Giridhar Yasa
Technology Strategy Consultant Fractional CTO
India
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Top SchoolGiridhar Yasa is a seasoned technology strategy leader with 17 years of experience shipping scalable products and platforms across e-commerce, fintech, SaaS, and consumer internet sectors. He translates market dynamics, customer needs, and technical constraints into clear product direction, building cloud-native architectures, API ecosystems, and distributed systems at scale. He has led multi-functional teams and multi-year roadmaps, delivering measurable business impact through AI-powered platforms and data-driven decisioning, while driving performance, security, and cloud infrastructure excellence. His track record spans CTO and senior leadership roles at Lendingkart, Opptra, Flipkart, and current advisory work at STUDIO 1681 and DataPelago, where he focuses on technology strategy, org design, and go-to-market enablement. An active open-source contributor and former Debian Developer, he has shipped improvements to projects like axel-download-accelerator and built teams across India and global partners. Based in India, he combines hands-on engineering depth with strategic execution to turn ambitious visions into scalable, auditable outcomes.
18 years of coding experience
24 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Technology, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Bachelor of Technology, Department of Computer Science and Engineering at Indian Institute of Technology, Guwahati
English, Telugu, Hindi, Kannada, French
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Github Skills (19)
http10
ftp10
c1110
c1710
command-line-interface9
acc9
accelerator9
commandline-interface9
acceleration9
commandline9
accelerators9
command-line9
download-manager9
downloadmanager9
cli9
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
axel-download-accelerator/axel
Jan 2008 - Sep 2008
Lightweight CLI download accelerator
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:42 commits, 1 comment in 8 months
Contributions summary:Giridhar primarily focused on improving the stability and functionality of the `axel-download-accelerator/axel` project. Their contributions involved fixing segfaults related to HTTP responses and preventing crashes from long URLs or failing FTP commands. They enhanced the code by incorporating improvements like custom header support and initial large file support. They also made several code improvements by using `strncpy` instead of `strcpy` for safe string copies.
downloaderlightdownload-acceleratorftpaccelerator
Flipkart/ceph
Sep 2016 - Sep 2016
Ceph is a distributed object, block, and file storage platform
Contributions:25 comments in 1 day
zeroblob-storagefile-storageazure-blob-storageceph
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