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PRADEEP GUDIPATI

Fractional CTO & Engineering Leader | Enterprise Software & AI Systems Architect | Helping SMEs Build Modern Software Products

+917093750123pradeepgudipati@gmail.comhttps://www.linkedin.com/in/pradeepgudipati/https://pradeepcg.com/Hyderabad, India
Pradeep Gudipati

EXECUTIVE PROFILE

Technology Director and Fractional CTO with 22+ years of experience building software products, modernizing enterprise platforms, and translating technology strategy into measurable business outcomes.

  • Led engineering organizations of up to 120+ professionals and delivered digital banking products serving 3M+ users.
  • Partner with founders and executive stakeholders on technology strategy, product architecture, enterprise modernization, AI adoption, and delivery transformation.
  • Built platforms across FinTech, enterprise SaaS, digital health, mobility, workflow automation, and Generative AI.
  • Combine executive leadership with hands-on architecture across AI agents, RAG and enterprise knowledge, cloud-native systems, integrations, DevSecOps, and platform engineering.
  • Delivered measurable improvements including 10-minute release cycles, 60% higher QA throughput, 40% better deployment reliability and incident resolution, and 25% higher team retention.

KEY ACHIEVEMENTS

Forward-Deployed Engineering

Bridged business, operations, and engineering to turn complex workflows into scalable digital solutions and drive end-to-end digitalization.

AI led Delivery

Accelerated Delivery using AI tools for Coding, automation, deployment, system design.

AI Therapeutic Agents

Built AI platform, boosting therapeutic interactions for 50 users daily.

Automated Release Engineering

Implemented GitOps and CI/CD automation for a 70-member engineering organization, reducing release cycles to 10 minutes and enabling reliable, near-autonomous deployments.

Team Retention Growth

Led 25% YoY team retention improvement by fostering engineers as leaders.

Recruitment Optimization

Automated Analysis of 100k resumes to streamline recruitment for diverse global teams.

EXPERIENCE

Fractional CTO

VASPP

10/2025 - PresentHyderabad, India
  • Partner with executive stakeholders on product strategy, enterprise architecture, AI solutions, and modernization of business-critical applications.
  • Lead cross-functional product and full-stack delivery, turning complex workflows into scalable platforms that improve operational efficiency and business decision-making.

EDUCATION & CERTIFICATIONS

M.Tech. - CSE - 2026

KMCE - JNTU Hyderabad

Project Management Professional (PMP)®

Project Management Institute

Certified SAFe® 6 Practice Consultant

Scaled Agile, Inc.

General Management Program

ISB Hyderabad

Google Cloud Big Data & Machine Learning Fundamentals

Google

Creating Successful new Products at IIM Bangalore

Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore

Bachelors in Engineering - 2004

PCCE - Goa University

AWARDS

SAP and Google Apps Challenge

SAP Mobile Apps Challenge for Windows 8 and Windows Phone 2014

EXPERIENCE

Co-founder - Fractional CTO

Kovaad Technologies Private Limited

02/2024 - PresentRemote
  • Co-founded an AI product company focused on digital therapeutics for neurodiverse users; define product roadmap, AI strategy, platform architecture, and commercialization priorities.
  • Lead engineering and customer validation for an adaptive LLM-based communication-training platform with context-aware memory, multi-agent orchestration, and production observability.

Technical Matcher

Turing

08/2024 - 01/2026Hyderabad, India
  • Architected AI-powered recruitment intelligence that transformed candidate matching, interview analytics, deduplication, and knowledge-management workflows.
  • Delivered solutions processing 100K+ resumes, 10K+ interview assessments, and a 300K-profile talent knowledge base for data-driven hiring decisions.

Head Of Engineering

tonik

06/2021 - 05/2024Chennai, India
  • Directed a 70-120-member organization across mobile, backend, QA, and DevOps, delivering digital banking products to 3M+ users in Southeast Asia.
  • Reduced release cycles from hours to 10 minutes through CI/CD automation and increased QA throughput by 60% through Python-based test engineering.
  • Introduced observability and GitOps workflows that improved deployment reliability and incident-resolution speed by 40%, while sponsoring AI prototypes for customer service and fraud detection.
  • Developed senior engineers into technology leaders, improving retention by 25% YoY and achieving a 70% success rate in hiring high-performing engineers.

Head Of Development

Wave Money

03/2020 - 05/2021Yangon, Myanmar
  • Led engineering execution for Wave Agent and Wave Pay, expanding financial access, growing the mobile-wallet user base by 25%, and supporting 2M+ transactions monthly.
  • Improved transaction efficiency by 25% across consumer-wallet and OTC agent journeys.
  • Integrated CI/CD with test automation to improve release confidence, delivery speed, and operational reliability.

PROJECTS

GGUF Switchboard

2025 - Present

Open-source Rust control plane for running and switching local GGUF models through one OpenAI-compatible API.

  • Built controlled single-GPU model switching around llama.cpp while preserving in-flight requests.
  • Added model discovery, registry management, accelerated downloads, integrity validation, streaming, and Responses API tool support.

