Yogi Chopra

CTO

San Jose, California, United States27 yrs 4 mos experience

Highly Stable

Key Highlights

15+ years of experience in software development leadership.
Expert in cloud solutions and distributed systems.
Proven track record in scaling enterprise-level architectures.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Cloud Computing and Distributed Systems expert with a focus on enterprise solutions.

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Skills

Core Skills

LeadershipCloud ComputingSecurity ManagementDistributed Systems

Other Skills

Software DevelopmentData Center VirtualizationPKISSL/TLSMonitoringNotification ServicesKubernetesCloud SolutionsScalingSoftware EngineeringSoftware Project ManagementLinuxAgile MethodologiesSQLTCP/IP

About

Seasoned technology leader with 15+ years experience in leading software development. Highly experienced in playing multiple roles such as Product Management, System architect and engaging with customers on roadmap delivery, conferences. Track record of building and leading high energy engineering teams from inception to delivering projects, across multiple geos. Specialities: Engineering Management, Mentoring, Technical due diligence in mergers & acquisitions, Scaling and performance improvements in distributed systems, Building cloud solutions and winning customer delight. Current focus areas: Scalability of control plane for management of large number of clusters, Architecting and building a kubernetes based cloud native platform for running Nutanix services, Providing High availability with backup & restore capabilities within and across data centers.

Experience

Google

Engineering Leader at Google

May 2025 – Present · 10 mos · California, United States · On-site

Distributed SystemsLeadershipCloud ComputingSoftware DevelopmentData Center Virtualization

Amazon web services (aws)

Engineering Leader

Dec 2020 – Oct 2025 · 4 yrs 10 mos · Santa Clara, California, United States · On-site

As part of AWS Cryptography team, I own the Amazon internal public key infrastructure (PKI) and AWS Certificate Manager (ACM) that helps provision, manage, and deploy public and private SSL/TLS certificates with AWS services and your internal connected resources. Bringing Certificate Expiration to zero is a core tenet of my team and have built monitoring and notification services to safeguard against certificate related risks. Trust stores are integral to PKI, my team owns the curation, build and working with partners on distribution of trust stores.

Nutanix

Engineering Leader

Apr 2019 – Dec 2020 · 1 yr 8 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

Scaling the Prism Central to be able manage hundreds of clusters and thousands of user vms for enterprise customers. Bringing the control plane architecture to Kubernetes for resource efficiency and scaleout across clusters to help enterprise customers.

Stratacache

4 roles

SVP Software Development

Mar 2017 – Jan 2019 · 1 yr 10 mos

Over 19 years of experience in leading software development projects from gathering business requirements to developing solutions.
Leading development for Digital signage solutions for Android Tablets and Phones providing solutions to the leading retailers in the world. Working on multiple products with cross-platform teams to build cutting edge solutions.
Highly motivated and proven track record of delivering business growth.
Skilled at working with customers and ability to communicate effectively on technical and business at all levels in an organization.

SVP Software Development | SVP Engineering

Promoted

Mar 2017 – Jan 2019 · 1 yr 10 mos

VP Software Development

Jun 2014 – Jan 2017 · 2 yrs 7 mos

Software Development Manager

Mar 2005 – Jun 2014 · 9 yrs 3 mos

Prn llc

SVP Engineering

Mar 2017 – Jan 2019 · 1 yr 10 mos · Transamerica Pyramid, 18th Floor, 600 Montgomery St, San Francisco, CA 94111

Lead Software Development team and Engineering teams at PRN, As part of the recent acquisition of LIFT product build a new team to deliver the product to the next level and grow the product to new businesses. Leading product management and actively helping PRN for developing solutions for Retail networks.