Niniane serves as CTO of Minted, a social commerce site and design marketplace which crowd-sources graphic designs and art from a global community and sells those as printed paper products Previously Niniane spent over a decade leading engineering teams at Google and Microsoft. She was on the founding team of Desktop Search, for which she won a Google Founder's Award. She also led Gmail Ads, founded Google Lively, and was previously an engineering manager on Microsoft Flight Simulator. Niniane is an inventor on 30 patents, filed and pending. She holds a MS in computer science from University of Washington, and a BS in computer science from Caltech, which she received at age 18. www.airbnb.com/techtalks