Vivek Katarya

Staff Software Engineer with 20 years of experience designing and delivering large-scale, high-performance distributed and agentic systems. Over 8+ years at LinkedIn, led foundational infrastructure and application initiatives — from semantic people search to GenAI-powered multi-agent orchestration — serving millions of professionals worldwide. Engineering philosophy: build systems that evolve gracefully with technology, optimize for tradeoffs, and keeps developer productivity at center.