Krishna Priya Vasireddy
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Engineering Director, Data & AI SaaS Platforms, Enterprise AI Enablement, Global Delivery

Krishna Priya Vasireddy

Engineering leader with 23+ years building and scaling enterprise data platforms, analytics engineering, governance and AI capabilities.

šŸ“ Hyderabad, India  ā€¢  āœ‰ļø krishnapriyav@gmail.com  ā€¢  šŸ“± +91 99896 16660

Krishna Priya Vasireddy
23+

Years building data platforms and AI capabilities

140+

Engineers and managers led across India and US sites

$3.2M+

Annual cloud infrastructure and software budget owned

4

Enterprise programs delivered with measured business ROI

Core competencies and tools.

Leadership

  • Engineering leadership and GCC org scaling
  • Global distributed teams
  • Functional & Budget ownership ($3M+)
  • Building teams and capabilities from scratch
  • Cross-functional alignment

Data Platforms

  • Data strategy & architectures
  • SaaS analytics and telemetry
  • Data Platform Engineering & Operations
  • Data governance, quality and cataloging
  • Enterprise Search (Coveo, RAG)
  • Master Data Management (MDM)

Enterprise AI

  • Production GenAI and RAG
  • Model Context Protocol (MCP)
  • Talk-to-data SLMs
  • AI evaluation and guardrails
  • Multi-agent workflows (CrewAI)
  • AI governance

Delivery & Practice

  • Offshore & Global delivery setup
  • Agile and SAFe delivery
  • Community of practice
  • Vendor management
  • Process improvement
Data & analytics
SnowflakeDatabricksSQL ServerAzure Synapse AtlanAlationMonte CarlodbtInformatica PowerCenter,MDM,IDQFivetranAzure Data FactoryTableauPower BIApache Airflow
GenAI & Search
ClaudeSnowflake CortexGitLab Duo Agent PlatformGitHub CopilotCursorCoveoGlean
Cloud & DevOps
AzureGoogle CloudGitLabGitHubAzure DevOpsAzure AI Studio

Platforms that changed how the business works.

Four programs across search, governance and platform modernization. Each one moved from strategy to production, with a number to show for it.

F5

AI search for customer support

CHALLENGE
Support engineers spent excessive time navigating multiple disconnected knowledge bases, slowing down case resolution.
SOLUTION
Led the RAG-based semantic search implementation for Customer Support, unifying documentation, telemetry, and past case resolutions.
RESULT 30% increase in case deflection, with faster time to resolution across global support teams.
GitLab

Enterprise data governance & catalog

CHALLENGE
Lack of centralized data discovery and metadata visibility across disparate enterprise data assets.
SOLUTION
Led evaluation and deployment of Atlan data catalog (ingesting 10K+ data assets, 1,000+ terms) and Monte Carlo lifecycle observability.
RESULT Saved ~170 hours/month in data discovery, deprecated $20K in unused assets, and scaled to 40+ daily active users in 3 quarters.
F5

Snowflake cloud warehouse migration

CHALLENGE
Legacy SQL Server database hit performance bounds under growing analytical query volumes.
SOLUTION
Directed end-to-end SQL Server to Snowflake migration across architecture, data migration, validation, and production cutover.
RESULT 99.9% platform availability achieved alongside significant annual operational cost savings.
GitLab / F5

Customer 360 & MDM Consolidation

CHALLENGE
Customer data fragmented across 11 disparate internal systems with heavy record duplication.
SOLUTION
Initiated Master Data Management program consolidating contact data and establishing automated telemetry analytics.
RESULT Improved data quality across ~11M contacts while removing 80%+ duplicate records.

Demonstrated Excellence

Build capability in-house

Stand up teams and practices from scratch, so the organization owns what it depends on.

Governance by design

Build quality, lineage and policy into data and AI solutions from the start, not as an audit afterwards.

Pilot to production

Judge AI by adoption inside real workflows, not by the demo.

Measure the outcome

Tie every platform to hours saved, cost removed or customers helped.

Leadership Style

Context-Based

When teams and leaders are new I'm hands on setting clear expectations and frequent feedback. With experienced team and leaders I focus on outcomes.

Strategy aligned to business outcomes and organizational impact

Working with cross functional teams and aligning technology strategy with business outcomes and organizational impact.

Lead with influence not authority

With both leaders and team members, my approach is to lead with influence and collaboration rather than authority.

Focus on outcomes and impact

I’m driven by outcomes and impact. I ensure that every initiative I lead is tied to measurable results, whether it's cost savings, increased efficiency, or improved customer satisfaction.

23+ years across SaaS, enterprise technology and IT services.

From .NET developer to directing a 140+ person engineering site, with data at the center of every role.

May 2024 – Jun 2026 Hyderabad

Director, Enterprise Data

GitLab Inc., the AI-powered DevSecOps platform. Led the Data Governance and Quality enterprise program across catalog, observability, master data, security and AI readiness.

