Ritwik Sharma — Software Engineer @ LinkedIn

Ritwik Sharma

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Software Engineer @ LinkedIn.


I'm a software engineer at LinkedIn with 7+ years building and owning large-scale distributed systems and backend platforms end-to-end.

My flagship work is gRPCurli — LinkedIn's gRPC developer CLI ("curl for gRPC"), which I created and led from inception to production. Built on the open-source gRPCurl tool, it's distributed across 500k+ hosts and was integral to the company-wide migration from rest.li to gRPC. As its sole maintainer, I support teams across the org that rely on it daily — including backend, AI/ML-serving, and data teams.

I also led the design to bring gRPC service discovery and exploration into Sceptre, LinkedIn's service-exploration portal (4,000+ monthly users), which now surfaces 680+ gRPC services and their RPCs org-wide — making it far easier for engineers to find, understand, and try services when building products.

On the platform side, I've authored shared libraries and driven cross-team migrations — including a vendor-neutral incident-data abstraction that turns recurring tooling migrations into a one-line config change. I'm also tech lead for Ravens, our incident-notification platform (email, call, SMS, Slack), where I own reliability and shipped GenAI-powered incident summaries to speed up response.

Across my career I've focused on backend engineering — distributed systems, service frameworks (gRPC / rest.li), APIs, scaling, and observability — and increasingly on applying GenAI and LLMs to real engineering problems. I love tackling complex, ambiguous challenges and building robust, scalable systems that others can build on.

Outside of engineering, I'm an active investor and trader, with a keen interest in global markets and commodities.

Feel free to reach out — I'm always happy to talk distributed systems, developer platforms, AI infrastructure, or markets.

Projects

Work at LinkedIn

gRPCurli

A LinkedIn-specific CLI wrapper around gRPCurl that I built end-to-end to make gRPC services easier to call and debug. Internal

Sceptre

A service-discovery tool for exploring and experimenting with gRPC resources, APIs, and entity relationships. Internal

Ravens

A notification-subscriptions platform spanning email, calls, messages, and Slack for incident communication. Internal

Open Source & Personal

Virtual Assistant

Open-source project

Celestial Body Detection

Open-source project

Personal Digital Assistant

Android

Satellite Log Data Analyses

Internship project

Contact

"Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you find it."

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