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Gopal Krishnan

VP of Engineering

Los Altos, California, United States27 yrs 7 mos experience
Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key 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.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Media & Entertainment technology leader with extensive experience in engineering management and cross-functional leadership.

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Skills

Core Skills

Engineering ManagementCross-functional Team LeadershipAdvertisingContent Engineering

Other Skills

ScalabilityLarge Scale SystemsDistributed Team ManagementCloud ComputingMentoringDistributed SystemsStreaming MediaSystem ArchitectureApacheAmazon Web Services (AWS)Software DevelopmentWeb DevelopmentRESTWeb ServicesBig Data

About

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

Experience

27 yrs 7 mos
Total Experience
9 yrs 2 mos
Average Tenure
15 yrs 3 mos
Current Experience

Netflix

8 roles

VP of Content & Business Products

Aug 2025Present · 8 mos

  • I lead the Product & Engineering function for Content & Business Products (CBP). CBP uses technology and data to optimize and automate the content creation process including content slate planning, financing, production, promotion, and distribution. We support Netflix's enterprise needs including Finance, Talent, Legal, Customer Service, Tech Support, A/V, and Tech sourcing and ensure smooth operations for all employees.
Engineering ManagementCross-functional Team LeadershipScalabilityLarge Scale SystemsDistributed Team ManagementCloud Computing+21

VP of Content & Business Products Engineering

Apr 2025Sep 2025 · 5 mos

VP of Content Engineering

Jan 2023Mar 2025 · 2 yrs 2 mos

  • I lead the Content Engineering team. We optimize and automate the creation of TV shows and Movies through technology and data. This includes the planning, production, globalization, promotion and marketing, launch activities.
  • We support Netflix's fast growing ads business by launching fully owned and operated advertising stack - Netflix Advertising Suite (NAS) in 12 markets. This includes all aspects of the ads platform:
  • supply (ad serving, interfacing with member systems, supporting SVOD/Live streaming, etc.)
  • demand (advertising facing interfaces, measurement, finance, ....)
  • foundational capabilities for ads, etc.
Engineering ManagementCross-functional Team LeadershipScalabilityLarge Scale SystemsDistributed Team ManagementCloud Computing+21

Vice President Of Engineering, Studio Production & Promotion

Mar 2021Jan 2023 · 1 yr 10 mos

  • Lead the backend engineering team with the following focus areas:
  • (1) Studio Production develops software to automate Netflix Studio's content productions from script to screen. We help free up creative resources to focus on what's important, producing amazing & entertaining content. The goal is to effectively optimize the production process for efficiency and transparency.
  • (2) Creative Production & Promotion's goal is to improve member impact by launching and promoting our content at scale with declining cost per promotional assets per title. Our primary partners are the Creative Production, Marketing, and Communications team.
  • (3) Building up the nascent advertising platform to support the new subscription plans in partnership with Microsoft/Xandr.
Engineering ManagementCross-functional Team LeadershipScalabilityLarge Scale SystemsDistributed Team ManagementCloud Computing+21

Vice President of Engineering, Creative Production & Promotion

Promoted

Mar 2019Feb 2021 · 1 yr 11 mos

  • CPP team’s purpose is to equip Netflix to tell stories about stories, by launching and promoting great content at scale.  We build technology that enables effective production and distribution of creatives.  We partner with many internal teams such as Creative Production, Marketing, and Publicity.  Together our products manage a $2+ billion budget and millions of assets.
  • We build products such as those to support
  • Globalization needs including subtitles and dubs for all Netflix content, localizing our consumer experience.
  • Creation of promotional media assets (e.g. trailers, artwork).
  • Title setup, orchestrating promotional beats, efficient delivery and validation of media at scale.
  • Marketing campaign planning across paid media (including programmatic), owned media (e.g. Netflix Tudum site), and earned media (journalist facing interface).
  • In General Manager capacity leading Product/Design/Engineering the first year. Promoted to VP in 2020.
Engineering ManagementCross-functional Team LeadershipScalabilityLarge Scale SystemsDistributed Team ManagementCloud Computing+21

Director, Marketing Technology

Promoted

Jul 2017Mar 2019 · 1 yr 8 mos

  • General Manager role handling Product, Design, and Engineering for Marketing Technology.
  • Helping make Netflix Marketing more efficient with their time and money. As a part of this mission, we help with all aspects of engineering from paid media optimization, workflow optimization to create marketing assets/publicity event planning/awards campaign management, etc.
  • In summary, help with all technology needs for earned, owned, and paid media.
  • Earned media - creating organic news cycles through publicity events, talent, etc.
  • Owned media - publishing content through social media channels for fans
  • Paid media - advertising through online (FB, YT), and offline channels (TV, OOH)
  • We work in close concert with a range of other teams including programmatic, planning&analysis, economists, machine learning researchers, other engineering teams, marketing operations, publicity, social, etc.
Engineering ManagementCross-functional Team LeadershipScalabilityLarge Scale SystemsDistributed Team ManagementCloud Computing+21

