Summary
Akshay Jain is a Staff Software Engineer based in Sunnyvale with 10 years of experience building large-scale backend and tooling systems, currently driving ad stack work for LinkedIn's LMS. He progressed through roles in tools and LMS at LinkedIn after earlier engineering stints at Microsoft, Amazon, and a computer vision startup, giving him deep experience in search/ranking, serverless execution platforms, and production ML pipelines. At LinkedIn he worked on infrastructure that supports massive remote task execution and CI/CD for microservices, reflecting a focus on reliability and operational scale. He holds a MS in Computer Science from UC Irvine and a B.Tech from IITH, pairing strong academic foundations with practical system engineering. Colleagues would describe him as a pragmatic engineer who bridges data-driven features and resilient platform design while mentoring teams through complex deployments.
10 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.) Computer Software Engineering, Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.) Computer Software Engineering at Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad
University of California, Irvine
Hindi, English