Himanshu Kandwal
Staff Software Engineer at LinkedIn
Mountain View, California, United States
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Top SchoolHimanshu Kandwal is a Staff Software Engineer with 11 years of experience building distributed systems and backend services, currently designing core primitives for LinkedIn’s data infrastructure. He specializes in distributed architecture, RESTful API development, CI, and Linux, and has advanced academic training with a Master’s in Computer Science from UT Dallas. At LinkedIn he has progressed from Software Engineer to Staff, contributing to foundational projects like Helix and Zookeeper that power large-scale coordination and cluster management. Prior roles at Zillow and Walmart Labs sharpened his production-grade engineering across high-throughput, real-world systems. Based in Mountain View, he blends deep systems expertise with pragmatic delivery habits that make infrastructure both reliable and evolvable. Beyond work, his continued open-source contributions reflect a commitment to improving the tooling that keeps modern data platforms running.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Master’s Degree Computer Science, Master’s Degree Computer Science at The University of Texas at DallasBachelor of Technology (B.Tech) Computer Science, Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech) Computer Science at Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University
English, Hindi
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Github Skills (38)
kotlin10
groovy10
java10
cpp10
helix10
gradle10
apache9
injection9
guice9
python9
big-data9
amazon9
azkaban9
automation9
scheduling9
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
himanshukandwal/algorithms-design-and-analysis
Aug 2016 - Sep 2019
Repository for designing and solving various interesting algorithms
Contributions:1713 commits, 1657 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 1 month
pythoncppsolvinginterestingcompetitive-programming
himanshukandwal/wpl-cookies
Nov 2016 - Dec 2016
Contributions:91 commits, 88 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
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