Director of Engineering, Consumer Science

Feb 2013Jun 2017 · 4 yrs 4 mos

  • Helping increase the rate of innovation by A/B testing the member personalization experience.
Engineering ManagementCross-functional Team LeadershipScalabilityLarge Scale SystemsDistributed Team ManagementCloud Computing+21

Director of Engineering, Product Infrastructure

Oct 2010Jan 2013 · 2 yrs 3 mos

  • Building scaleable infrastructure for Netflix product in the early days of our cloud. Microservices to help with personalization, video metadata, caching, partner signup integration, server performance optimization, etc.
Engineering ManagementCross-functional Team LeadershipScalabilityLarge Scale SystemsDistributed Team ManagementCloud Computing+21

Yahoo!

5 roles

Director of Engineering, Yahoo Home Page

Promoted

Aug 2007Oct 2010 · 3 yrs 2 mos

  • Engineering lead for yahoo's global frontpage team in charge of http://www.yahoo.com/ and all 30+ other international entrypoints such as UK, France, India, Mexico, etc.
  • Awarded prestigious Yahoo Superstar Award in 2009. Given to 10 individuals each year.
  • Manage a globally distributed team across 4 different timezones.
  • Promoted to Senior Engineering Manager in beginning of 2008. First member of the massive effort to consolidate and globalize the frontpage code base, migrate to a new product.
Engineering ManagementCross-functional Team LeadershipScalabilityLarge Scale SystemsDistributed Team ManagementCloud Computing+21

Engineering Manager, Y! Video

Aug 2006Aug 2007 · 1 yr

  • Led the frontend development team for http://video.yahoo.com/. Helped create a new destination site with various social features like sharing, tagging, user uploads, etc. Also held responsibility for aspects of backend infrastructure like uploads, publisher database, etc
Engineering ManagementCross-functional Team LeadershipScalabilityLarge Scale SystemsDistributed Team ManagementCloud Computing+21

Engineering Manager, Vertical Search (Vespa)

Dec 2003Aug 2006 · 2 yrs 8 mos

  • Engineering lead for Yahoo! internal platform for vertical search content acquisition/crawling, entity recognition, data mining. Formed the team that helped create the platform from scratch and ended up with 20+ teams within yahoo dependent on the technology for content to power sites like Y! shopping, Y! mobile, Y! local, Y! hotjobs, Y! video, etc.
Engineering ManagementCross-functional Team LeadershipScalabilityLarge Scale SystemsDistributed Team ManagementCloud Computing+21

Engineering Manager, Shopping Content Extraction Team

Jan 2002Dec 2004 · 2 yrs 11 mos

  • Hands on engineering contributor as well as technical lead/manager for a 10 person team that helped generate up to 100 million merchant listings for Yahoo! Shopping site by automatically crawling shopping sites on the web and identifying key product information and fed them into Y! shopping's search index. Evolved the technoglogy stack as we used increasingly sophisticated technology starting with pattern matching, to rule based heuristics to ultimately machine learning to determine accurate product listings.
Engineering ManagementCross-functional Team LeadershipScalabilityLarge Scale SystemsDistributed Team ManagementCloud Computing+21

Senior Engineer, Y! Shopping

Oct 1999Dec 2001 · 2 yrs 2 mos

  • Engineer working on Remote Merchant Integration (RMI) project in Y! Shopping that allowed Yahoo to integrate external merchant's sites like Gap, Eddie Bauer, etc. by proxying their site and tacking on Yahoo co-branding while providing add on services like multi-site integrated shopping card and order information. This involved lots of content extraction and parsing of html, javascript, css, flash, etc. All development was done in C++ and Perl.
  • Promoted from Engineering to Senior Engineer in Jan 2001.
Engineering ManagementCross-functional Team LeadershipScalabilityLarge Scale SystemsDistributed Team ManagementCloud Computing+21

Oracle corp.

Senior Engineer

May 1998Oct 1999 · 1 yr 5 mos

  • Working in the security team in the core RDBMS (Server Technologies) working on row level security.

Education

Purdue University

MS — computer science

Jan 1996Jan 1998

Tulane University

B.S. — double major in Computer Science and Electrical Engineering

Jan 1993Jan 1996

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