About

Greg Arnold is a highly experienced and accomplished VP Engineering at LinkedIn. With almost 40 years of relevant experience, Greg is responsible for leading a team of over 250 individuals at LinkedIn. He started at LinkedIn leading the applications for premium subscribers, and later expanded his responsibilities to oversee platforms for partner and enterprise integration, and open-source data infrastructure. Greg has an impressive track record of leading successful teams at LinkedIn. He has led several teams, including the Data Infrastructure team, which builds scalable storage, real-time stream processing, and analytics and machine learning platforms. The Premium Subscriptions team, which provides advanced networking and insights for job seekers and senior leaders, and the Connected Enterprise team, which makes employees more productive and helps companies leverage their employees' networks. He has also led the Commerce platform team, which powers the $2B online ordering, recurring billing and payments worldwide, and is streamlining the $3B field sales workflow. Additionally, Greg has led the API Platform and Developer Relations team, which enables developers to integrate with LinkedIn, and the Enterprise Platform team, which enables companies to administer their paid services, including single sign-on, and provisioning licenses to employees through a corporate account portal. Before joining LinkedIn, Greg worked as the Vice President of Premium Services at Yahoo, where he developed global ordering, billing, and payment platforms to power advertising and consumer paid services. He also worked as the Product Development Leader at Intuit, where he headed the software development and QA teams for QuickBooks Small Business Accounting Application for the Macintosh platform. During his tenure at these companies, Greg introduced Agile Development Process, which offered improved visibility, responsiveness to change based on customer feedback, and early testing during development. Greg has an impressive educational background, with a Master's degree in EE and Computer Science from Stanford University, an MBA from Pepperdine, and a Bachelor's degree in Electromechanical systems from Cal State U, Northridge. His tech stack includes Senior Software Engineer, Infra, ML, Integration, QA, Software Engineer, Product Manager, and Test.