My name is Neil Pinto, and I am the Vice President of Infrastructure Engineering at LinkedIn. I oversee the infrastructure that supports the world’s largest professional network, managing everything from forecasting, managing the end-to-end infrastructure capacity needs for the company.
My responsibilities include developing data center strategies, negotiating leases, and managing supply chain logistics. I am responsible for the supply chain team that's responsible for all logistics and procurement of infrastructure needed to support the business, the data center engineering, that is responsible for deploying and operating data center capacity. The Infrastructure Qualification and Capacity Engineering team, the networking engineering that is responsible for connectivity needed to support the billion+ members across the globe. And finally the systems and storage engineering teams that are responsible for managing a fleet of million+ serves and provisioning petabytes of storage.
A major aspect of my role is AI infrastructure, where I forecast, procure, and deploy advanced AI computing systems, including the latest NVIDIA GPUs. I also manage a $1.5 billion infrastructure budget, optimizing costs and maintaining scalability and security.
With over 34 years of experience in technology, including roles at LinkedIn and Yahoo! where I scaled social and consumer internet infrastructure systems to support billions of users, I am passionate about helping companies build robust infrastructure to support their growth.
My goal is to empower organizations with effective infrastructure strategies and technology investments that drive innovation and long-term success in an increasingly digital world.
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Ran day-to-day operations for Zhone’s core Oracle manufacturing applications. This included design and development of a data analytics solution for reporting on booking, shipping, and backlog of inventory.Ran day-to-day operations for Zhone’s core Oracle manufacturing applications. This included design and development of a data analytics solution for reporting on booking, shipping, and backlog of inventory.
Consulted as a lead Oracle database architect during the implementation of Oracle manufacturing application. My responsibilities included capacity-planning, sizing, performance tuning of the application and managing a team of DBA’s who were responsible for providing day-to-day operational support of ongoing deployments
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Responsible for providing day-to-day operational support to the development teams and 24 x 7 database support for HP’s largest data warehouse, which was used worldwide by approx. 2500 users. I also managed the design and migration of all databases from Ingres to Oracle
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