Gopal Krishnan — VP of Engineering
Specialties: Engineering and cross-functional leadership, coaching / mentoring, inclusion & diversity, constant learner, creating and sustaining of highly-productive teams, hypothesis driven product development, large scale distributed systems, personalization, web crawl, vertical search, advertising. I love photography and painting. https://photos.google.com/share/AF1QipNSA19-GT3137P_FbdEaaprBUbn4nSLwTriyrncVFi1QQULGUP94Cean0qPhS7hOg?key=OVRwYVhvcUpiVVJlanlPOGdaRHBDdGt2Z0VqZTRB
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Media & Entertainment technology leader with extensive experience in engineering management and cross-functional leadership.
Location: Los Altos, California, United States
Experience: 27 yrs 7 mos
Skills
- Engineering Management
- Cross-functional Team Leadership
- Advertising
- Content Engineering
Career Highlights
- Led multiple teams at Netflix to optimize content creation.
- Pioneered advertising platform for Netflix in 12 markets.
- Awarded Yahoo Superstar Award for exceptional contributions.
Work Experience
Netflix
VP of Content & Business Products (8 mos)
VP of Content & Business Products Engineering (5 mos)
VP of Content Engineering (2 yrs 2 mos)
Vice President Of Engineering, Studio Production & Promotion (1 yr 10 mos)
Vice President of Engineering, Creative Production & Promotion (1 yr 11 mos)
Director, Marketing Technology (1 yr 8 mos)
Director of Engineering, Consumer Science (4 yrs 4 mos)
Director of Engineering, Product Infrastructure (2 yrs 3 mos)
Yahoo!
Director of Engineering, Yahoo Home Page (3 yrs 2 mos)
Engineering Manager, Y! Video (1 yr)
Engineering Manager, Vertical Search (Vespa) (2 yrs 8 mos)
Engineering Manager, Shopping Content Extraction Team (2 yrs 11 mos)
Senior Engineer, Y! Shopping (2 yrs 2 mos)
Oracle corp.
Senior Engineer (1 yr 5 mos)
Education
MS at Purdue University
B.S. at Tulane University