Ritesh Maheshwari
Senior Engineering Manager at LinkedIn
Sunnyvale, California, United States
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Top SchoolRitesh Maheshwari is a Senior Engineering Manager with 13 years of experience leading large-scale performance and media platform efforts at LinkedIn from Sunnyvale. He currently runs the Media Experience org, improving video time-to-first-frame by 60–70% on mobile, raising upload reliability, and deploying auto-captions—work that blends client and server optimizations across VOD, live, images, docs and VC. His background in network and site-speed engineering (including TCP, Brotli, RUM and anomaly detection efforts) and prior role at Akamai give him deep expertise in transport, CDN and end-to-end performance. Ritesh pairs data-driven instrumentation and A/B testing with product sensibility to move key engagement metrics, and he’s known for turning complex measurement systems into actionable optimizations. An early researcher in wireless systems with graduate work at Stony Brook and an IIT Kharagpur alumnus, he brings both academic rigor and production-hardened execution to platform engineering.
13 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science & Engineering, Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science & Engineering at Indian Institute of Technology, KharagpurMaster’s Degree, Computer Science, Master’s Degree, Computer Science at Stony Brook University
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Github Skills (54)
gaussian-mixture-models10
anomaly-detection10
correlation10
system-analysis10
naive-bayes10
stacked10
nearest-neighbors9
r9
java9
ensemble-learning9
svm9
pca9
ensembles9
h2o9
statsmodels9
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
linkedin/luminol
Nov 2015 - Jan 2018
Anomaly Detection and Correlation library
Contributions:16 commits, 12 PRs, 11 pushes in 2 years 2 months
anomalyanomaly-detectionmachine-learningcorrelationanomalydetection
LinkedInAttic/naarad
Feb 2013 - Jan 2016
Contributions:339 commits, 16 PRs, 14 pushes in 2 years 11 months
investigationsdata-analysispythonconfigurableperformance-analysis
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