Niranjan Ekbote

Director Of Engineering at LinkedIn

Niranjan Ekbote currently serves as the Director of Engineering at LinkedIn, starting in August 2025, where responsibilities include leading a team focused on innovating assets, formats, and placements for LinkedIn ads. Previously, Niranjan spent over 17 years at Google, holding roles such as Director of Engineering for Campaign Manager 360 and Enterprise Ad Server, where strategic leadership of a cross-functional team was essential for business growth, and Senior Staff Software Engineer for Display & Video 360, focusing on ad serving and creative format development. Prior experience includes serving as Technical Architect at DoubleClick, launching a media planning solution with a team of engineers. Niranjan holds a Master’s degree in Computer Science from the University of Pennsylvania and is furthering expertise in applied data science and machine learning through a program at MIT Professional Education.

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Founded in 2003, LinkedIn connects the world's professionals to make them more productive and successful. With more than 756 million members worldwide, including executives from every Fortune 500 company, LinkedIn is the world's largest professional network. The company has a diversified business model with revenue coming from Talent Solutions, Marketing Solutions, Sales Solutions and Premium Subscriptions products. Headquartered in Silicon Valley, LinkedIn has offices across the globe.