Krishnakanth Govindaraju

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Hyderabad, Telangana, India16 yrs 3 mos experience

Highly StableAI Enabled

Key Highlights

Leading AI innovation at Tata Vayu, India's first hyperscaler.
Expert in building scalable cloud-native systems.
Proven track record in managing high-performing engineering teams.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS and Cloud Computing expert with a strong focus on AI-driven solutions.

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Skills

Core Skills

Enterprise SoftwareEnterprise ArchitectureDistributed SystemsSoftware As A Service (saas)

Other Skills

Generative AI StudioLeading Development TeamsElastic Stack (ELK)Open-Source SoftwarePeople ManagementJavaProduct DevelopmentStrategyBusiness StrategyCloud ApplicationsLarge Language Models (LLM)Gen AIworkflowAgentic platformPlatform Architecture

About

With a strong focus on AI innovation and close collaboration with C-suite leadership, I am excited to take on the role of Head of AI & Cloud Product Development at Tata Communications, where I will be leading the development of Tata Vayu, India’s first purpose-built hyperscaler. This platform will harness the power of Cloud and AI to drive scalable, transformative solutions for enterprises globally. Previously, I’ve had the privilege of collaborating closely with C-suite leadership and product managers to drive AI innovations at Freshworks, powering billions of tokens monthly. I also led large-scale distributed systems in Semantic & Lexical Search and Observability offerings. At Oracle, I contributed to developing the OCI Database-as-a-Service offering, further honing my expertise in scalable cloud-native systems. Passionate about engineering excellence, I am committed to building high-performing, employee-first teams that follow the ethos of family—where trust, care, and innovation thrive together.

Experience

16 yrs 3 mos

Total Experience

7 yrs 11 mos

Average Tenure

5 mos

Current Experience

Tata communications

2 roles

Head of Product & Engineering Development- Tata Vayu Cloud

Promoted

Jan 2026 – Present · 5 mos · Hyderabad, Telangana, India

Vice President & Head of AI Cloud Engineering Development

Sep 2025 – Dec 2025 · 3 mos · Hyderabad, Telangana, India

AI Cloud Business Unit - Tata Vayu
https://www.tatacommunications.com/solutions/cloud-vayu/

Enterprise SoftwareGenerative AI Studio

Freshworks

2 roles

Director of Engineering

Promoted

Apr 2023 – Aug 2025 · 2 yrs 4 mos · Hyderabad, Telangana, India

Leading AI Foundations, AI Trust, and Agentic Platform initiatives at one of the fastest-growing SaaS companies worldwide. Driving the design and enhancement of product architecture that is highly reliable, scalable, secure, cost-efficient, deployable, and GenAI-enabled—collaborating closely with C-suite management, customers & talented team of engineers, product managers, architects.

Enterprise ArchitectureLeading Development Teams

Senior Engineering Manager

Apr 2021 – Apr 2023 · 2 yrs · Hyderabad, Telangana, India

Leading the development of a world-class Search platform that powers real-time search capabilities across all of Freshworks’ award-winning products, including robust support for multiple languages. My team manages these services at scale, ensuring world-class SLAs and SLOs while handling billions of requests and petabytes of data daily.
Designed and built a cost-effective Observability service from the ground up, enabling engineering and DevOps teams to gain deep visibility, implement SLOs seamlessly, and accelerate the delivery of reliable software.

Elastic Stack (ELK)Open-Source SoftwareDistributed Systems

Oracle

2 roles

Software Engineering Manager

Promoted

Jan 2018 – Mar 2021 · 3 yrs 2 mos

Led Product Engineering Development for Oracle’s VMBM PaaS Cloud Services within the Database-as-a-Service (DBaaS) offering (https://cloud.oracle.com/database) in Hyderabad. Established and served as Site Head, building the engineering team from the ground up in Hyderabad.

Software as a Service (SaaS)People Management