Gokul Sridharan

CEO

Dallas, Fort Worth, United States16 yrs 11 mos experience
Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

  • Led a global solutions engineering team expansion.
  • Achieved 100% revenue growth YoY for two years.
  • Expert in driving digital transformation strategies.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS expert with a strong focus on customer experience and solution engineering.

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Skills

Core Skills

Strategic VisionGlobal LeadershipCustomer-focused ServiceSoftware As A Service (saas)

Other Skills

Computer TechnologyDigital InnovationPerformance MeasurementWorking with System IntegratorsDealsCoachingTeam BuildingRevenue GrowthSales EngineeringProcess DefinitionRevenue GenerationCustomer Experience ManagementPost-Sale SupportTeam LeadershipTraining Development

About

Passionate, Enthusiastic, Innovative and Energetic are the words that often come to mind when someone meets me. I am ITIL, AWS, SaFe Certified, a DevOps evangelist trying to help companies succeed in their strategies towards Digital Transformation and have a diverse background in different industries ranging from Hospitality to IT Services.Having a high level of technology skills coupled with my confidence, my goal has always been to become a leader. Please feel free to ask any DevOps related questions/clarifications! My Mission Statement: "To be a thought provoking leader in all the things that I do!"

Experience

16 yrs 11 mos
Total Experience
2 yrs
Average Tenure
3 yrs 4 mos
Current Experience

Katalon

3 roles

VP of Global Solutions engineering

Promoted

Apr 2025Present · 1 yr 1 mo

Sr.Director- Global Solution Engineering

Promoted

Jan 2023Present · 3 yrs 4 mos

  • Katalon, being a high paced startup & a highly technical product, demands technical & consultative excellence. Built a Global SE team, covering AMER, APAC and EMEA & grew the team by 5x, within a span of 8 months, primarily recruiting through personal network. My team at Katalon covers 4 different aspects of Sales/Solution engineering: Customer facing SE, Partner facing SE, E-Comm Product specialist & post sales adoption SE. My team and I contribute to most of the revenue the company generates via all channels from a technical perspective. Personally, I helped grow the company's revenue 100% YoY over the last 2 years.
Strategic VisionGlobal LeadershipComputer TechnologyDigital InnovationCustomer-Focused ServicePerformance Measurement+3

Director of Solution Engineering - North America & Global

Dec 2021Jan 2023 · 1 yr 1 mo

  • In my role as the solution engineering leader for Katalon, I am building a stellar SE team, defining processes & driving process changes to help the organization grow & adapt to changes faster which in-turn would help drive incremental revenue for the company!
Strategic VisionComputer TechnologyCustomer-Focused ServicePerformance MeasurementWorking with System IntegratorsSoftware as a Service (SaaS)+1

Qa collective

Dream Alchemist at Quality Collective

Jun 2022Jan 2023 · 7 mos · United States

  • This is a "no pitch zone" group for professionals to come together and advance the QA community.
  • We will have virtual and local meetups. And a Community Slack where you can ask questions, post jobs, learn about events, and work together to help advance the QA community.

Presales collective

2022 PSC Ambassador

Jan 2022Apr 2025 · 3 yrs 3 mos

Micro focus

3 roles

Director - Global Customer experience (Fortify AppSec)

Nov 2021Dec 2021 · 1 mo

  • Help strengthen the end to end customer experience for AppSec customers across the globe. This starts with a try and buy process all the way to post sale customer experience.

Solution Engineering Leader- Fortify Application Security

Nov 2020Nov 2021 · 1 yr

  • In my role as the Solution Engineering Leader for the sales teams in Canada and NA territory teams for the Fortify, I currently lead a team of solution engineering experts. This role helps me take the knowledge I have gained on DevOps for the last 7 years and apply it to the Application Security world. On a day to day basis, I connect with multiple leaders across the organizations including Sales, Marketing, Customer Success, Support etc to help alleviate challenges the team faces on a day to day basis. Help the team build effective training programs on solutions, executing end to end technical execution for customer engagements & provide overall thought leadership. Working closely with Sales leaders to help with revenue commitments for the business and to help build programs that can help with R4Q pipeline.
Strategic VisionComputer TechnologyDigital InnovationCustomer-Focused ServicePerformance MeasurementWorking with System Integrators+2

Manager- Solution Architect/Sales Engineers (Application Delivery Management Business Unit)

Nov 2018Nov 2020 · 2 yrs

Strategic VisionDigital InnovationCustomer-Focused ServicePerformance MeasurementWorking with System IntegratorsSoftware as a Service (SaaS)+1

Presales collective

2 roles

Special Programs Leader- PSC Leadership Team

Promoted

Jan 2021Apr 2025 · 4 yrs 3 mos

  • Working with the core committee of Presales Collective to support the presales community with innovative, new & energetic programs that are impactful to the community, like tech enablement training, demo days & other exciting programs coming up soon.

