About

Ravikiran R is a Senior Site Reliability Engineer at LinkedIn, with over 5 years of experience in the field. He has a Bachelor of Engineering in Computer Science and Engineering from Sir M Visvesvaraya Institute of Technology. Ravikiran has a strong expertise in distributed systems, infrastructure, Hadoop, and mobile. In his current role at LinkedIn, Ravikiran is responsible for enabling automated OS upgrades on some of the largest Hadoop installations. He has also worked on improving the exabyte scale data infrastructure platforms that power features like job and people recommendations for the 800 million members on LinkedIn. Prior to LinkedIn, Ravikiran worked as a Software Development Engineer at InMobi, where he was a part of the Production and Infrastructure Engineering team. He was responsible for supporting migration of applications and data from on-prem data centres to Azure. He also built tools, scripts, and dashboards to ease operations and managed globally distributed clusters of Kafka, Flume, and Hadoop. Ravikiran is passionate about his work in distributed systems and is always looking for new challenges. He believes in continuous learning and is always looking for opportunities to improve his skills. He is also interested in mentoring and has shared his knowledge on SRE at LinkedIn's School of SRE. In his LinkedIn summary, Ravikiran asks, "What's your super power?" indicating his interest in learning about others' strengths and skills. With his strong technical background and passion for distributed systems, Ravikiran is a valuable asset to any team.