Staff Software Engineer at LinkedIn (2022-11 – 2026-05)
- Architected and led the end-to-end migration of a mission-critical distributed CPU retrieval database stack used for LinkedIn Main Feed Storage from legacy JNI to a full Rust implementation, achieving a 100% successful ramp with zero downtime.
- Collaborated with multiple partner teams located in different geo. Resolved critical blockers including OOM issues, gRPC status discrepancies, and service discovery failures that were preventing the above migration work ramp.
- Extended the multi tenancy support for distributed CPU retrieval database to Embedding based usecases that were using different algorithm like KNN, ANN.
- Established knowledge-sharing sessions to bridge communication between global teams, enhancing project alignment.
- Drove cross-functional collaboration, ensuring the successful onboarding of new critical AI models in the managed hosted platform across teams.
- Architected and implemented high-batch size inference support for Managed model hosting platform.
Senior Software Engineer at LinkedIn (2019-11 – 2022-10)
- Led the technical execution and architecture for a next-generation ML Managed serving platform, enabling the first production Alpha ramp for Ads and Careers AI use cases.
- Engineered a 20-25% latency improvement for batch data retrieval across the organization by pioneering the integration of Venice streaming APIs within the internal ML feature fetch library.
- Spearheaded a 4-engineer initiative to integrate third-party Identity Providers (Google/Apple) for LinkedIn Login, resulting in a +1.1% WAU (Weekly Active Users) lift on mobile and a +0.96% lift on web.
- Created a benchmarking suite with the MLPerf framework to ensure system reliability and performance.
- Designed and implemented an nearline Samza job for intelligent event sampling to protect offline data pipelines from 10x volume spikes caused by client misconfigurations.
Software Engineer at LinkedIn (2017-07 – 2019-10)
- Designed and built a robust two-factor authentication system, integrating Microsoft Authenticator for improved security. Collaborated with Msft Authenticator team, cross geo teams in LinkedIn.
- Developed a password-only login flow that drove an additional 55,000 sessions weekly, improving user engagement.
- Integrated Native re-Captcha into Android applications, increasing captcha solve success rates from 65% to 80%.
- Mentored summer intern, leading to the successful production launch of OTP (One-Time Password) link functionality and a fulltime return offer for the mentee.
- Collaborated with other team members and came 1st in the Mobile Hackathon organised in Bangalore office.
Research Intern at Adobe (2017-01 – 2017-06)
Part of Adobe Photoshop Express team.
- Worked towards introducing new features in the IOS Adobe Photoshop Express app.
Software Engineer Internship at LinkedIn (2016-05 – 2016-07)
Low quality, spam, adult content detection in images
Teaching Assistant at Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani (2016-01 – 2016-04)
Teaching Assistant Of Data Structure & Algorithm Course.
Summer Intern at Indian Institute of Remote Sensing (IIRS), Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) (2014-05 – 2014-07)
- Worked on Automatic detection of Coded Targets and their 3D coordinate Points Generation using Close Range Photogrammetry.
- Generated 3D coordinates of coded targets from overlapping photographs.
