Varun Sharma

Senior Software Engineer

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India4 yrs 11 mos experience
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Key Highlights

  • Led transformation of Edge delivery infrastructure at LinkedIn.
  • Developed AI tools for intelligent Edge orchestration.
  • Achieved significant cost savings through infrastructure improvements.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Backend-heavy Infrastructure Engineer with expertise in Edge Computing and AI-driven solutions.

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Skills

Core Skills

Edge ComputingSoftware DevelopmentArtificial Intelligence (ai)Cloud Computing

Other Skills

AIOpsAlgorithmsAndroid DevelopmentC (Programming Language)C++Capacity EngineeringCascading Style Sheets (CSS)Content Distribution NetworksDDoS protectionDNSData StructuresDeep LearningDockerDomain Name System (DNS)FastAPI

Experience

4 yrs 11 mos
Total Experience
4 yrs 11 mos
Average Tenure
4 yrs 11 mos
Current Experience

Linkedin

4 roles

Senior Software Engineer, Reliability

Oct 2025Present · 8 mos

  • Building intelligent automation for the Edge!
  • We make sure your requests to linkedin.com reach our Datacenters reliably and blazingly fast.
Edge ComputingSoftware DevelopmentArtificial Intelligence (AI)Machine Learning

Senior Engineer, Site Reliability

Promoted

Sep 2023Oct 2025 · 2 yrs 1 mo

  • - Led the transformation of LinkedIn's Edge delivery infrastructure to a multi-provider architecture, improving resiliency, performance, DDoS protection, and saving millions in serving costs.
Edge ComputingSoftware DevelopmentDDoS protectionPerformance improvement

Site Reliability Engineer

Jul 2021Sep 2023 · 2 yrs 2 mos

  • Edge Infrastructure team - Responsible for owning and managing LinkedIn's Edge Network which includes our Edge-Proxies (Azure Front Door and Cloudflare), Content Delivery Networks and Public DNS.
  • Developed an AI-based tool capable of intelligently orchestrating the Edge (AFD, PoPs, CDNs) using the DNS for optimal end-user availability. This completely automated the mundane task of manual fail-overs, cutting down on several man hours.
  • Worked on migrating site-traffic from LinkedIn's legacy Edge on to Azure Front Door.
  • Collaborated with Microsoft Azure counterparts to help recognise and solve ongoing network issues with the Front Door platform. Devised a Proof of Concept for performing Automated Root Cause Analysis of such issues.
  • Introduced manifold performance improvements to LinkedIn's url short-link feature - lnkd.in - by aligning stakeholders to remove extra redirect and by onboarding it to AFD with Caching at the Edge.
Edge ComputingArtificial Intelligence (AI)Software DevelopmentCloud Computing

Site Reliability Engineering Intern

May 2020Jul 2020 · 2 mos

  • Worked with the Capacity Engineering team to devise an AI pipeline for diagnosing site performance issues and detecting capacity bottlenecks in Linkedin's RESTful service oriented infrastructure.
Artificial Intelligence (AI)Capacity Engineering

Education

Netaji Subhas Institute of Technology

Bachelor of Engineering - BE — Computer Engineering

Aug 2017Jun 2021

Delhi University

Bachelor of Engineering - BE — Computer Engineering

Jan 2017Jan 2021

Central Board of Secondary Education

High School Diploma — Science

Jan 2015Jan 2017

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