Yang Xiao is a highly experienced software development professional currently serving as a Staff Software Development Engineer at Airbnb since May 2022. Prior to this role, Yang Xiao spent over seven years at Amazon Web Services (AWS) as a Senior Software Development Engineer, where contributions included founding the AWS App Runner and leading engineering efforts for both AWS App Runner and Elastic Beanstalk, focusing on CI/CD infrastructure management and application containerization. Earlier experience includes a position as a Software Development Engineer at UBS and a consulting role at Fino Consulting. Yang Xiao holds a Master’s Degree in Computer and Information Science from the University of Pennsylvania, earned between 2010 and 2012.