Mountain View, California
Led a 10-engineer team building the microservices-based localization infrastructure that powered LinkedIn's 800M+ user experience across 15+ global markets.
▸ Sustained 99.8% uptime on all platform services while scaling to support continuous global product launches.
▸ Cut QA cycle time 40% and defect escape rate 35% by re-architecting the translation QA pipeline with automated validation layers and ML-assisted quality scoring.
▸ Delivered 15+ market expansions on schedule by redesigning content ingestion APIs and distributed processing pipelines — reducing per-locale launch overhead ~60%.
▸ Managed $3M annual budget with zero overruns across 6 years; reallocated 20% of vendor spend to internal tooling that eliminated two external dependencies.
▸ Grew 3 ICs to Staff/Senior through structured roadmap ownership and cross-functional sponsorship.