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On a recent visit to LinkedIn’s Mountain View headquarters, I sat down with three of the company’s engineers to talk through different aspects of its business. For the first article in this behind the scenes series, we’ll hear from VP of Engineering Alex Vauthey, who heads up monetization engineering and data infrastructure at LinkedIn, about the company’s efforts to contribute to the open source community. This transcript has been edited for clarity and length. TNW: What is LinkedIn’s approach to open source software? Vauthey: LinkedIn really embraces open-sourcing. I can think of three main reasons for that: first one is it’s very much in…

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