# Sihua L. > Staff Software Engineer at LinkedIn Location: San Francisco Bay Area, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/sihua I have 10 years of industry experience leading cross-functional teams and delivering high-impact, complex projects. My background includes distributed systems, big data, threat intelligence, and cloud services, with a proven track record of driving technical strategy and developing scalable, business-critical software solutions. With experience in both startups and large companies, I’m comfortable with high-pressure, fast-paced environments as well as structured organizations that require effective cross-team collaboration and established processes. ## Work Experience ### Staff Software Engineer @ LinkedIn Jan 2025 – Present ### Software Engineering Manager @ LinkedIn Jan 2022 – Present | Sunnyvale, California, United States Lead the team to drive cross-functional initiatives for job growth and monetization within LinkedIn's talent marketplace. • Scale job ingestion pipelines and launch AI-powered source acquisition & onboarding platform, supporting millions of jobs and driving continuous WAU (weekly active user) growth. • Form job monetization strategy and architect the job visibility control system to incentivize willingness to pay; launch new product to proactively engage hirers for job promotion, upsell, and acquisition - generating $30M+ revenue in FY25. • Foster AI skills and lead several venture projects, including job quality improvement via skills reranking model, company ranking model to improve seeker engagement, and agentic sourcing to help hirers source candidates. ### Staff Software Engineer @ LinkedIn Jan 2021 – Jan 2022 | Sunnyvale, California, United States ### Recruiter @ GSBOA Test Jan 2020 – Present ### Team Lead, Sr. Software Engineer @ Shape Security, part of F5 Jan 2020 – Jan 2021 | Santa Clara, CA Architecture, develop and maintain Shape Alert and Response System (ARS). The ARS platform detects attacks and health issues by ingesting telemetry logs, aggregates and correlates data with threat intelligence, and provides a web portal for SOC analysts to quickly respond to incidents. Responsibilities include: • Lead a team of 5 software engineers to build ARS product from scratch, achieved MVP release in 6 months, and continuously enhanced the product with new features. • Discover requirements, determine project scope, plan Sprints, and coordinate releases. • Lead multiple initiatives to improve intelligence, usability, and scalability of the system. • Build distributed detection system feeding billions of data every day while maintaining tight SLAs (service-level agreement) for customers. ### Staff Software Engineer @ Shape Security, part of F5 Jan 2019 – Jan 2020 | Santa Clara, CA One of the core contributors to an initial release of a security product in 6 months. The new product monitors customer transactions collected by Shape appliances, generates alerts on malicious activities, and provides a web portal for analysts to manage and analyze alerts. ### Senior Software Engineer @ Shape Security, part of F5 Jan 2018 – Jan 2019 | Mountain View, CA Backend engineer in Data Service team which builds cloud-based management system for Shape appliances. Responsibilities included: • Designed and developed web portal back-end for Shape customers web portal. • Built real-time data pipelines using data processing, cluster computing, storage and query technologies. • Solved unique and challenging problems in distributed system, which deals with data streaming, data visualization, policy/firmware management, and fault tolerance. ### Software Engineer @ Shape Security, part of F5 Jan 2016 – Jan 2018 | Mountain View, CA ### Software Developer II @ Oracle Jan 2016 – Jan 2016 | San Francisco Bay Area Software engineer in Solaris operating system (Solaris Core Technology). Designed and developed software programs to ensure high quality of operating system. Diagnosed and debugged a wide range of OS kernel programs. ### Design Engineer Intern @ Ambarella Inc Jan 2015 – Jan 2015 | Santa Clara, CA, USA Developed programs for image processing and video compression modules. Performed synthesis and simulation. ## Education ### Master’s Degree in Electrical and Electronics Engineering Stanford University ### Bachelor’s Degree in Electrical and Electronics Engineering Huazhong University of Science and Technology ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/sihua-l-1085a3a4 --- Source: https://flows.cv/sihua JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/sihua/resume.json Last updated: 2026-04-12