# Cetin Sahin > Staff Software Engineer at Airbnb Location: San Francisco, California, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/cetin Cetin Sahin earned his master’s and Ph.D. degrees in Computer Science from UCSB in 2016 and 2017, respectively. His research interests include data security and privacy. He worked at SAP Big Data Services. Since August 2019, he works at Airbnb. ## Work Experience ### Staff Software Engineer @ Airbnb Jan 2019 – Present | San Francisco Bay Area ### Senior Developer @ SAP Jan 2017 – Jan 2019 | San Francisco Bay Area - Scrum Master in the Hadoop development team since June 2018 - SAP Catalyst 2018/2019 ### PHD @ UC Santa Barbara Jan 2011 – Jan 2017 | Santa Barbara, California Area ### Graduate Teaching Assistant @ UC Santa Barbara Jan 2011 – Jan 2014 CS138 - “Automata and Formal Languages”, Fall 2011, Spring 2014 CS48 - “Computer Science Project”, Winter 2012, Fall 2012 and Winter 2013 CS24 - “Problem Solving with Computers II, C++”, Spring 2012 ### Summer Research Intern @ NEC Laboratories America, Inc. Jan 2014 – Jan 2014 | Cupertino, CA Summer Research Assistant in the Data Management team. ### Summer Research Intern @ NEC Laboratories America Jan 2013 – Jan 2013 Summer Research Assistant in the Data Management team. ### iOS Software Developer @ Omega İleri Teknoloji Jan 2010 – Jan 2011 ### iOS Software Developer @ Ipek Bilgisayar Jan 2010 – Jan 2010 ### Software Developer as Intern @ Omega İleri Teknoloji Jan 2009 – Jan 2009 ## Education ### PhD in Computer Science UC Santa Barbara ### Master's degree in Computer Science UC Santa Barbara ### Bachelor of Science (B.S.) in Computer Science Bilkent University ### High School Diploma Nuh Mehmet Kucukcalik Anatolian High School ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/cetinsahin --- Source: https://flows.cv/cetin JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/cetin/resume.json Last updated: 2026-04-12