Chandramouli Gopalakrishnan, Ph.D

CEO

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India21 yrs 8 mos experience

Highly Stable

Key Highlights

10 years in EDA with cross-geographic team building.
Led successful startup acquisition during the pandemic.
Expert in product leadership for SaaS and software solutions.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS and Software Product Leader with extensive experience in engineering and team management.

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Skills

Core Skills

Product LeadershipCross-functional Team LeadershipProduct StrategyBusiness Development

Other Skills

ASICAgile MethodologiesAlgorithmsBuilding Strong TeamsCC++C/C++Computer ArchitectureCross-Functional Team BuildingCross-geographic managementCustomer obsessionDebuggingDistributed SystemsEDAEmbedded Systems

About

Engineering Foundations: Spent 10 years in the EDA field, honing my craft in building cross-geographic engineering teams from scratch. Eng management roles at Cadence, Synopsys. Startup Leadership: Led product and technology in travel-related startups for 6 years. Founded and led Travenues (a subsidiary of ixigo), where my team built a complete Aviation SaaS Ecommerce System. Managed sales, marketing, and distribution, pitching to over a dozen airlines across SE Asia. The startup was successfully acquired during the pandemic. Product leadership roles at Goibibo, Stayzilla. Microsoft Journey: At Microsoft for the past 4 years, I’ve worked on 0-to-1 products like Microsoft Places and contributed to Outlook and Substrate, helping drive customer facing and platform driven products.

Experience

Yupp

Product

Nov 2024 – Present · 1 yr 4 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · On-site

Microsoft

Principal PM Manager

Sep 2020 – Oct 2024 · 4 yrs 1 mo · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Product Lead for the IDC teams of Substrate Data Plane and Substrate Intelligence platform
0-1 Product Lead for Microsoft Places Admin Scenarios (Concept PPT deck to Private Preview)
Product Lead for Outlook Groups, Outlook Sec & Compliance, and Calendaring Platform

Cross-functional Team LeadershipProduct StrategyCustomer obsessionAgile MethodologiesProduct LeadershipStakeholder Management+2

Spicejet limited

Consultant

Jun 2020 – Aug 2020 · 2 mos

Transition of the Technology and Team into SpiceJet after the acqui-hire of Travenues into SpiceJet.

Travenues

Chief Digital Officer

Jan 2019 – Jun 2020 · 1 yr 5 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

[acq-hired into SpiceJet]
0-to-1 experience of building a B2B SaaS platform business for Aviation from scratch
Oversaw the Tech, Product, and Design of the DaVinci Ecommerce platform for Airlines
Managed Key Account – SpiceJet
Business Development - Pitched with > 10 global airlines
CAPA Innovation award, WiT Startup pitch award conducted by Amadeus

Product StrategyBusiness DevelopmentStrategic CommunicationsCross-Functional Team BuildingStrategic NegotiationsCustomer obsession+3

Ixigo

Vice President (Special Projects)

Mar 2018 – Jan 2019 · 10 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

Travenues was created as an independent fully owned subsidiary of ixigo to create B2B SaaS platforms for the aviation industry.

Cross-Functional Team Building

Shotang india

Vice President / Head of Products

May 2017 – Dec 2017 · 7 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

Responsible for strategy, roadmap and feature planning
Primary Interface between Product/Tech and Sales/Business, Marketing, Finance, Logistics, and Ops
Key product features launched: GST transition of the entire system, Reverse Auctions / Group deals / Multi-tier pricing, Seamless Hosted warehousing integration into StockOne, Logistics as a Service (LaaS) Proof of Concept, Fraud prevention and Process Adherence features in logistics

Stayzilla

Vice President (Products) / Interim Head of Design / Head of Content

May 2016 – Mar 2017 · 10 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

Owned the End to end guest product experience.
Growth, Search, Property page, Content, Payment, and Post Booking experiences
Website, Mobile Site, Android, iOS
Key product features launched
Brand new home page, Search listing page, and Property page
Guest reviews (Stayzilla collected and external)
Refer and Earn (Referrals scheme), RupeeSZ (Stayzilla credits)
Content
Revamped and managed the team
On-boarded a new image post processing team to improve property images
Design
Revamped team of UI/UX designers and Marketing Creative Designers
Improved Design-Product interaction efficiency
Co-located design and product teams in same office
On-boarded better tools and processes (Zeplin, JIRA, Slack)
Extensive people management across Product, Design, and Content teams
Participated in hiring and undesired/desired attrition situations.

Goibibo

Director, Products

Aug 2015 – May 2016 · 9 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

Product leader for Flights and associated verticals.
Own domestic and international flight verticals from a product perspective.
Responsible for the web and mobile media for the two verticals.

Cross-Functional Team BuildingCustomer obsession

Synopsys

2 roles

Manager, Software Engineering

Promoted

Mar 2012 – Aug 2015 · 3 yrs 5 mos · Bangalore

Rapidly built up the reusable components team
Team delivers robust reusable code components and tools that are used across Synopsys.
Consistent on-time robust delivery of components
Presented a methology paper in ISVLSI 2012
Command Coverage tool filed as a provisional patent in USPTO
Founder and lead for TPAC - an Innovation Advisory Council for Publications and Patents

Cross-Functional Team BuildingCustomer obsession

Manager R&D

Feb 2008 – Sep 2010 · 2 yrs 7 mos

Was a manager and individual contributor
Managed the dev team responsible for the logic synthesis of Altera/Actel OEM FPGAs
Also gained extensive experience in customer issue prioritization / negotiation

Cross-geographic management

Microsoft

Program Manager

Sep 2010 – Mar 2012 · 1 yr 6 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

Program Manager with Microsoft AdCenter (Nov 2011 - Mar 2012)
Part of the backend team of Bing Paid Search team.
International Roll-out PM
Program Manager with SQL Server Manageability (Sep 2010 - Nov 2011)
Handled several improvements in SQL Azure releases in 2010 and 2011.
Was one of the 'voices of the team' in the SQL Server MVP Community in Manageability issues

Engineering Leadership

Synfora inc

Product Specialist

Aug 2007 – Feb 2008 · 6 mos

Field Application Engineer for Asia-pac
Gained rich exposure in customer interaction
Promoting, supporting, and evangelizing the startup high level synthesis product

Cross-geographic managementEngineering Leadership

Cadence design systems

Member Consulting Staff

Oct 2003 – Jul 2007 · 3 yrs 9 mos · Noida Area, India

First team building experience (hiring for RTL Compiler team - and Encounter Test R&D)
Led the low power sub team of RTL Compiler in India
Experience in managing a team with extensive cross-geographic interaction.
Wrote high performance TCF, SAIF and CPF parsers for RTL Compiler from scratch.
Best paper award at the Cadence Internal Technical Conference in India
Presented at the Cadence Technical Conference (Global)

Cross-geographic management