Giridhar Yasa
Technology & Strategy Consultant Fractional CTO
India
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Top SchoolGiridhar Yasa is a seasoned technology and product leader with 18 years of experience building and scaling cloud-native platforms, API ecosystems, and full-stack products across e-commerce, fintech, SaaS, and consumer internet. He has repeatedly translated business outcomes into multi-year technology roadmaps and led cross-functional delivery across product, engineering, data, and design, including executive alignment with boards and leadership teams. As a former CTO and principal architect at organisations like Lendingkart and Flipkart, he combines large-scale systems design and web performance/security expertise with hands-on engineering. He also contributes to open source—improving the stability of the well-known axel download-accelerator—reflecting a pragmatic focus on reliability and low-level systems robustness. Currently operating as a fractional CTO and technology strategist, he is known for building high-trust, high-performance teams and delivering measurable impact from AI- and data-powered platforms. An IIT Guwahati-trained engineer, he blends deep systems software roots with product-led strategic vision.
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 (15)
c1710
http10
ftp10
c1110
command-line9
download-manager9
cli9
accelerator9
command-line-interface9
acc9
acceleration9
strings8
lit8
text-manipulation8
multithreading6
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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