Chief Technology Officer, Airbnb.
Led generative AI at Meta, overseeing AI research, model development and product integration. Spent 16 years at Apple, including work on the original iPhone and autonomous systems.
Why their word counts: Leads Airbnb's technology strategy and its engineering and data science teams, so Al-Dahle sees engineering metrics first-hand; Al-Dahle also has an interest in presenting Airbnb's AI transformation favorably.
Profile from this source, checked 2026-10-19.
Photo: Ahmad Al-Dahle's own profile picture on X.
So while we solve 50% of the tickets, we're actually deliberate about the tickets we don't choose to solve yet [with agents].
Ahmad Al-DahleChief Technology Officer · Executive, 
Airbnb
Interview: Latent Space (independent AI engineering publication), Latent Space (independent AI engineering publication), October 2, 2026. Reported by Richard MacManus.
agents spin up to then triage and run your on-call
Ahmad Al-DahleChief Technology Officer · Executive, Airbnb
Interview: Latent Space (independent AI engineering publication), Latent Space (independent AI engineering publication), October 2, 2026. Reported by Richard MacManus.
every engineer must be able to explain, even if an AI generated the PR, must be able to explain what they built.
Ahmad Al-DahleChief Technology Officer · Executive, Airbnb
Interview: Latent Space (independent AI engineering publication), Latent Space (independent AI engineering publication), October 2, 2026. Reported by Richard MacManus.
We have our own internal agent that we call AirChat, which [includes] basically all the necessary MCP organizational context,
Ahmad Al-DahleChief Technology Officer · Executive, Airbnb
Interview: Latent Space (independent AI engineering publication), Latent Space (independent AI engineering publication), October 2, 2026. Reported by Richard MacManus.