Summary
Krit Petty is a Senior Software Engineering Manager and Staff SRE with nine years of experience building and scaling large streaming infrastructures, currently leading Streaming SRE-SWE teams at LinkedIn from San Jose. He specializes in Kafka and pub/sub ecosystems, driving cost-efficient scaling, automation, and Azure-based deployments while often stepping into Incident Commander roles to preserve site reliability and data security. His background spans low-level systems and applied AI—from Unix/Linux administration and large-scale Hadoop data lakes at ExxonMobil to architecting separated controller Kafka deployments at LinkedIn. A people-first leader, he prioritizes career growth for engineers and cross-border collaboration to solve complex operational challenges. Unusually, his early work included running ESL programs and learning Mandarin, a thread that underscores strong communication and teaching skills alongside deep technical expertise.
9 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Master’s Degree Computer Science, Master’s Degree Computer Science at Georgia Institute of Technology
Brigham Young University-Idaho
Bachelor Degree Computer Science; Information Technology, Bachelor Degree Computer Science; Information Technology at Brigham Young University
Chinese, English