Salil Kanitkar
Tech Lead - Observability Infra at LinkedIn
San Francisco Bay Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSalil Kanitkar is a seasoned tech lead with 15 years building observability and distributed systems infrastructure, currently leading Observability Infra for Fluent-Bit and OpenTelemetry SDKs at LinkedIn. He previously led LinkedIn’s HODOR project and has deep expertise across MELT (metrics, events, logs, traces), resilient service infrastructure, data pipelines, and real-time streaming. Comfortable shifting between hands-on systems engineering and technical leadership, Salil has a track record of performance benchmarking, virtualization, and API development from roles at LinkedIn and VMware. Based in the San Francisco Bay Area, he combines academic foundations (MS in Computer Science) with practical experience shipping production-grade telemetry and reliability platforms at scale. A quieter strength is his ability to translate low-level performance tuning into organization-wide observability practices that reduce operational toil.
15 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
MS Computer Science, MS Computer Science at North Carolina State UniversityBE Computer Engg, BE Computer Engg at Pune Institute of Computer Technology
Github Skills (5)
thread-library7
pthreads6
thread5
machine-learning3
artificial-intelligence2
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
salilkanitkar/cache_simulator
Feb 2012 - Apr 2012
Contributions:20 commits in 2 months
salilkanitkar/IP_P1_ChordLT
Aug 2011 - Oct 2011
Contributions:31 commits in 1 month
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