# Sangam Kumar

> Staff Software Engineer @ LinkedIn | Carnegie Mellon University

Location: San Francisco Bay Area, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/sangam

Experienced Software Engineer with a demonstrated history of working in the internet industry and a broad range of technical skills and expertise in building scalable systems and backend development.

## Work Experience
### Staff Software Engineer @ LinkedIn
Jan 2021 – Present | Sunnyvale, CA
- LinkedIn Business Platform: Designed and led the backend architecture for a rule-based pricing engine powering multi-line quoting/ordering and influencing $2B+ revenue, delivering $81M+ impact via scalable, auditable pricing infrastructure.

- Release Validation Platform: Led backend development of LinkedIn’s rule-based Release Validation Platform, enabling dynamic canary and experimentation validations across 14K+ services and improving rollout reliability to 97% for 1B+ member traffic.

Focus areas: • Product/Platform Backend • Deployment Infrastructure • Rule-Based Systems • Business Logic Automation • Scalable APIs • Distributed Systems • Temporal Workflows • Canary Validation • Data Validation • Observability • Signal Accuracy • Revenue Infrastructure  • Monetization & Growth • Finance Engineering  • Subscription Lifecycle

### Software Engineer - Backend @ Houzz
Jan 2019 – Jan 2021 | Palo Alto
Member of Pro Revenue Team  that manages Sales and Self Serve Tool for Houzz Pro Subscriptions. Worked on various projects such as Self Serve, Entitlement Service, Free Trial, etc

### Engineering Intern @ LinkedIn
Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | San Francisco Bay Area
Member of Automated Sourcing Team in LinkedIn Talent Solutions

### Software Engineer @ Paytm
Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 | Bengaluru Area, India
Member of PayTM Travel Team - Contributed in various projects in Trains, Bus & Flight Ticket Bookings vertical.

### Software Developer @ Zilingo
Jan 2016 – Jan 2017 | Bengaluru Area, India
Member of User side Web Team - Worked on the backend of an internal tool that helps create dynamic pages on the website using child layouts such as Banners, Video, Composite Layouts, n-Column Grids that can be directly selected through an admin interface by designers to design the home page according to business needs or offers.

### Member of Technical Staff @ MetricStream
Jan 2014 – Jan 2016 | Bengaluru Area, India
Created tool for a GRC application that validates data that carries changes in organisational hierarchy through excel files uploaded by the users and updates the changes in Oracle Database accordingly.
Designed and developed backend for a hierarchy of organisations, departments, risks.
Involved with MetricStream GRC platform team to develop new generic components in platform libraries that were being demanded by multiple clients in their GRC Apps.


## Education
### Master's degree
Carnegie Mellon University

### Bachelor of Technology in Computer Science & Engineering
VIT University


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/sangam-kumar-90791072

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Source: https://flows.cv/sangam
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Last updated: 2026-04-12