Nishant is an Engineering Manager at LinkedIn, where he leads the infrastructure for People You May Know (PYMK) and People Follows (PF)—two foundational recommendation systems responsible for building a multi-billion dollar revenue stream annually and creating an engaging and meaningful ecosystem at scale. Over the past several years, he has been instrumental in scaling the underlying relevance infrastructure by migrating multiple pipelines from offline and nearline to online, inventing powerful candidate sourcing mechanisms, and reimagining the retrieval landscape to drive sustained business impact and unlock new ways of solving cold-start problems.

At LinkedIn, Nishant also built the control plane for all data systems from the ground up, enabling seamless orchestration, quota automation, and real-time capacity management across LinkedIn’s critical services. He led the development of the Multi-Tenancy-As-A-Service (MAAS) framework, which now underpins key infrastructure shared across teams. His recent efforts focus on integrating large language models (LLMs) into production pipelines, enhancing entity-based retrieval, and optimizing model serving for low-latency, high-throughput use cases.

Before LinkedIn, Nishant was at Amazon Web Services, where he worked on Elastic Block Storage (EBS) and authored several patents in distributed storage systems. He began his career at Cisco, contributing to high-performance video backend systems. Nishant holds a Master’s degree in Computer Science from the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, and has published seven patents across infrastructure, storage, and machine learning platforms.