Gowtham Jayaram

Co-Founder

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India28 yrs 10 mos experience
Highly Stable

Key Highlights

  • Expert in transforming product vision into actionable strategies.
  • Proven track record in building high-impact engineering teams.
  • Strong experience in scaling startups for growth.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS and Fintech expert with strong product management and engineering leadership skills.

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Skills

Core Skills

Product ManagementAgileEngineering ManagementTechnology InnovationHealthcare TechnologyProduct DevelopmentE-commerce ManagementProject ManagementCustomer Solutions

Other Skills

Cloud ComputingContinuous Integration FrameworkCross-functional CollaborationCross-group DependenciesCustomer Requirement AnalysisData ExtractionE-commerceE-commerce IntegrationEngineering ExecutionEnterprise SoftwareEvent-driven MicroservicesHigh AvailabilityHiring Process RevampIntegrationInvestment Summarizer

About

As a Product & Technology Advisor, I partner with startups and founders to shape product strategy, define roadmaps, and drive execution. My strength lies in helping startups move from high-level concepts to clear, actionable product specs—shaping both intuitive user experiences and key technology choices. I ensure robust engineering execution, quality implementation, scalable architecture, and platform observability for long-term growth With experience across high-growth startups and large-scale companies, I bring both speed and structure—helping startups avoid common pitfalls while maintaining execution velocity. I enjoy collaborating with founders and engineering leaders to build high-impact products and teams. Whether you're navigating 0 to 1 or scaling for growth, I bring clarity, execution speed, and hard-earned insights to the journey. If you're solving exciting challenges—I'd love to connect.

Experience

Gorally

Product/Technology Advisor

Oct 2024Present · 1 yr 5 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · On-site

  • Collaborated with founders to shape product strategy toward a community-building platform based on market needs.
  • Authored MVP PRD, crystallizing startup vision into actionable specifications for development
  • Setup cost-effective, fixed-price product development with design & engineering partners
  • Drove best-practice implementation across UX/UI design, engineering, quality and observability
  • Orchestrated cross-functional collaboration b/w founders and development teams, ensuring high-quality MVP delivery within timeline
Product StrategyMVP PRDUX/UI DesignEngineering ExecutionCross-functional CollaborationProduct Management+1

Famo; family office wealth manangement

Product/Technology Advisor

Nov 2023Aug 2024 · 9 mos · Bangalore Urban, Karnataka, India · Hybrid

  • Drove MVP development enhancing platform with features like Investment Summarizer and Task Tracker. Strong early progress, but platform did not launch—happy to share learnings
MVP DevelopmentInvestment SummarizerTask TrackerProduct ManagementAgile

Razorpay

Senior Director; Engr Head Merchant Experience & Checkout

Dec 2020Apr 2023 · 2 yrs 4 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

  • Built the SME (Small Medium Enterprises) group from 10+ engrs to 130+ engrs
  • Revamped the front-end hiring process across Razorpay, implemented IDPs for all senior engrs
  • Provided ownership clarity across 15+ pods, drove e2e ownership decreasing cross-group dependencies
  • Championed & delivered business impacting products such as Magic Checkout, FE availability, RZP DevProd program (100% participation across Payments pods)
  • Created mission teams for horizontal initiatives such as Monitoring, Oncall & Product Support team
Team BuildingHiring Process RevampProduct DeliveryCross-group DependenciesEngineering ManagementProduct Management

Tripeur

CTO & CoFounder

Apr 2019Dec 2020 · 1 yr 8 mos · Bangalore

  • Business travel made easy; for the Traveller and the Company.
  • Differentiated Tripeur's Product by delivering tech driven innovations;
  • NLU and ML-driven dialog-mgmt contextual Bot for Email & WhatsApp interactions; easiest way for Travellers to access itinerary, tickets, and travel options
  • Content identification & Data extraction leveraging multiple OCR technologies; event-driven microservices/serverless architecture to drive end-2-end GST reconciliation
  • ML-driven prediction & WhatIf analysis to showcase fare variation. Incorporated Dr. Thaler's Nudge heuristics to influence Travellers to pick best travel plan
  • Realtime data collection across Platform leveraging event streams & ELK; analytics on Spend & Booking behavior, User Experience & API Metrics
  • Drove excellence & ownership across a young team; weekly commitments, code reviews, test cases, CI, notify stakeholders on errors in real-time
  • Continuous cross-functional interactions with Sales, Biz-Ops, and Marketing; Customer escalations, Sales pitch, Demos, Product launch
  • Tech used: Microservices, Serverless, Kinesis/Kafka, SQS, Airflow, ELK, Rasa, scikit, Apache Tika
NLUML-driven Dialog ManagementEvent-driven MicroservicesData ExtractionProduct ManagementTechnology Innovation

