Samir Jafferali

SRE (Site Reliability Engineer)

San Francisco, California, United States24 yrs 3 mos experience

Highly Stable

Key Highlights

Scaled LinkedIn infrastructure from 200M to 1.2B members
Led migration of LinkedIn to Azure cloud
Co-founded LinkedIn's LGBTQIA+ resource group

Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS Infrastructure Engineer with extensive experience in cloud migration and DNS management.

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Skills

Core Skills

Cloud ComputingScalabilityDnsLoad BalancingAutomationDistributed Computing

Other Skills

LinuxNetworkingSystem AdministrationIPv6Data AnalysisCircuit SimulationShell ScriptingPerlHigh AvailabilityVirtualizationApacheWeb CachingDistributed SystemsMySQLRedHat

About

Currently on sabbatical, focused on AI across both development and diffusion models. From Codex, Claude, and OpenClaw orchestration to advanced Nano Banana, Veo, Higgsfield, ComfyUI, Seedance etc. Over 12 years at LinkedIn, I scaled global infrastructure to support growth from 200 million to 1.2 billion members, building a worldwide footprint, leading its migration to Azure, and growing teams and talent along the way.

Experience

24 yrs 3 mos

Total Experience

6 yrs

Average Tenure

Current Experience

3 roles

Senior Staff Site Reliability Engineer

Promoted

Jun 2019 – Nov 2025 · 6 yrs 5 mos

I ensure LinkedIn is available and fast to 1.2 billion members by orchestrating an intelligent Internet edge.
Team Lead + 2030 Edge Strategy
DDoS protection / Multi-CDN / RUM DNS / Map of the Internet
Migrated www.linkedin.com to Azure
Co-chair for annual internal Engineering conference

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Staff Edge Site Reliability Engineer

Promoted

Sep 2016 – May 2019 · 2 yrs 8 mos

SRE[in]con 2018 vice-chair
Evangelizing RUM DNS and Dual DNS
Lead migration to NS1 DNS platform
Architected real-time RUM DNS that steers www.linkedin.com

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Sr Edge Site Reliability Engineer

Sep 2013 – Sep 2016 · 3 yrs

Co-founded LinkedIn's LGBTQIA+ employee resource group Out@In
Scaled GSLB management from 2 PoPs to our current global footprint
Architected BCP failover strategies
Deployed real-time RUM based DNS to steer our CDNs
Administered 5 CDNs; 3 global and 2 in China
Administered 3 DNS platforms
Lead efforts with IPv6, Anycast, and LinkedIn's China launch
Member of multiple Customer Advisory Boards
Primary on-call for all production issues

DNSIPv6Load BalancingAutomation

Yahoo

Sr Production Engineer

Sep 2011 – Aug 2013 · 1 yr 11 mos · Sunnyvale, CA

Ran Yahoo!'s RUM DNS platform that steers the Front Page, Ads, Mail, Flickr, and Y!'s CDN.
Won Marissa's CEO Challenge by accelerating DNS performance.
Lead IPv6 DNS roll out and wrote/hit "launch" automation for IPv6 Day.
Augment data collection and analysis for RUM based steering.
Increase automation & monitoring, BCP planning, customer onboarding.
Manage global set of Red Hat authoritative name servers.
Optimize routing & serving performance.
Primary on-call for all production issues.

DNSIPv6AutomationData Analysis

Cdnetworks

Sr Production Engineer

Feb 2011 – Sep 2011 · 7 mos · San Jose, CA

Administered 100+ PoP CDN and anycast DNS GSLB platform.
Plan and deploy Linux OSes/kernels & applications & service bands & Points of Presence.
Built out the Megafon Russian footprint https://www.cdnetworks.com/sg/en/products/russia-acceleration
Collaborate with Engineering, Networking, and Systems to meet service delivery needs.
Monitor performance, resolve service interruptions, and perform root cause and log analysis.
Handle escalations from Tier 3 Support engineers.

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