Gopal Yendluri
Technology Leader · Former CTO · Principal Consultant
Summary
Hands-on technology leader and former CTO with 22+ years of experience building and scaling digital platforms across subscription e-commerce, logistics, customer experience, telecom and enterprise environments. Strong technical depth across backend engineering, cloud architecture, data platforms, scalability and operational resilience, with proven ability to translate business goals into executable technical roadmaps. Experienced in leading modernisation programmes, shaping technical direction, and building high-performing cross-country engineering teams. Still highly technical and actively hands-on, including driving adoption of AI-assisted development and agentic engineering workflows to accelerate delivery and improve quality.
CTO Capabilities
Professional Experience
Krigo Ltd
Technology consulting and advisory for founders, leadership teams and investors.
- Architecture and platform reviews with prioritised, costed recommendations.
- AI-assisted engineering adoption: tooling, guardrails, review practices and measurement.
- Fractional technology leadership and technical due diligence.
Freddie's Flowers
Led technology and engineering delivery for a subscription e-commerce business, accountable for platform stability, execution governance and technical direction across customer-facing systems and operational tooling.
- Delivered platform enhancements across subscription lifecycle, fulfilment workflows, checkout and payments.
- Led infrastructure and performance improvements to support peak trading readiness and reduce operational risk.
- Introduced safer release governance including feature flags, improved rollout patterns and deployment discipline.
- Built and scaled cross-country engineering teams across UK and offshore locations with consistent operating cadence.
- Implemented engineering productivity improvements using AI tooling, automated PR review and agentic delivery experiments.
- Led vendor evaluation and technical governance of third-party agencies and SaaS integrations.
TouchNote
Led technology and engineering delivery for a mobile-first consumer product, responsible for platform scalability, reliability, architecture evolution and cross-functional execution.
- Led engineering delivery across web, backend and data platforms supporting a mobile-first product.
- Supported the transition towards subscription-driven customer journeys and retention improvements.
- Implemented scalable ETL pipelines and a Redshift data warehouse to enable analytics and decision-making.
- Owned infrastructure, reliability and platform architecture across customer-facing and fulfilment systems, including AWS cost visibility and CI/CD improvements.
- Designed and built backend services for ordering, payments and fulfilment, and APIs for the iOS and Android apps.
- Partnered with Product and Commercial stakeholders to align roadmap delivery with business priorities.
- Built and led cross-country teams and delivery processes across locations.
- Handled 100K+ transactions/hour during London Olympics Samsung campaign (2012).
Independent Consulting / Contract Roles
Delivered continuous consulting engagements supporting platform delivery, integrations and systems implementation.
- Da!Travel: Travel booking platform delivery and meta-search integrations (Amadeus, Sabre, SkyScanner, Trivago).
- Grassroots Meetings & Events (BCD Events): Event booking platform including HPE rebrand delivery.
- Silverdoor: CRM/ERP implementation and Salesforce workflow integration.
Airhub
Worked on bulk SMS infrastructure and SMS gateway systems operating at high throughput.
- Built messaging gateway services using Kannel (open source SMS gateway).
- Optimised performance at high transaction volume (~200K TPS).
- Delivered a 40 million SMS per day campaign for a major regional political party across Andhra Pradesh.
Tata Consultancy Services (TCS)
Delivered IPTV platform integration work within enterprise delivery processes.
- IPTV platform integration work for Microsoft MediaRoom.
- VAS framework development for CDMA-based mobile networks.
Tanla Solutions
Worked on telecom billing systems, e-commerce workflows and VoD components.
Inmage Systems / Microsoft
Enterprise disaster recovery software development, focused on resilience and recoverability.
- Developed continuous disaster recovery platform with file and volume-based recovery.
- Engineered Rsync-based file replication system for data consistency.
- Built SQL Server Continuous Data Protection (CDP) system.
National Informatics Centre (NIC)
Delivered public sector systems. Excellence award from Vice Chancellor for university library automation.
AI / Engineering Automation
Education
Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech) in Computer Science Engineering
Recognition
Pennies Unsung Hero Award
Awarded for outstanding technical contribution enabling Freddie's Flowers' micro-donation integration with Pennies, allowing customers to round up payments to support UK charities. Freddie's Flowers also won the Partnership Breakthrough Award at the same ceremony.