Arifulla Shariff

About Arifulla Shariff

Engineering Leader with 15+ years of experience building and scaling mission-critical platforms across consumer and infrastructure domains. Currently leading an 18-engineer organization at LinkedIn responsible for the company-wide client tracking platform that powers product analytics, advertising systems, AI model training, and core business metrics.Own a public-facing, high-availability mid-tier service processing ~1M QPS with a 99.99% SLA, serving all LinkedIn engineering teams. Driving a company-wide transformation from 1200+ fragmented custom events to a unified Generic Events model, significantly reducing product team maintenance overhead while unlocking scalable, self-serve analytics.Passionate about building high-performing teams, simplifying complex systems at scale, and driving platform standardization that improves developer velocity and business impact. Experienced in platform architecture, reliability engineering, developer productivity, and AI-enabled systems.

Experience

1. Software Engineering Manager

   Linkedin

   Jun 2024 — Present · Bengaluru, IN

   Lead an 18-engineer organization owning LinkedIn’s end-to-end client tracking platform powering all engineering teams company-wide. The platform underpins advertising systems, AI model training, product analytics, and core business metrics reported to Microsoft and public earnings- Own a public-facing, mission-critical mid-tier service processing ~1M QPS with 99.99% SLA, ensuring highly available real-time ingestion into Kafka for company-wide downstream consumers- Driving a company-wide standardization initiative migrating from 1200+ custom tracking events to 2 unified Generic Events, significantly reducing event fragmentation, lowering maintenance overhead for product teams, and unlocking scalable product analytics- Building a metadata-driven, managed Flink infrastructure to replace custom SQL pipelines, shifting product teams from writing Flink jobs to declarative configuration and reducing onboarding time from days to minutes- Own SDK architecture across Android, iOS, and Web, enabling consistent client-side data collection across all product surfaces- Developed full-stack internal tooling used across LinkedIn engineering to define schemas and metadata powering core business metrics- Expanding the platform into self-serve product analytics (funnel analysis, session replay, page-level metrics) and AI-driven insights via MCP server and agent-based Tracking Bot.

Education

• Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani

  Master of Technology (M.Tech.), Computer Science

  2014 — 2016

• PES University

  Bachelor of Engineering (BE), Computer Science

  2005 — 2009

Skills

• Shell Scripting
• Software Engineering
• Javascript
• C#
• Test Automation
• Web Services
• Mysql
• Software Development
• Python
• Algorithm Design
• Core Java
• Testing
• Algorithms
• Data Structures
• Sql
• Linux
• C++
• Software Design
• C
• Programming
• Databases
• Selenium
• Java
• Unix
• Perl