# Arun K. > Staff Engineer | Designed LinkedIn’s Next-Gen Deployment Platform | Infra & Platform Leader | Cloud Infra | Distributed Systems Location: San Jose, California, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/arunk Seasoned engineer and technical leader with 15+ years of experience delivering scalable, resilient, and high impact infrastructure and developer productivity platforms. Proven track record of driving cross-org initiatives, architecting distributed systems at scale (10K+ developers, 6K+ services), and reducing operational burden while improving reliability and velocity. Deep expertise in cloud infrastructure, networking protocols, continuous delivery, and policy enforcement systems. ## Work Experience ### Staff Software Engineer @ LinkedIn Jan 2020 – Present | Sunnyvale, California, United States ### Software Engineer 3 @ Ciena Jan 2018 – Jan 2020 | San Jose, California, United States ### Techincal Lead @ Aricent Jan 2015 – Jan 2018 | San Francisco Bay Area ### Senior Software Engineer @ Aricent Jan 2012 – Jan 2014 ### Software Engineer @ Aricent Jan 2010 – Jan 2012 ### Intern @ Aricent Jan 2010 – Jan 2010 | Gurgaon ### Programmer- Java/C @ Panjab Univeristy Jan 2007 – Jan 2010 | Chandigarh ## Education ### MCA in Computer Science Panjab University ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/aktayal --- Source: https://flows.cv/arunk JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/arunk/resume.json Last updated: 2026-04-12