Nick Berry Resume

Summary

Engineering leader with 25+ years of experience scaling global infrastructure with a smile. Focused on the intersection of infrastructure and reliability, full-stack from edge to database. Experienced in leading multi-year efforts spanning multiple organizations and managing high-performance teams. Passionate about driving automation, system standardization, technical and organizational efficiency to help complex systems grow to massive scale.

Experience

Principal Staff Engineer @ LinkedIn, Site Engineering | Jun 2017 - Jul 2025

Led multi-year, fleet-wide efforts including long term multi-region data center strategy, scaling network capability and resiliency, improving efficiency and resource accountability, OS modernization, migration readiness, and system standardization.
Shifted fleet operations from reactive to scheduled upgrades with predictable timelines and zero downtime via automation.
Developed utilization insights that led to significant reductions in capacity forecasting and maximizing use of existing capacity through tuning, optimization, and process.
Identified and resolved bottlenecks across organizations, aligning goals for dozens of teams and securing executive buy-in for major initiatives.

Director @ LinkedIn, Site Reliability | Aug 2011 - Jun 2017

As a founding SRE manager, instrumental in scaling out the embedded SRE model, partnering with teams across all tiers: frontend, mid-tier, and backend.
Grew to become Infrastructure SRE (40+ employees) spanning offices in SF Bay Area, NYC, and India. Responsible for hiring and developing technical leads and senior management.
Owned Observability platforms used across Engineering: metrics, visualization, alerting, escalation; focused on scale (10M -> 2B+ metrics/minute), self-service, and guardrails to minimize human error.
Responsible for building, deploying, and scaling LinkedIn's edge infrastructure strategy.
Authored LinkedIn's first Python-native Kafka producer library, enabling non-Java solutions to integrate with the telemetry pipeline.

Principal Service Engineer @ Yahoo! | Oct 2007 - Aug 2011

Lead SE for Yahoo! Homepages and personalization platforms (OCP, NPN, COKE) involving global deployment (10 regions) with replication, traffic distribution, and automated failover.
Key monitoring and metrics evangelist responsible for defining standards and implementation across the organization.

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Nick Berry

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Experience

Principal Staff Engineer @ LinkedIn, Site Engineering | Jun 2017 - Jul 2025

Director @ LinkedIn, Site Reliability | Aug 2011 - Jun 2017

Principal Service Engineer @ Yahoo! | Oct 2007 - Aug 2011

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