My Journey to Airbnb — Anna Sulkina

Anna Sulkina has always been a traveler, and we’re lucky her travels have brought her to Airbnb. Anna is a Senior Director of Engineering, and she’s responsible for Application & Cloud infrastructure. She brings over two decades of industry experience to Airbnb, including work spanning the stack from the frontend to the backend to the plumbing that makes everything come together. Anna is a mother, a passionate trail runner, and an accomplished leader. Here’s Anna’s story in her own words. Discovering a passion after the Soviet Union I grew up in Eastern Ukraine, and the year I was graduating from high school, the Soviet Union collapsed. Despite the political turmoil, it was an interesting time to get into technology, and I have my brother to thank for that. I was always a nerdy kid, at school and at home, and my older brother really stoked that curiosity. He was studying computer hardware in Moscow, and he’d bring home computer parts to play with. I still remember the first computer he