Editor's Note: LinkedIn Engineering is dedicated to solving complex problems at scale to create economic opportunity for every member of the global workforce. This challenge provides our engineers with the opportunity to build their technical skills as they make this mission a reality. In this series, we’ll talk about the career development of the people that...

LinkedIn has a longstanding history with and commitment to the open source community. Many of our engineers across the company contribute to LinkedIn-owned projects, as well as projects shared by other technologists. If you’re interested in why we open source, here’s a post from our our Chief Data Officer, Igor Perisic, that helps explain our philosophy. At the...