Shan Valleru is a Senior Software Engineer with 11 years of experience building cloud-native platforms and orchestration systems, currently as a founding engineer of LinkedIn’s Kubernetes team that delivered the company’s first production-grade clusters for ML, online, and offline workloads. He has a strong track record across enterprises—Salesforce, VMware, Cisco—creating developer-facing infrastructure (on-demand workspaces, containerized DBs) and networking/cloud orchestration products that scaled to large customers. Practical and hands-on, Shan combines systems design, platform delivery, and team leadership, having led OKRs that made Kubernetes the compute platform of choice at LinkedIn and onboarded a 2K DAU hosted notebook product. He’s augmenting his technical depth with an Executive MBA from Wharton, signaling a deliberate pivot toward people management and strategic leadership. An unadvertised strength: he routinely moves ideas from prototype to production single-handedly, then coaches teams to scale them.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Graduate Certificate Program- Machine Learning & Data Science, Graduate Certificate Program- Machine Learning & Data Science at University of California, Berkeley
Master's degree, Computer Science, Master's degree, Computer Science at Texas Tech University
Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University Hyderabad
Executive MBA, Executive MBA at The Wharton School
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Shan Valleru - Senior Software Engineer at LinkedIn