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Neil Pinto

Neil Pinto

VP Infrastructure Engineering
SAN RAMON,CA

Summary

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.

Overview

35
35
years of professional experience
38
38
years of post-secondary education

Work History

VP, Infrastructure Engineering

LinkedIn
02.2015 - Current
  • Oversee production infrastructure initiatives, ensuring platform reliability and efficiency
  • Manage cross-functional engineering teams spanning infrastructure budgets, supply chain, data center services, network engineering, and system and storage engineering
  • Lead forecasting, procurement, and deployment of AI compute, including NVIDIA GPU installations
  • Manage an annual infrastructure budget of $1.5 billion for LinkedIn

Sr Director Data Operations

LinkedIn
02.2010 - 01.2015

Sr. Director, Database Operations

Yahoo Inc.
08.2004 - 02.2010
  • Managed day-to-day operations of revenue-generating database applications and data warehousing systems

Sr. Database Consultant

Agilent Technologies
03.2002 - 07.2004

Consulted as a database performance architect and was responsible for performance tuning, capacity planning and support for Oracle manufacturing/supply chain applications. During this engagement was part of a design and deployment team that designed a scalable disaster recovery and reporting solution.

Sr. Technical Architect

DASAN Zhone Solutions
03.2000 - 03.2002

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.


Sr. Oracle Database Consultant

Lucent Technologies Inc
06.1998 - 07.2000

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

Sr. Oracle Database Consultant

PeopleSoft
07.1997 - 10.1998

Consulted at PeopleSoft with the Database Servers & Services group, that was responsible for software releases and functional certification of all PeopleSoft applications (i.e. HRMS, Federal HRMS, ERP, etc.). As a member of this team, I was responsible for certifying the installation procedures on all components of the application on different RDBMS i.e. Oracle, Informix, and Sybase.

Sr. Oracle DBA

Hewlett-Packard
04.1995 - 06.1997

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

Oracle DBA

Mervyns Dept
01.1991 - 03.1995

Responsible for providing day-to-day operational support to the development teams and 24 x 7 database support for all production database using Oracle, Teradata, Sybase and DB2

Sr. Developer

Citicorp Overseas Software Inc
11.1989 - 12.1990

As a C developer was part of a development team developing automated banking software that is being used by many banks in South East Asia.

Education

Bachelor of Engineering - Computer Science

University of Mumbai
07.1987 - 07.2025

Skills

  • Production Infrastructure Management

  • Data Center Operations & Engineering

  • Network & Systems Engineering

  • Infrastructure Budgeting & Cost Optimization

  • Supply Chain & Vendor Management

  • Scalability & Security Engineering

  • AI Compute Forecasting & Deployment

Timeline

VP, Infrastructure Engineering

LinkedIn
02.2015 - Current

Sr Director Data Operations

LinkedIn
02.2010 - 01.2015

Sr. Director, Database Operations

Yahoo Inc.
08.2004 - 02.2010

Sr. Database Consultant

Agilent Technologies
03.2002 - 07.2004

Sr. Technical Architect

DASAN Zhone Solutions
03.2000 - 03.2002

Sr. Oracle Database Consultant

Lucent Technologies Inc
06.1998 - 07.2000

Sr. Oracle Database Consultant

PeopleSoft
07.1997 - 10.1998

Sr. Oracle DBA

Hewlett-Packard
04.1995 - 06.1997

Oracle DBA

Mervyns Dept
01.1991 - 03.1995

Sr. Developer

Citicorp Overseas Software Inc
11.1989 - 12.1990

Bachelor of Engineering - Computer Science

University of Mumbai
07.1987 - 07.2025
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