Mahesh Vishwanath

Posts by Mahesh Vishwanath

  • Render Models at LinkedIn

    November 22, 2022

    Co-Authors: Mahesh Vishwanath, Eric Babyak, Sonali Bhadra, Umair Saeed Introduction We use render models for passing data to our client applications to describe the content (text, images, buttons etc.) and the layout to display on the screen. This means most of such logic is moved out of the clients and centralized on the server. This enables us to deliver new...

  • Leveraging configurable components to scale LinkedIn's Profile experience

    April 5, 2022

    Background and motivation The Profile lies at the center of LinkedIn’s ecosystem and is the primary tool members use to showcase their professional identity. To meet the growing representational needs of our members, we had to acknowledge some of the challenges that come with building at scale: Customizations based on member intents can be complex, resulting in...