Joshua Dykstra
Engineering Manager at Airbnb
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJoshua Dykstra is an engineering manager with 11 years of experience building consumer-facing products that connect people, currently leading a 12-engineer cross-platform team in Airbnb’s Search Product group. He progressed from full‑stack engineer to manager across Airbnb and Cisco, shipping features on web, iOS, Android, and backend systems for experiences, homepage, and collaboration tools. His hands-on background includes driving growth initiatives, modularizing front-end component libraries, and contributing to Cisco’s Webex JavaScript SDK—implementing team-management verbs and encryption-aware transforms. Based in San Francisco and trained at UCLA in computer science, he combines product-minded leadership with day-to-day engineering fluency and a knack for turning complex integrations into production-ready features.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer Science at University of California, Los Angeles
Github Skills (8)
team-management10
javascript10
sdk10
webex10
encryption9
unit-testing8
integration-testing8
react4
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
webex/webex-js-sdk
Aug 2016 - Nov 2016
JavaScript SDK for Webex
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:17 commits, 7 PRs, 158 comments in 2 months
Contributions summary:Joshua primarily contributed to the `plugin-team` module, focused on features related to team management within the Webex JavaScript SDK. Their work included implementing new team verbs (addMember, assignModerator, etc.), creating and retrieving teams and team conversations, and refactoring code to leverage transforms for encryption/decryption. They addressed code review feedback and whitespace/documentation issues.
javascriptwebex
josh-dykstra/personal-site
Feb 2023 - Dec 2023
Contributions:16 PRs, 24 pushes, 12 branches in 9 months
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