# Sahil Sachdeva > Sr Software Engineer @ LinkedIn | USC CS Grad | Infra, Performance, Autoscaling | Exploring ML/LLM Ops | Product Engineering & Strategy Enthusiast Location: San Jose, California, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/sahilsachdeva I am a computer science USC grad currently working on Linkedin's core serving infrastructure. At Linkedin, I have worked with teams that work towards - ** Performance - scaling up the backend services, ensuring a delightful member experience by improving site speed, page load times, and content delivery. ** Resource Intelligence - Infrastructure cost tracking & reporting, predictive and reactive autoscaling solutions, rightsizing the containers to cut waste without cutting power Striving to become someone who understands the business impact first and then leverages the tech power to solve a real problem. ** Looking for opportunities for ** Product development, ML infrastructure, and figuring out how to bring intelligent systems to life - especially in the LLM/ML Ops space. I’m also curious about how tech intersects with economics, product, healthcare, and strategy. Always in learning mode. Always looking for what’s next. Reach out to me to discuss opportunities, seek mentorship & advice, or brainstorm new product ideas. ## Work Experience ### Sr Software Engineer @ LinkedIn Jan 2022 – Present | Sunnyvale, CA # Compute Infrastructure - Efficiency, Autoscaling and Offline Workload scheduling ## What am I working on currently? Building platform to run offline batch jobs on K8s, smarter cluster selection strategies, faster scheduling and migration of customer to the consolidates platform. Led the development of an automated experimentation framework to optimize compute and memory utilization across thousands of production workloads, improving workload stacking and resource utilization and driving sustained efficiency improvements at scale. Contributed to build and run a predictive autoscaling pipeline for stateless Kubernetes fleets, combining traffic validation with resource modeling to make intelligent scaling decisions. Drove cost-tracking initiatives by integrating resource usage with hardware forecasting, enabling chargeback-style analysis and fostering a resource-aware engineering culture in a non-cloud environment. Championed efficiency engineering best practices, helping service owners reclaim unused resources and unlock meaningful, measurable cost savings. ### Software Engineer @ LinkedIn Jan 2019 – Jan 2022 | Sunnyvale, California # Performance Engineering at Linkedin Developed and maintained client-side instrumentation libraries for real-time user monitoring (RUM), tracking page and app load times on web and mobile. Enhanced member experience through personalization, performance improvements, and detailed user experience tracking. Conducted large-scale data analysis to generate actionable insights by correlating key metrics like QPS, session growth, and weekly active users (WAU) with real usage data, enabling partner teams to make informed decisions on data center usage, licensing, and financial planning. Built low-latency data pipelines powering ML models that predict network quality in real time. ### Software Engineer Intern @ Journal Technologies Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | Greater Los Angeles Area Journal Technologies supplies case management software to courts, prosecutors, public defenders, probation and other justice agencies. Worked on eCourt's technology stack ( Struts, Bootstrap, React ) & completed more than 30 tickets. Familiarized with dev tools like Git, Confluence, JIRA, Bamboo, Docker. Worked on the 'Timeslot View' for judges to categorize case events & enhance the usability of case summary dashboard. Understood the HazelCast's cluster level cache implementation & performed load testing on the clusters using jMeter to find upper cap. Secured the raw entries and API keys , kept on servers in DMZ zone by integrating HashiCorp's Vault & two-factor authorization. Upgraded the case filing portal (PHP/ Drupal) to higher versions & integrated existing payment gateway. Wrote Groovy scripts to embed business rules for fee calculations. ### Senior R&D Engineer @ Tejas Networks Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 | Gurgaon, Haryana, India ### R&D Engineer @ Tejas Networks Jan 2015 – Jan 2017 | Gurgaon, India ### Software Developer @ Newgen Software Inc Jan 2013 – Jan 2015 | Noida Area, India ### Research Intern @ Space Applications Centre, ISRO Jan 2012 – Jan 2012 | Ahemdabad ## Education ### Masters of Science in Computer Science University of Southern California Jan 2017 – Jan 2019 ### B.Tech in Computer Science & Engineering Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University Jan 2009 – Jan 2013 ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/iamsiter --- Source: https://flows.cv/sahilsachdeva JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/sahilsachdeva/resume.json Last updated: 2026-03-22