Presentation: "Data Infrastructure @ LinkedIn"

Time: Wednesday 10:50 - 11:50

Location: Salon D

Abstract:

With over 150 Million members worldwide, LinkedIn is an indispensible means to connect professionals the world over. By mining data from its ever-growing professional network, LinkedIn recommends jobs, connections, skills, and ads to its members. Using this same information, LinkedIn has proven itself a reliable hiring tool for companies in search of skilled talent. As LinkedIn continues to grow in popularity and features, its need for fast access to large sets of rapdily evolving data will grow. How are we handling these challenges? Come and find out about LinkedIn's data infrastructure products.

Siddharth Anand, Senior Member, Distributed Data Systems, LinkedIn

 Siddharth  Anand

Siddharth "Sid" Anand has deep experience designing and scaling high-traffic web sites. Currently, he is a senior member of LinkedIn's Distributed Systems team. 

Prior to joining Linked In, 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

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Email : siddharthanand@yahoo.com

Twitter : @r39132

LinkedIn : http://www.linkedin.com/in/siddharthanand