Anu Saxena
Director Of Engineering at LinkedIn
San Jose, California, United States
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Top SchoolAnu Saxena is a seasoned engineering leader based in San Jose with over a decade of senior leadership experience and a 15+ year trajectory managing and scaling engineering organizations. Currently Director of Engineering at LinkedIn, she previously led engineering teams at TripAdvisor and served as VP of Engineering at XOS Digital, bringing cross-industry expertise from consumer travel to enterprise software and CDN systems. Known for translating research-driven insights (including a postdoctoral background at MIT) into product-focused execution, she blends technical depth with a track record of building high-performing teams and reliable, scalable systems. Her career arc reflects a rare mix of hands-on engineering roots at Akamai and long-term strategic leadership, making her adept at bridging deep technical challenges and business outcomes.
11 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Indian Institute of Technology Delhi (IIT Delhi)Bachelor’s Degree EE, Bachelor’s Degree EE at Madan Mohan Malaviya University of TechnologyIndian Institute of Technology RoorkeePostdoc EE, Postdoc EE at Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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Github Skills (8)
kafka10
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ai10
database10
hadoop9
planetscale9
machine-learning8
ml8
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
asaxena76/venice
Oct 2022 - Jul 2024
Venice, Derived Data Platform for planet-scale workloads.
Contributions:2 PRs, 45 pushes, 13 branches in 1 year 9 months
planetderived-dataworkloadsvenicederived
asaxena76/todo.txt-cli
Aug 2017 - Aug 2017
Contributions:1 push in 1 day
txtlinuxbashshell-scriptextensible
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