About

Ankit Goyal is a passionate software developer with a diverse experience in various layers of the software stack. As a Staff Software Engineer at LinkedIn, he is currently focused on building scalable Deep Learning infrastructure and increasing developer productivity. Ankit has a strong background in Cloud Infrastructure, having worked on the private cloud at LinkedIn, where he developed a scheduler and onbox components. He also enabled various Linux namespaces to achieve container isolation at a large scale. Ankit has worked on Compilers, where he contributed to the perfexpert project by developing a module for detecting set level associativity cache conflicts for HPC applications. He has also implemented various distributed system protocols such as 3PC, Paxos, and Gossip during his graduate studies. Ankit has experience in building and scaling service-oriented architectures from scratch, having worked at a startup. He has worked on more than 16 microservices and has a strong understanding of Microservices architecture. Ankit is a constant learner and shares his knowledge and experiences through his blog at https://goyalankit.com. He has a Master of Science in Computer and Information Sciences from the University of Texas at Austin and a Bachelor of Technology in Computer Science and Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Jodhpur. Ankit has worked as a Senior Software Engineer and Software Engineer at LinkedIn, where he was involved in implementing network namespaces support, designing and implementing an on-box agent, and completing the Stanford Advanced Computer Security Certification. He has also worked on the allocation engine, Runc containers, and user namespaces. Ankit's broad experience in software engineering, deep learning infrastructure, microservices, iOS, and Swift makes him a valuable asset to any team. He has 9.03 years of relevant experience and is always looking for new challenges and opportunities to grow.