Nightingales home healthcare india

CTO

Nov 2015Apr 2019 · 3 yrs 5 mos · Bangalore

  • Outcome-based health services @ home, leveraging Tech to drive operational efficiency, clinical excellence, and non-linear revenue growth. Funded by Fidelity Growth Partners & Mahindra Partners
  • Digitized all business lines; Implemented guide-rails for business workflow; Provided Stakeholders ability to track and optimize Productivity & Realization; Enabled orderly scaling of business pan India.
  • Product, Engineering & Operation ownership of new product lines;
  • Medical Equipments: Inventory mgmt, Forward & Reverse logistics leveraging 3rd party Order & Logistics mgmt systems.
  • Remote Patient Monitoring: Patient, Doctor & CareCenter Apps to Prescribe, Monitor, Notify, and Alert on patient-specific care-plans (Vitals, Medications, Labs).
  • Nightingales Call center; tracked lead funnel, fixed leakage & increased conversion
Operational EfficiencyProduct OwnershipRemote Patient MonitoringHealthcare TechnologyProduct Management

Ezetap mobile solutions pvt. ltd

VP Engineering

May 2014Nov 2015 · 1 yr 6 mos · Bangalore

  • Ezetap platform transforms mobile device into an intelligent and integrated 'point of payment' solution enabling deep integrations with 3rd party CRM/Billing systems.
  • Built Engr org; Completed acqui-hire; drove development best-practices; made platform measurable, manageable & debuggable.
  • Optimized platform from thousands to over million txns; 10 times increase in GTV
  • Designed continuous-integration framework (~1000 regression suite tests); making development & deployment process repeatable and reliable.
Platform DevelopmentIntegrationContinuous Integration FrameworkEngineering ManagementProduct Development

Y! store

Director Engineering

Nov 2011Apr 2014 · 2 yrs 5 mos · Bangalore, India

  • Engineering head for Y! Store, a world-leading eCommerce platform that hosts 44k Merchants and supports $3.2 billion in annual sales.
  • Integrations with leading banks, shippers, gateways, search engines, and several third parties.
  • Massively scalable + Highly available: ~60 tps, 600 machines across 2 data centers.
E-commerce IntegrationScalabilityHigh AvailabilityE-commerce ManagementEngineering Management

Nuance communications

3 roles

Country Manager, Solutions Delivery, India & ASEAN

Promoted

Feb 2010Nov 2011 · 1 yr 9 mos

  • Built Solutions Delivery team for India & ASEAN region from ground-up. Complete responsibility for solution delivery starting with understanding customer requirement, estimation, design, development and customer sign-off on the deployed solutions for India & ASEAN region.
Solution DeliveryCustomer Requirement AnalysisProject ManagementCustomer Solutions

Senior Manager, VXML platform & OAM

Promoted

Jul 2005Feb 2010 · 4 yrs 7 mos

  • Responsible for defining requirements, design, development and delivery of next generation Nuance Management Station (NMS), Nuance Voice Browser (NVB) & Nuance Core Services (NCS) products; the customer facing components of Nuance Voice Platform (NVP). Established India development teams for all these components and successfully moved the complete product development to India. Headed an organization spread across multiple sites; Sunnyvale, Montreal & Bangalore.
Product DevelopmentTeam ManagementProduct ManagementEngineering Management

Software Engineer, Core Group & OAM Group

Jul 1998Jul 2005 · 7 yrs

Sensory

Software Engineer

Feb 1998Jul 1998 · 5 mos

Centigram communications

DSP Engineer

May 1994Feb 1998 · 3 yrs 9 mos

Education

Louisiana Tech University

Masters — Biomedical Engineering

Dec 1991Apr 1994

University of Mysore

Bachelor — Electrical Engineering

Jan 1986Jan 1990

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