Managing Distributed/Remote Teams Fireside Chat
Musaab At-Taras
Musaab is a Director of Engineering for the Airbnb Payments Platform. He’s spent the last 15 years building payments systems and platforms at eBay, Magento, Poynt and PayPal. As an engineering leader he’s grown and managed teams of all different sizes with with most of his teams being distributed geographically. He’s currently also functioning as the Site Lead for Airbnb new South Bay office
Vijaya Kaza
Vijaya is the Chief Security Officer and Head of Trust Engineering & Data Science at Airbnb, responsible for Information Security and Trust Technology to protect Airbnb's community and platform. Prior to joining Airbnb, Vijaya was the Chief Development Officer at Lookout Inc., a SaaS cybersecurity startup for the post perimeter world. At Lookout, Vijaya was responsible for all aspects of product development including engineering, infrastructure & cloud operations, threat research and Information Security. Before that, Vijaya served as Senior Vice President of Cloud Products & Engineering at FireEye, building FireEye’s SaaS offerings while transitioning the Company’s traditional on-premise technologies to the cloud. Prior to FireEye, Vijaya served for 17 years in multiple executive and leadership roles at Cisco, where she led product development for a broad portfolio of security products that generated more than $1B in annual revenue