  • Drove AI enablement on enterprise data: rolled out MCPs across data platforms with defined guidelines for AI-assisted data discovery and analysis, defined the AI governance and data-readiness strategy, and built governance by design into talk-to-data GenAI solutions.
  • Led evaluation and implementation of Atlan as the enterprise data catalog, ingesting 10K+ data assets and 1,000+ glossary terms, saving ~170 hours/month in data discovery and $20K through data-asset deprecation within three quarters, with 40+ daily active users. Set data-lifecycle monitoring standards on Monte Carlo.
  • Initiated a Master Data Management program consolidating contact data from 11 disparate systems and improving data quality across ~11M contacts.
  • Formed and led the Data Steering Committee and Data Stewardship Council, advancing governance maturity from "Defined" to "Managed" and closing security policy gaps through data retention, protection and lifecycle frameworks.
Jul 2018 – May 2024 Hyderabad

Director, Engineering

F5, Inc., multi-cloud application security and delivery. Data & Analytics Engineering, Data Insights and Search.

  • Manager, Jul 2018
  • Sr. Manager, Oct 2019
  • Director, Jul 2021
  • Directed the India site for the department, overseeing 140+ employees and a direct team of 36 across the US, Mexico and Hyderabad, managing a $3.2M annual budget, and owning the Enterprise Data and Enterprise Search strategy, roadmap and end-to-end engineering processes.
  • Led the SQL Server to Snowflake migration across architecture, data migration, validation and production cutover, lifting platform availability to 99.9% with significant operational cost savings.
  • Built an in-house Enterprise Search practice, replacing Google Search Appliance with Coveo across 6+ internal and external web applications and saving $120K.
  • Led the RAG-based semantic search implementation for Customer Support, increasing case deflection by 30%.
  • Delivered Customer 360 on MDM, unifying the customer view, integrating product telemetry for adoption analytics, and enabling a customer-data cleanup that removed 80%+ duplicates.
  • Engineered usage analytics for F5's flexible consumption model across legacy and new systems, feeding churn prediction, and partnered with Finance on auditable SaaS subscription metrics.
  • Scaled Hyderabad technology services teams from 3 to 30+ across ServiceNow, Workday, Cornerstone and integrations, and launched the Data Science Community of Practice.
Mar 2016 – Jul 2018 Hyderabad

Delivery Manager, Data Engineering and Data Science

Eastman Chemical

  • Set up full-fledged offshore delivery with multiple agile teams for data engineering and data science, providing site leadership for software development and process improvement.
  • Delivered predictive analytics including customer churn prediction, call-transcript analytics and railcar usage forecasting, alongside supply chain, pricing, service management and sales reporting on Einstein Analytics.
Nov 2005 – Mar 2016 Hyderabad

Associate Manager

Accenture Services

  • Led one of the largest BI teams supporting Microsoft Operations' commercial and commerce business, modernizing data platforms for self-service reporting and high-speed processing of large datasets.
  • Built multi-million partner payment reporting across global teams and regional operations centers in APAC, EMEA and the Americas, while owning RFP responses, resource planning, billability and program execution.
Sep 2003 – Nov 2005 Hyderabad

Software Engineer

Satyam Computer Services

  • Selected as one of 60 from ~1,900 off-campus candidates. Worked as a software developer on .NET projects.

Still building with AI, hands on.

Side projects I built myself, alongside the AI programs I led at work.

Multi-agent stock trading workflow

Six specialised agents screen NSE stocks and produce BUY, SELL and HOLD recommendations with entry zones, stop-losses and targets, built on CrewAI.

CrewAIMulti-agentPython

Small language model for Text-to-SQL

A small language model that turns plain-language questions into SQL, for talk-to-data use cases.

SLMText-to-SQLTalk-to-data

Financial advisor evaluator

Runs synthetic customer conversations against an AI financial adviser and scores policy breaches, hallucinations and missed refusals, with every flag citing a versioned rule.

LLM evaluationAI governanceHallucination checks

AI I've taken to production at work

  • RAG-based semantic search for Customer Support at F5, lifting case deflection by 30%.
  • MCPs rolled out across data platforms at GitLab, with guidelines for AI-assisted discovery and analysis.
  • Talk-to-data GenAI use cases with governance built in by design.

Building the community around data and AI.

Teaching, evaluating and connecting leaders beyond my day job.

  • Founder, The AI Cohort A community of builders using AI.
  • Telangana AI Mission (T-AIM) Evaluator for the AI start-up challenge, and helped translate the AI for All book from English to Telugu.
  • Learning Facilitator, BITS Pilani WILP Volunteering to teach in the work-integrated learning programme.
  • Industry forums Active participant in NASSCOM, Zinnov and HYSEA forums, collaborating with external talent and leaders.
  • Member communities Lean In, Women in Data and Data Leaders.

Recognition

  • LeadF5 award, F5
  • Accenture Celebrates Excellence Award

Certifications

  • Certified ScrumMaster, Scrum Alliance
  • SAFe Agilist and SAFe Certified Leader
  • MCPDEA and MS-TS BI
  • ASDA program at Accenture, in collaboration with MIT
  • Business Analytics, EduPristine

Education

Chief Digital and AI Officer Program Indian School of Business, Hyderabad, 2024
M.Tech, Data Science Engineering BITS Pilani, Work Integrated Learning Programmes
B.Tech, Electronics and Communication Engineering Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University, Hyderabad, 1999–2003

Let's turn data ambition into production AI.

Interested in collaborating, hiring, or talking about data platforms and enterprise AI? I'd love to hear from you.