Mahesh Vishwanath
Senior Staff Software Engineer at LinkedIn
San Jose, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMahesh Vishwanath is a Senior Staff Software Engineer in San Jose with eight years of experience building scalable API and backend platforms, primarily driving LinkedIn’s Profile ecosystem. He currently leads next-generation entity management and querying infrastructure and has been the tech lead for foundational Profile APIs, migration to gRPC, and introducing generative AI features to profile experiences. Mahesh combines hands-on system design—distributed caching, auto-migration tooling for hundreds of microservices—and developer advocacy as the owner of the backend developer persona group. He routinely bridges product and infra teams, serving on flagship model review and API platform committees to ensure safe, scalable rollouts. A former machine-learning research assistant and early iOS contributor at LinkedIn, he brings both analytical rigor and cross-stack familiarity to complex platform problems.
8 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Computer Science, Bachelor's degree Computer Science at University of Illinois Urbana-ChampaignHigh School Diploma, High School Diploma at Monta Vista High School
English, Spanish
Github Skills (29)
onesignal9
riak9
vpc-peering9
multi-tier8
cqrs7
firebase7
mongodb7
react7
docker6
sharding6
autoscaling6
instagram6
architecture6
devops5
load-balancer5
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
vishumanvi/EasyReturns
Feb 2019 - Oct 2019
Contributions:8 pushes, 1 branch in 8 months
nguyensjsu/fa18-202-mavericks
Nov 2018 - Nov 2018
Contributions:2 PRs, 23 pushes, 1 branch in 15 days
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