Vidit Aggarwal
LinkedIn Staff Engineer | Break into Tech Giants | 12+ Years Experience
Studied at University of Southern California
Works at LinkedIn
Available tomorrow at 4:00 PM UTC
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Vidit's Coaching Offerings
Custom hourly · $75/hr
Get help with Technical Interview Prep, Behavioral Interview Prep, and .
Vidit also coaches for AI Productivity & Tooling and AI for Businesses. View all.
Vidit’s Software Engineering Qualifications
Experience level: Manager
I am a Staff Software Engineer at LinkedIn with more than twelve years of hands-on experience building and operating large-scale backend and full-stack systems, including LinkedIn’s latest generative AI products like AccountIQ and Seller Assistant. Inside LinkedIn I mentor engineers through our formal coaching program, guiding them from entry level to senior and staff roles while sharpening their system-design thinking, coding-interview skills, and promotion or compensation negotiation strategies. I also volunteer with Code Tenderloin and coach privately, helping career switchers break into engineering roles at leading global tech firms such as Google, Amazon, and other Fortune 500 innovators. Clients who work with me routinely achieve concrete results in six to eight weeks: landing new roles, securing promotions, and delivering complex features with improved reliability and performance. My coaching blends deep technical insight with clear, actionable feedback and a strong focus on mindset, so you leave each session equipped with both the hard skills and the confidence needed to excel in today’s software-engineering landscape.
Vidit can help with:
Technical Interview Prep
Behavioral Interview Prep
Skill Building
Architecture
Promotion Strategy
Networking Strategy
LinkedIn Review
Resume Review
Vidit also coaches for AI Productivity & Tooling and AI for Businesses. View all.
About Vidit
I'm a Staff Software Engineer at LinkedIn with 12+ years in the industry, currently building production AI agents and generative AI products. I've shipped systems like AccountIQ (RAG-powered financial analysis) and an AI assistant serving 3,000+ sellers, and I hold multiple patents in AI/ML. I coach in three areas. For software engineers: I help with system design, interview prep, and navigating the path to senior and staff levels. For builders and technical professionals: I teach hands-on AI tooling, from Claude Code and MCP servers to building your first AI agent. For business owners and leaders: I help you cut through the AI hype, find the use cases that will actually impact your bottom line, and get something live without wasting months or money. I've mentored engineers through internal programs at LinkedIn and externally through platforms and nonprofits like Code Tenderloin. I keep things practical. No fluff, no theory without application.
Why do I coach?
I've been fortunate to work on some of the most interesting AI problems in tech, and I've had mentors along the way who made a real difference. Coaching is how I pay that forward. I started informally, helping engineers at LinkedIn with system design and promo prep. Then through Code Tenderloin, working with people breaking into tech for the first time. What I discovered is that I genuinely enjoy the moment when something clicks for someone. Now I want to do that at scale.
Work Experience
Staff Software Engineer
March 2022 - Present
Led development of AccountIQ, leveraging GenAI techniques like RAG and langchain to extract and analyze insights from SEC filings and financial disclosures for sales professionals Reduced account research time for sellers through intelligent document processing that automatically highlights business trends, growth opportunities, and risk factors within target accounts Developed an AI-powered conversational assistant that provides sales teams with instant, contextual answers about accounts and leads through a natural language interface
Senior Software Engineer
April 2018 - March 2022
Launched a brand new V1 tool to serve the sales reps around the world - Linkedin Sales Insights(LSI) Developed the metrics platform to support all the metrics shown in LSI. Created the bulk import and entity matching processor for a nearline system with customized partitioning strategy(samza/kafka). Working on OLAP(Pinot), document(espresso), and relational databases for Insights Worked on admin suggestion email platform for all company pages. Worked on member feedback platform for all company pages. Designed a scalable bing web search samza query processor for company pages and enriching company data.
Senior Software Engineer
eBay
July 2017 - April 2018
Designed and implemented the Content management solution for blogs using ML/NLP for topic identification and also tagging it with some intelligence. Developed Ebay Coin using ethereum blockchain and deployed it on a private blockchain. Developed the eBay browse customization platform to support millions of pages for the seo effort.
SDE 2
eBay
June 2015 - July 2017
Worked on Live Sold Deals project using kafka, storm and SSE service. Developed and designed a microservice based Experience Service to support deals and events platform across all the countries. Restructured the API to a newer model with all the coding and design guidelines. Worked on making the API device independent and support web, mweb and apps.
Software Engineer Intern
Tala
January 2015 - April 2015
Worked as a Data Science Intern and developed the parser and used that to build features. Optimized the existing model by feature selection, hyperparameter optimization and ensemling of multiple algorithms.
Web Developer
University of Southern California
January 2014 - December 2014
Worked on enhancements and overhaul of a PV Server website.
Software Engineering Intern
eBay
June 2014 - August 2014
Designed a scalable recommendation system which work for multiple categories. Worked on Hadoop system and used Hive to fetch data with MapReduce Implemented Machine Learning algorithms for designing a recommendation engine.
Vidit was also given offers to work at
Amazon
Meta (Facebook)
Rippling
Roblox
Education
University of Southern California
Master of Science (MS), Computer Science
Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University
B.Tech, IT