Viranch Mehta

VP of Engineering

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India13 yrs 9 mos experience

Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

Led innovative DNS traffic steering solutions at LinkedIn.
Spearheaded transition to Azure Front Door, enhancing global delivery.
Developed operations tool chain for efficient incident management.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Site Reliability Engineer with expertise in SaaS and cloud infrastructure.

Contact

viranch@linkedin.com LinkedIn

Skills

Core Skills

Web AccelerationTeam ManagementSite Reliability EngineeringCloud ComputingCloud DevelopmentSystems Architecture

Other Skills

Amazon EC2Azure Front DoorBashCDN InfrastructureConfiguration ManagementDNS ManagementDistributed SystemsDockerElasticsearchGitGitlab CIGlobal Service DeliveryGoIcingaIncident Management

About

Experienced Site Reliability Engineer, skilled in Web Acceleration (CDN, RUM steering), and Linux Administration with Python, Docker, ElasticSearch and web development. Strong engineering professional with a Bachelor of Technology (BTech) focused in ICT from DA-IICT.

Experience

13 yrs 9 mos

Total Experience

2 yrs 10 mos

Average Tenure

10 yrs 2 mos

Current Experience

7 roles

Software Engineering Manager

Promoted

Jun 2025 – Present · 11 mos

Led a team of engineers to develop an innovative DNS-based traffic steering solution for LinkedIn's CDNs.
Balanced technical leadership with team management to enhance efficiency and collaboration.
Utilized real user monitoring (RUM), synthetic health, and latency signals to optimize content delivery speed.
Achieved significant improvements in content delivery efficiency, positively impacting user experience.

DNS ManagementTraffic SteeringReal User MonitoringWeb AccelerationTeam Management

Site Reliability Engineering Manager

Promoted

Jan 2023 – May 2025 · 2 yrs 4 mos

I managed a dedicated team focused on the configuration, operations and overall orchestration of LinkedIn's dual-DNS and multi-CDN external partners. This strategic oversight was crucial in ensuring that our site content was delivered efficiently to millions of members worldwide.

Configuration ManagementOperations OrchestrationSite Reliability Engineering

Apprentice Manager

Mar 2022 – Jan 2023 · 10 mos

Transitioned to a leadership role, managing team dynamics while maintaining technical oversight.
Successfully navigated organizational changes, including reorgs and layoffs, while preserving team morale.
Ensured the timely delivery of critical projects, contributing to LinkedIn's site reliability and availability.

Team Management

Staff Site Reliability Engineer

Oct 2020 – Mar 2022 · 1 yr 5 mos

Senior Site Reliability Engineer

Promoted

Aug 2018 – Sep 2020 · 2 yrs 1 mo

Spearheaded LinkedIn's transition from private Points of Presence (POPs) to Microsoft's Azure Front Door (AFD), enhancing global service delivery.
Expanded LinkedIn's global footprint from 20 to over 200 AFD POPs, significantly improving peering and backbone capabilities.
Collaborated with cross-functional teams to ensure seamless integration and deployment, fostering innovation and efficiency.

Azure Front DoorGlobal Service DeliveryCloud Computing

Senior Site Reliability Engineer

Promoted

Oct 2017 – Jul 2018 · 9 mos

Site Reliability Engineer

Nov 2015 – Sep 2017 · 1 yr 10 mos

Looking after LinkedIn's DNS and CDN infrastructure with a focus on optimizing member experience and building tools around these technologies to support rapidly changing optimization techniques. Also support external synthetic monitoring for LinkedIn's key web services and collect key performance metrics.

DNS ManagementCDN InfrastructureSite Reliability Engineering

Directi

4 roles

Systems Architect

Promoted

Jul 2015 – Oct 2015 · 3 mos

Worked on developing operations tool chain to automate various operations workflows and enable operations engineers to follow incident management, change management workflows effectively by providing intelligent alerting systems, incident correlation & auto-aggregation, SLA calculation and product health reports, troubleshooting knowledgebase, etc. This project involved various web technologies like Elasticsearch, Redis, MySQL, RabbitMQ, Ruby/Sinatra (+HTML/CSS/JS, Bootstrap & various JS/Jquery libraries), along with operations tools like Puppet & the Docker ecosystem.
Also worked on various operations tools like Puppet, Nagios/Icinga & Logstash for the automation, monitoring and metrics aspects of the huge server and network infrastructure.
I set up a distributed monitoring system (datacenter-wise monitoring that is centrally aggregated).

Operations Tool ChainIncident ManagementSystems Architecture