Camilla Smith

About Camilla Smith

Senior Software Engineer specializing in high-performance backend infrastructure and distributed systems.Currently building MLOps infrastructure at Airbnb, powering dynamic price suggestions for millions of hosts through scalable ML model serving, training and inference systems.My career has been defined by high-impact technical leadership:• Airbnb (2025-Present): Co-architecting ML infrastructure that accelerates model iteration and drives GBV growth• Dropbox (2024): Led filesystem architecture migration and platform-wide performance audit• Microsoft (20••••23): Led Windows Autopilot initiatives across Intune and Windows, serving millions of enterprise devices; Championed D&I as BAMSEC chairpersonB.S. in Computer Science from Washington State University. Passionate about building robust infrastructure that empowers engineers and creates measurable business impact to delight and excite our customers.

Experience

1. Senior Software Engineer

   Airbnb

   Jan 2025 — Present

   Building world-class MLOps infrastructure on the Pricing Guidance Serving team at Airbnb. I co-architect and develop high-performance backend systems for machine learning model serving, inference, and training that power dynamic price suggestions to delight and excite hosts worldwide.My work enables:• Near real-time smart price suggestions that maximize host revenue and booking rates• Lightning-fast iteration cycles for ML engineers to deploy model improvements• Scalable infrastructure serving millions of pricing predictions globally• Accelerated GBV growth through reduced model iteration timePassionate about building robust ML infrastructure that empowers data scientists and drives measurable business impact on the product.

Education

• Washington State University

  Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science

  2012 — 2017