2019 – Present | San Francisco Bay Area

### Lead Software Engineer @ Managed by Q
Jan 2016 – Jan 2019 | Greater New York City Area
Managed by Q is a B2B business catered to Office Management. In addition to providing marketplace for services necessary to run a physical office, it also offered SAAS solutions for office managers and building managers. Managed by Q was acquired by WeWork in 2019.

- Led a team of six engineers to develop various core product (ordering system, invoicing system) that powers the company’s core operation. Responsibilities included day-to-day engineering, mentoring, product planning, and quarterly planning.
- Tech lead for a task-force dedicated to develop business with commercial real estate owners and property managers.
- Developer of many critical products at Q that involved work in backend, frontend and infrastructure.
- Interviewed 100+ engineering candidates and helped in developing an interview process for software engineers.
- Introduced company-wide social events like hackathon, coffee-buddies and cocktail-hour to increase the communication and camaraderie across different teams in the organization.

Tech experience in Django, SNS/SQS, React, MySQL, Python, Javascript, Microservices, CI/CD, Docker

### Senior Software Engineer @ Jana
Jan 2012 – Jan 2016
Jana is an Internet company that provides free cellular data to consumers in developing countries. Founded in 2009, the company offers mCent app that is used by more than 30 million users in Brazil, India, and Indonesia. I joined Jana’s five­ person engineering team in 2012 and worked in different capacities as it grew to become a profitable company with 40+ engineers and 90 employees.

- Helped, as one of the early engineers in the team, to develop six different major projects that enabled the company to receive its Series B ($15 million) and Series C venture capital funding ($57 million).
- Collaborated with two other engineers to develop an advertising product that generated more than USD 15 million in revenue.
- Developed various user facing products that helped the company to get more than 40 million user accounts.
- Interviewed more than 50 candidates for engineering, product and operations roles; mentored four junior engineers.

Tools/Technology used: Flask, Kafka, Hadoop, Android, Python, Javascript, Java


## Education
### BS in Electrical Engineering, Models and Data minor
Trinity College-Hartford


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/binay-poudel
- Website: https://www.trincoll.edu/AboutTrinity/News_Events/trinity_news/033010_DavisPeace2010.htm
- Website: http://www.4legs.org/2011/02/trinity-students-teach-robotics-to-promote-peace/

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Last updated: 2026-04-01