Hariharan Gopalakrishnan is a Staff Software Engineer at LinkedIn since June 2017, with prior experience as a Research Assistant at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and Epic Systems, focusing on embedded databases and financial data visualization, respectively. A former Software Engineering Intern at LinkedIn, Gopalakrishnan contributed to Android libraries for communication technologies. Earlier experience as a Software Engineer 2 at PayPal included leadership as a scrum master and technological migrations. Gopalakrishnan holds a Master's Degree in Computer Science from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and a Bachelor of Engineering in Computer Science from the College of Engineering Guindy, Chennai.