Siddharth "Sid" Anand has deep experience designing and scaling high-traffic web sites. Currently, he is a senior member of LinkedIn's Data Infrastructure team focusing on analytics infrastructure. Prior to joining LinkedIn, he served as Netflix's Cloud Database Architect, Etsy's VP of Engineering, a search engineer and researcher at eBay, and a performance engineer at Siebel Systems.He graduated from Cornell University with both BS and M.Eng degrees -- his graduate work focused on distributed computing. Specialties: System Scalability and Performance, Distributed Systems, Algorithms Coordinates: Email: siddharthanand@yahoo.com Twitter: @r39132 LinkedIn : http://www.linkedin.com/in/siddharthanan