Pratham Alag
Staff Software Engineer at LinkedIn
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolPratham Alag is a Staff Software Engineer and AI Infrastructure Tech Lead at LinkedIn with 12 years of experience building production ML systems that serve over a billion users. He has led cross-functional teams to re-architect the Feed experience, introduce Feed AI models and personalized reranking, and drive infra-first features like Team Moments and hashtag-driven engagement. Comfortable across infra, ML, backend and client stacks, he’s repeatedly shipped end-to-end experiences—from new member onboarding to large-scale relevance models—while balancing product and engineering trade-offs. Early work spans developer tooling and SDKs, and his background at UC Berkeley and long tenure at LinkedIn reflect a blend of research curiosity and production rigor. Notably, he focuses on edge and novice-member experiences, shifting model and infra design to better serve underrepresented user journeys.
12 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS), Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, Bachelor of Science (BS), Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences at University of California, BerkeleyCBSE, Science, CBSE, Science at Delhi Public School - R. K. Puram
Punjabi, French, Hindi, English
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Github Skills (17)
data-api7
curl6
ruby-on-rails6
rails-app6
rest-client6
ruby6
rubygems6
autodesk5
api5
uploading5
authentication4
viewer3
dump3
prototyping3
rails3
Github contributions (5)
GetSomeRest/adn_viewer
Jul 2015 - Aug 2015
Contributions:43 commits, 8 PRs, 33 pushes in 1 month
ruby-on-railsapidata-apirails-appruby-gem
GetSomeRest/sample-ruby-on-rails-app-prototyping
Jun 2015 - Aug 2015
Contributions:64 commits, 7 PRs, 58 pushes in 1 month
apidata-apiprototypingautodeskpower
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