Shekhar Valluri
Principal Staff Software Engineer at LinkedIn
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolShekhar Valluri is a Principal Staff Software Engineer at LinkedIn in San Francisco with 11 years of experience and a steady progression through senior engineering roles since 2014. He architects and ships large-scale search and indexing systems—most notably building a horizontally scalable code-indexing pipeline that extracted metadata from over 4 million files, increasing indexed code fourfold and cutting indexing time by 10x. He brings uncommon breadth, having begun his career in iOS and Core Data development before transitioning to backend and distributed systems, which gives him a practical full-stack perspective when designing production infrastructure. Known for driving technical strategy and high-impact delivery, he pairs hands-on engineering with mentorship and cross-team collaboration.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Science (Physics, Chemistry, Maths, Computers), Science (Physics, Chemistry, Maths, Computers) at Don Bosco School, Alaknanda, New DelhiBachelor of Technology, Computer Science & Engineering, Bachelor of Technology, Computer Science & Engineering at Vellore Institute of Technology
English, Hindi, Telugu
Github Skills (5)
bluepill10
parallel8
testing7
ios7
xcode6
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
princeshekhar/innersource
Nov 2019 - Nov 2019
Contributions:6 PRs, 6 pushes, 12 branches in 1 day
vnandan/codeforgoodserver
Jul 2014 - Jul 2014
Contributions:41 commits in 1 day
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