Shekhar Valluri is a Principal Staff Software Engineer in San Francisco with 12 years of experience building developer-facing tooling and large-scale systems at LinkedIn. He has advanced through engineering roles at LinkedIn focused on code collaboration, CI workflows, mobile build tools, and a horizontally scalable code indexing architecture that processed millions of files and cut indexing time tenfold. Known for blending hands-on implementation with operational thinking, he’s driven projects that automated ticket triage using ML and improved developer productivity across the company. Prior to LinkedIn he shipped production iOS apps at high-growth startups and freelanced on enterprise mobile solutions, giving him full-stack empathy from device to backend. Hekhar combines technical depth in build and developer experience with a track record of scaling systems and teams in large organizations. Outside core responsibilities he tends to gravitate toward problems that make engineering work more observable and automatable.
12 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Science (Physics, Chemistry, Maths, Computers), Science (Physics, Chemistry, Maths, Computers) at Don Bosco School, Alaknanda, New Delhi
Bachelor of Technology, Computer Science & Engineering, Bachelor of Technology, Computer Science & Engineering at Vellore Institute of Technology
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