About

Kanika Vats is a highly skilled Staff Software Engineer at LinkedIn with over 13 years of experience in the field. She possesses a strong technical background in Identity Management & Cloud Platform (SAAS & PAAS), with a keen eye for connecting dots and placing the missing blocks of the puzzle. Kanika is enthusiastic about taking on challenging problems and is always eager to learn new things while playing around with her existing strengths. She has solid execution skills, which she applies through cross-functional collaboration, stakeholder and project management. Currently, Kanika is the Global owner of Job Posting integrations and leads all LinkedIn Talent Solutions partnership integrations for APAC & EMEA. Prior to joining LinkedIn, she spent 9+ years at Oracle, where she was involved in the development of Identity Management Solutions. She played a key role in developing Oracle's Key Management Service from scratch and also owned Oracle's OAuth server's authorization module microservice. Kanika's past experiences include working as a Senior Partner Engineer at LinkedIn and as a Principal Member of the Technical Staff at Oracle. In her role at Oracle, she led the development of Restful APIs for Service Manager Microservice for Key Management Cloud Service (KMCS). She handled all E2E integration activities for Oracle Public Cloud to uptake KMCS service and acquired knowledge on Hardware Security Module, which is used for key persistence. Kanika holds a BE in Information Technology from Delhi College of Engineering and completed her 12th from Delhi Public School - Vasant Kunj. Her tech stack includes Software Engineer, Senior Software Engineer, Microservices, Infra, and Integration. Kanika's promotion to Staff Software Engineer at LinkedIn is a testimony to her hard work, great support, and sponsorship from her peers & leadership.