Tejala Thippeswamy is a proficient software engineer with extensive experience in software development and engineering roles, currently employed at Airbnb since July 2021. Previously, Tejala served as a Lead Software Engineer at Visa from February 2016 to June 2021, where responsibilities included designing a risk detection platform, managing cross-functional team collaborations, and mentoring team members. Earlier roles at Visa also involved building alerting applications and developing big data web applications. Tejala's engineering journey includes a tenure as an Associate Staff Engineer at Oracle, focusing on real-time issue resolution and feature enhancement. An educational background includes a Master's degree in Computer Science from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science from M.S Ramaiah Institute of Technology.