Leadership Member

Jan 2021Jan 2021 · 0 mo

Software as a Service (SaaS)

Ca technologies

2 roles

Presales Team Lead

Apr 2016Nov 2018 · 2 yrs 7 mos · Plano, Texas

Strategic VisionSoftware as a Service (SaaS)Coaching

Presales Consultant

Jul 2014Apr 2016 · 1 yr 9 mos · Plano, Texas

  • In my current position as a Presales consultant, I help clients understand their current needs/requirements and make sure I can solve those needs/requirements with the help of CA’s Solutions in the DevOps focus area. I build and deliver out of the box demonstrations to customers and also have help my counterparts work on Proof of Concepts with customer.
  • My focus under our DevOps Solutions are as described below:
  • A test automation tool designed for True Agile Development called Lisa Service Virtualization, Release Automation tool to help you deploy faster
  • Test Data management, a solution that's designed to help you get the right test cases and test data to enhance your development process.
Strategic VisionSoftware as a Service (SaaS)Coaching

La quinta

2 roles

E-Commerce Intern

Promoted

Jan 2014May 2014 · 4 mos · Dallas/Fort Worth Area

  • Currently involved in planning, creation and execution of the testing strategy to be used by La Quinta Inns and Suites for implementing the migration from the legacy systems to Adobe Test & Target and Site Catalyst.
  • Actively learning the process of how Adobe Test& target works and acting as point of knowledge to transfer some knowledge to key stakeholders to gain an insight on the software.
  • Performing the UAT and User Testing on the LQ.com website for Tablet’s Site released recently.
  • Deep understanding of how marketing campaigns work and how Test & target software plays a major role in defining dynamic content according to the data received from Site Catalyst.

Junior IT Architect Intern

May 2013Aug 2013 · 3 mos · Dallas/Fort Worth Area

  • Working with the La Quinta corporate IT Team to understand the process flow of the IT Architechture and work on the Project Management Process.
  • Routine Work Includes:
  • Analyzing the Business Process to bring about Quality in the Process and to review and study new products in the market that can add value to the business operations.
  • Interacting with vendors and getting the progress on the development process.
  • Working on Enterprise Architect to create new and redesigning existing models.
  • To understand the working process of the organization and to suggest improvements.
  • Review and establish pilot phase of a small footprint POS System.

Walt disney world

Workforce management reporting and analytics intern

Aug 2013Jan 2014 · 5 mos · Orlando, Florida Area

  • Documenting and reviewing business processes and suggesting improvements to existing business flow.
  • Developing a Reporting tool in C# which would be used by the team for effective communication.
  • Framing process definitions for the existing PMO process and progress tracking mechanism in the workforce management team.
  • Understanding the business process of Walt Disney world and analyzing the business process behind the brand new magic band concept for efficient data retrieval.

University of texas at dallas

2 roles

Global Student Ambassador

May 2013Aug 2013 · 3 mos · Dallas/Fort Worth Area

  • As a Global Student Ambassador at the University of Texas at Dallas we plan to visit growing businesses which require support to grow.This is a joint effort from the UT Dallas Career Management Center and the Richardson Mayor's office.

Comet Caller

Feb 2013May 2013 · 3 mos · Dallas/Fort Worth Area

  • A part time on campus job where we interact with alumni of the school to learn their experience and see how they could help the institution grow.

Burns controls company

Strategic Consultant

Dec 2012May 2013 · 5 mos · Dallas

  • Developed a framework based expansion strategy for Dallas based electronic distributor.Identified approaches to be taken in order to increase utility of Sales men who were operating across USA for Burns Control Company.

The snack shack

Co-Founder

Nov 2011Nov 2015 · 4 yrs · Chennai

  • Co-Founder @ Snack Shack a snack joint in Chennai which is fast expanding.
  • Serves snack foods like Sandwiches/Shakes/Burgers/Pizzas/Indian Desi Chaat/Mocktails & Deserts

Accenture services ltd

Associate Software Engineer

Jun 2011Aug 2012 · 1 yr 2 mos

  • Health & Public Service Domain Client:
  • A multiple module code was developed using Java Platform in particular with the Spring & Hibernate programming languages.
  • The Solution Design Document for the above module was configured and implemented.
  • The correctness of the code was tested using JUnit, JMeter, EMMA, SOAPUI (for regression testing) and the results were projected.
  • Managerial Experience: Mar 2012 -Aug 2012 (5 Months)
  •  Telecom Domain Client:
  •  Managed projects using Microsoft Project tool.
  •  Prepared a Cost Reduction Analysis Report and a Weekly Status Report.
  •  Calculated time variance and developed a plan for Work management (for 300 employees)
  •  Budget allocation was done for the above.
  •  Identified and analysed problems related to it and amicable solutions were provided.

Bhash software labs

Business Development Manager

Jan 2009Jan 2011 · 2 yrs

  • Sales/marketing/Signing Sponsorship Deals/Dealing with Bulk SMS Products
  • Involved.

Education

The University of Texas at Dallas

Masters — Information Technology Management

Jan 2012Jan 2014

College of Engineering Guindy, Chennai

Bachelor's degree — Computer Science

Jan 2007Jan 2011

Indian school muscat

High School — Computer Science

Jan 2006Jan 2007

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