Malai Lakshmanan is Head of Engineering at LinkedIn India. With 12 years of experience at LinkedIn across various technology functions. Malai now leads engineering at LinkedIn’s second largest R&D centre outside of the United States. LinkedIn Engineering India serves over a billion members and customers across 200 territories worldwide. Prior to LinkedIn, Malai worked in Technology Advisory at KPMG for nearly a decade after starting out as an engineer at Infosys. In 2020, Malai established Siruthuli, a non-profit focused on the socio-economic empowerment of underprivileged sections of society