About

Rakesh Kashyap is a Senior Software Engineer at LinkedIn, specializing in building scalable infrastructure for data scientists. With over 7 years of relevant experience, he has a strong background in software engineering, infrastructure, and machine learning. Prior to joining LinkedIn, Rakesh worked at Apple, where he was responsible for building ETLs and high throughput, real-time, distributed, machine learning platforms for data scientists. He also worked on an online fraud detection platform, where he applied machine learning to detect and prevent fraudulent activities. Before joining Apple, Rakesh was a Software Development Engineer at Microsoft, where he worked on the Azure-SQL Data Warehouse team. In this role, he gained valuable experience in SQL, data warehousing, and cloud computing. Rakesh holds a B-Tech in Computer Science from the National Institute of Technology Karnataka, as well as a Master's in Computer Science from the University of Southern California. He also has a background in education, having attended Sri Kumaran's Children's Home (CBSE) for junior high/intermediate/middle school education and teaching. Rakesh is proficient in a variety of technologies, including software engineering, infrastructure, machine learning, ETL, SQL, data warehousing, and Azure. He is passionate about building scalable infrastructure for data scientists and is constantly looking for ways to improve his skills and knowledge in this field.