Byron Ellis

Principal Staff Software Engineer, Big Data Pipelines & Platform Infrastructure
at LinkedIn

Byron Ellis serves as the Principal Staff Software Engineer for Big Data Pipelines and Platform Infrastructure at LinkedIn since September 2025. Previously, Byron held various senior engineering roles at Google from June 2022 to September 2025, including work on BigQuery Storage and serving as the Technical Lead for the BigQuery Engine for Apache Flink. Prior to Google, Byron was a Senior Engineering Manager at YouTube managing the Trust and Safety Data Engineering Team and content moderation systems. Byron's career also includes serving as Chief Technology Officer at Spongecell, Chief Data Scientist at LivePerson, and CTO at AdBrite, where significant contributions were made to analytics, data visualization, and fraud detection systems. Byron's educational background encompasses a PhD and AM in Statistics from Harvard University, and a BS in Cybernetics from UCLA.

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