Ross Buhrdorf, CTO of HomeAway

Ross Buhrdorf is the Chief Technology Officer of Austin-based HomeAway. He joined the company five months after its inception and oversees technology, trust and security, hosting, corporate IT, infrastructure and global customer systems. During his tenure at HomeAway he has built the development and engineering team from five to more than 200 global employees. He has been instrumental in integrating multiple technology systems to contribute to the company’s rapid growth.
Buhrdorf successfully led HomeAway through its first Super Bowl campaign in February 2010, ensuring HomeAway.com was equipped to handle the sizable traffic surge generated from its first national ad. Ultimately, the company ranked second in site traffic generated from a Super Bowl ad, according to Akami, and second for site performance and responsiveness, according to Compuware Gomez.
Prior to joining HomeAway, Buhrdorf worked in the enterprise high IP software business as the Vice President of Engineering and Chief Technology Officer at BetweenMarkets and Salion.com. There he created a development process featured as a case study by Carnegie Mellon’s Software Engineering Institute and Rational Corporation.
Ross was also Vice President of Engineering at Excite.com where he grew the team from one to more than 200 engineers worldwide, handled multiple acquisitions and drove the “Communities” area of the site from 53,000 to 40 million daily page views, ultimately helping Excite become the fastest-growing company in Silicon Valley in 2000.
Ross began his career in technology with positions in software engineering at DataGeneral, Tandem Computers and HAL Computers. He earned his bachelor’s degree in computer science from the University of Texas at Austin.

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