Nisheedh Raveendran
Senior Staff Engineer @ LinkedIn | Tech Lead for Feed Indexing
- Role
- Senior Staff Engineer at Linkedin
- Location
- Bellevue, WA, US
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About Nisheedh Raveendran
With over a decade of experience in software engineering, I currently serve as a Senior…
Experience
Senior Staff Engineer
Jan 2022 — Present · Bellevue, WA, US
Tech Lead for LinkedIn’s Feed Indexing team, leading a group of 10 engineers responsible for FollowFeed, the real-time indexing service that powers the LinkedIn main feed. Drove key initiatives across retrieval engines, rust based retrieval engine, and KTLO operations with a strong emphasis on performance, scalability, and operational excellence.Led the JDK 21/ZGC upgrade—LinkedIn\'s first production deployment—delivering a 28% capacity increase and major latency improvements. Resolved critical OOM issues that unblocked gRPC and rust retrieval engine ramps and improved debugging efficiency by enhancing data parity analysis and logging.Collaborated cross-functionally with Microsoft JDK, Kafka, SI, and IRP teams to shape JVM tuning, gRPC resiliency, and native Rust client architecture, ensuring production-safe rollouts and long-term platform reliability.Delivered infrastructure optimizations including embedding efficiency, RocksDB compaction management, and 100+ GiB memory allocation reduction, while establishing SRE 3.0 practices, automating ops workflows, and improving canary success rate by 90%. Created latency dashboards and SOPs, increasing incident auto-remediation from 40% to 93%.Influenced strategic org-wide initiatives like Feed 2.0 and Rust adoption, mentored engineers, and aligned infra, AI, and product teams toward delivering scalable, high-performance social content systems. Regularly contributed to tech talks and offsite presentations, advancing platform engineering craftsmanship and culture.
Education
Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani
Master of Science
Skills
- C++
- Unix
- Multithreading
- Software Design
- Scalability
- Software Engineering
- Java Enterprise Edition
- Enterprise Software
- Web Services
- Distributed Systems
- Software Development
- Scrum
- Object Oriented Design
- Java
- Shell Scripting
- Xml
- Rest
- Agile Methodologies
- Web Applications
- C
- Linux
- Design Patterns
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