About

Aditya Modi is a Senior Engineering Manager at LinkedIn with over 11 years of relevant experience. He is currently leading teams across Infrastructure and Productivity, building infrastructure and designing architecture for the API server that serves over 700 million members using the Web, Android, and iOS LinkedIn app. Aditya is also leading a complete re-write of the app that breaks monolith into several micro-services, involving 400+ engineers across 20+ teams spanning 5+ orgs in 3 different time zones. This project is projected to improve dev downtime by 50%+ and sets the app to keep scaling at an unprecedented 40%+ Y/Y growth rate. Aditya has a proven track record of success, having grown the team from 3 engineers to 9 as an Engineering Manager at LinkedIn, and his team built infrastructure and designed the architecture to support a 100% increase in traffic Y/Y, 40% growth in size of codebase Y/Y and 20% increase in contributors Y/Y. He also set up and operationalized a review committee that oversees architecture and model design for the Flagship API application, which is the first review committee for front-end services at LinkedIn. Aditya has a strong educational background, having completed a Master's degree in Computer Science from the University of California, Los Angeles, and a Bachelor's degree in Information Technology from Dwarkadas J. Sanghvi College of Engineering. His technical skills include Senior Software Engineer, infra, Android, iOS, Web, Software Engineer, Microservices, and Frontend. Aditya is a highly respected leader and has chaired the Sr SWE Promotion committee for the Consumer Engineering Org at LinkedIn.