Shishir Sathe

Director of Engineering | Go-To-Market & Finance DS at Linkedin

Bengaluru14.5k followers

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ex-Tata Consultancy Services

ex-Yahoo!

With over 15 years of extensive experience, Shishir has excelled in diverse roles spanning Data Science, Engineering, and Analytics within leading organizations such as LinkedIn and
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In his current role as Global lead, he oversees Data Science initiatives for Go-To-Market and Finance functions, encompassing Marketing, Sales, Pricing, Finance, Sales Intelligence and Insights Data and LBP Data Science. The GTMF Data Science team is a high-performing group of data engineers and scientists located at LinkedIn's HQ in Sunnyvale, New York and its Bengaluru office in In his previous roles at LinkedIn, he led a talented team of Data, UI and Full Stack Engineers based in Linkedin Bengaluru building Data Foundations, Products and Platforms for DS and ML org. He built the team from the ground up in India, starting with 4 engineers in Feb 2020 after moving back from HQ. Prior to that, he served as Acting Chief of Staff to Ya Xu, Head of Data Science at Linkedin where he helped Ya and her leads initiate and execute a number of strategic projects and helped establish and manage the operational rhythm of the 250+ Data Science org. He started his career at Linkedin HQ as a Sr Data Scientist in 2017 after ~5 years at Yahoo as a Data Engineer with the Search and Native Ads org.

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1. Dir of Eng, Data Science
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2. Senior Mgr, Software Eng
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3. Senior Mgr - Data Science…
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4. Mgr, Data Science Eng
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5. Staff Data Scientist
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6. Acting Chief of Staff, Dat…
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7. Senior Data Scientist
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1. Database Developer, Lead
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Job: LinkedIn — Senior Manager, Software Engineering / Head of GTM Data Science · 2024-11 – 2025-10 — Responsible for Data Science efforts for Go-To-Market areas across Marketing, Sales, Pricing, Sales Intelligence and Insights Data and LBP Data Science. Leading a talented team of 35+ Data engineers and scientists based out of HQ (Sunnyvale), NY and Bengaluru, India offices.
Job: LinkedIn — Acting Chief of Staff, Data Science · 2018-10 – 2019-06 — I served as Acting Chief of Staff to Ya Xu, Head of Data Science at Linkedin after she took over the role. I helped Ya and her leads initiate and execute a number of strategic projects and helped establish and manage the operational rhythm of the Data Science org which has 250+ extremely capable and talented Data Scientists. Key Highlights: - Led the tiger team that designed and rolled out "Career tracks" in Data Science org. Creating dedicated Career tracks within Data Science has not only helped us with targeted hiring, but more importantly, in a multi-displinary org as diverse as ours, it has fostered a sense of belonging and identity with clarity on career progression. - Operational…
Job: Tata Consultancy Services — Database Developer, Lead · 2004-07 – 2010-08 — Joined TCS as a trainee engineer and was leading a team of 4 Oracle PL/SQL developers at the time of leaving. Worked on a number of database applications development projects for clients in varied domains such as Nielsen Online, Royal Bank of Scotland and Maersk Shipping. Key Highlights: > Nielsen Online: Part of the team that developed Ad Relevance, an online advertisement research tool that crawled display ads appearing on popular portals, classifying them into campaigns which were tracked continuously for valuable information such as duration, geographies, advertisement budgeting etc. > Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS): Part of the team that built the backend for Corporate Actions Strategic…
Job: LinkedIn — Manager, Data Science Engineering · 2019-10 – 2022-10 — Leading a talented team of 10+ Data Engineers and Full Stack Engineers. Team worked cross-functionally across multiple LoBs such as Talent Solutions, Sales Solutions, Trust and Safety building scalable, high performant Data foundations for complex metric ecosystems along-with building internal and external Data products and platforms end-to-end. - Built the team from scratch after moving to India in Oct 2019. The team operates in the niche space of Data Science Engineering, - Was able to hire the initial team of 4 in a record amount of time (~3 months), with a use of innovative hiring strategies (pre-RPS tech screening, batch/ bulk interview days). - The high performing team has in a shor…
Job: Yahoo! — Tech Yahoo, User Data and Analytics · 2011-01 – 2015-08 — Data Engineer with the Search Data Analytics and Reporting team at Yahoo embedded with the Sales and Publisher teams based out of Yahoo Burbank, CA. Worked in a techno functional role to ideate and execute data driven sales initiatives that resulted in many successful multi-million dollar programs executed on Yahoo Bing Network Search alliance. Key Highlights: > Sales Programs & Initiatives: Worked with the Search sales strategy team on various multi-million dollar initiatives and programs around 1) Campaign Budget and Advertiser IO optimization, Bid optimization and adjustments, 2) Driving adoption for new features such as location extensions, Sitelinks, Product ads etc and 3) Conversion a…
Job: LinkedIn — Senior Data Scientist · 2015-08 – 2018-09 — During my tenure as a Data Scientist/ Data Engineer, I contributed to numerous Data Science and Engineering initiatives. Notable accomplishments: - Key member of DS team that worked from experiment+metric design to 100% ramp of a top initiative that refreshed the web app tech stack as well overhauled backend tracking - Lead DS on a first-of-its-kind experiment that attempted scientifically measure via AB testing the impact of degradation in site performance on business metrics - Oversaw LinkedIn-Microsoft integration analytics as the lead, managing metric definitions and providing weekly reports on multiple integration initiatives to the Microsoft Senior Leadership Team (SLT) and Linked…
Job: LinkedIn — Staff Data Scientist · 2018-09 – 2019-10
Job: LinkedIn — Senior Manager - Data Science and Engineering · 2022-10 – 2024-12 — Leading a talented team of 20+ Data Engineers and Full Stack Engineers that Shishir built from scratch at LinkedIn India. This is a specialized team of engineers within the Data (Data Science + AI) org that works on building scalable Data Platforms, Products and Foundations for Data Scientists and AI Engineers (1000+ org size). Responsible for providing technical leadership, building a strong & a vital organization, with a sustained focus on career development of team members. Team recognized for its high impact, flawless execution of critical company initiatives, working cross functionally with DS, AI, Product Eng and PM teams across multiple BUs and spread across time zones.
Job: Persistent Systems — Senior Team Lead - Yahoo Search Reporting · 2010-08 – 2010-12
Job: LinkedIn — Director of Engineering, Data Science / Head of GTM Data Science · 2025-10 – present — Responsible for Data Science efforts for Go-To-Market areas across Marketing, Sales, Pricing, Sales Intelligence and Insights Data and LBP Data Science. Leading a talented team of 35+ Data engineers and scientists based out of HQ (Sunnyvale), NY and Bengaluru, India offices.
School: Walchand College Of Engineering, Sangli — Bachelor’s Degree, Electronics Engineering
School: Shivaji University — Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.), Electrical and Electronics Engineering

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