ContextHarbor

2025 - Present

Private, self-hosted enterprise knowledge platform that turns organizational documents into source-backed context for teams and approved AI tools.

  • Built project-scoped hybrid retrieval, semantic chunking, RBAC, document controls, and optional reranking.
  • Exposed knowledge through Web UI, REST, and Remote MCP with deployment, observability, and evaluation support.

SEG Automotive

11/2025 - PresentLocation

Cost and Sales Analytics

  • Digitalizing the current Excel based workflows to optimize speed, accuracy and analytics of cost and sales.

Kovaad

01/2024 - PresentLocation

AI platform for neurodiverse individuals to practice, improve, and gain confidence through personalized conversations.

  • 25 neurodiverse children practicing communication skills on Kovaad daily.
  • Scaling to 50 in a few months.

EXPERIENCE

Technical Manager to Senior Technology Manager / Program Director

Innominds

02/2016 - 03/2020Hyderabad, India
  • Progressed through technology and program leadership roles, directing 30+ engineers across architecture, product delivery, engineering operations, and customer engagements.
  • Led Microsoft Dynamics CRM offshore delivery and strategic programs for Microsoft, Qualcomm, Deloitte, Axway, and other global enterprises.
  • Delivered platforms spanning CRM, HIPAA-compliant healthcare, retail IoT, energy analytics, SDK generation, and VR streaming over 5G.
  • Improved delivery predictability, cross-functional collaboration, engineering practices, and talent development across distributed teams.

Mobile Technology Head and Innovation leader

Innovapptive Inc

03/2015 - 02/2016Hyderabad
  • Led 70+ cross-platform engineers across Android, iOS, Windows, and JavaScript product teams, fostering innovation and accountable technical leadership.
  • Established engineering standards, CI/CD practices, and Agile delivery across a rapidly scaling organization.
  • Improved delivery consistency through technical governance, mentoring, and cross-team problem-solving.

Cofounder & Mobility Services Head

VASPP Technologies

01/2013 - 03/2015Bengaluru, India
  • Co-founded an enterprise mobility and SAP consulting company serving SAP AG, the Qatar Government, and other enterprise customers.
  • Led and mentored a 21-person organization delivering mobile-first and SAP Fiori solutions, including HCM workflows for the Qatar Ministry.
  • Built a culture of product innovation recognized through two global application challenges.

Lead Engineer (Enterprise Mobility)

Innominds

08/2010 - 01/2013Hyderabad, India
  • Led R&D and solution engineering for Sybase Unwired Platform and SAP Mobile Platform, designing scalable enterprise mobility architectures.
  • Designed offline, push-synchronization, and role-based mobile strategies for SAP logistics, HR, and field-service workflows.
  • Partnered with SAP product and pre-sales teams on solution blueprints, feasibility studies, client architecture reviews, and early SAP Fiori and SAPUI5 evaluation.

Application Systems Developer/Designer

MoadBus Inc

01/2009 - 07/2010Paramaribo, Suriname & Hyderabad, India
  • Designed and developed the complete J2ME mobile application suite for a multi-market transportation platform.

Module Lead and Software Engineer

Wipro Technologies, Innominds, Aurona Technologies

08/2004 - 01/2009Oulu, Finland & Hyderabad, India
  • Led a four-person team delivering Nokia order-management solutions using Scrum across Finland and India.
  • Built mobile applications using SMS, MMS, NFC payments, and web APIs, and provided test-automation expertise at the Texas Instruments Bangalore ODC.
  • Delivered commercial mobile games for publishers including Namco, THQ, MTV, and GameHouse.

PROJECTS

Tonik Bank Application

06/2021 - 02/2024Location

Tonik is transforming banking in Southeast Asia, targeting $140B retail deposits and $100B lending in the Philippines. We offer a simple, digital-only bank for both existing and 70% unbanked Filipinos.

  • Increased user Lifetime Value by {35%} by implementing targeted engagement and retargeting User Engagement Journeys.
  • Oversaw the deployment of multiple successful loan products keeping quality and efficiency high.
  • Core member of System design review committee.
  • Setup metrics and measures to gauge efficiency of teams.
  • API Security Team coordination.

Wave Agent & Wave Pay

03/2020 - 04/2021Yangon

WaveMoney, Myanmar's largest wallet app, enables public money transfers anywhere. Wave Agent app allows money withdrawals and OTC transfers. Services include withdrawals, transfers, and bill payments.

  • Successfully set up best practices for Agile.
  • Coordinated approx 18 new feature deployments in 14 months.
  • Part of System architecture review committee.
  • Managed a team of 15 - Mobile + Backend API team.

QC SIP VR project

10/2019 - 03/2020Location

Qualcomm's VR game streaming app streams games from engines like Steam to 5G HMDs, connecting to cloud VMs. Utilized Drachtio SIP for HMD-game engine calls. Node.js plugin dispatches calls to available VMs. Data on VMs, HMDs, and calls is displayed in-browser. Streams start/stop with call.

  • Successfully coordinated deployment of solution on in-House 5G network of QC.