The Columbia Engineering AI Entrepreneurship Series is a bi-weekly speaker series that brings students and faculty at Columbia together with founders, VCs, technologists, and business leaders to learn about the process of transitioning lessons from research and the classroom into products and value.
October 7, 2025
Xiaofeng WangLinkedIn Senior Eng Manager, Agents Platform
Abstract
Join Xiaofeng Wang, Sr. Engineering Manager at LinkedIn’s Agents Platform, as he takes you behind the scenes of the platform powering all of LinkedIn’s member-facing agentic applications at scale.
This talk will trace the GenAI product revolution, from simple prompt‑in‑string use cases to the latest LinkedIn Hiring Assistant. It will show how the Agent Platform evolved to enable these experiences. Xiaofeng will share the technical foundations, organizational challenges, hiring strategies, and hard‑won lessons that shaped LinkedIn’s journey, highlighting how the team bridged open‑source innovation with enterprise‑grade infrastructure, built seamless developer experiences, and enforced trust and responsible AI from day one.
Whether you’re a researcher, engineer, product leader, or entrepreneur, this talk offers a front-row look at LinkedIn’s agentic journey, the latest trends in agent development, and what it takes to transform prototypes into impactful, production-grade agents at enterprise scale.
This event is organized by Columbia's Data, Agents, and Processes Lab (DAPLab). For more information about the series, see https://daplab.cs.columbia.edu/entrepreneurship.
