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Srini Reddi

FRACTIONAL CTO | INTERIM ARCHITECT | AI & MONETIZATION PLATFORMS

About Me

Hands-on technical founder and executive consultant with over 20 years of experience building, scaling, and modernizing high-velocity cloud systems. Specializing in the rapid architectural design of production-grade Generative AI pipelines, agentic workflows, and high-frequency AdTech/MarTech monetization infrastructure. Hired by CEOs, founders, and investors to unblock engineering velocity, resolve architectural gridlock, and design zero-to-one platforms that turn technology into measurable revenue. CORE FRACTIONAL INTERVENTIONS & SERVICES AI & Agentic Systems Architecture: Designing and deploying autonomous workflows, production LLM pipelines, RAG frameworks, and predictive intelligence engines. Monetization & AdTech Turnarounds: Building custom ad servers, real-time bidding engines, and proprietary SDKs to transition platforms off costly third-party dependencies. Platform Modernization & Technical Debt Auditing: Untangling legacy monoliths, migrating to sub-second latency microservices, and executing multi-tenant cloud consolidations. Technical Due Diligence & PE Advisory: Assessing technology stack health, infrastructure scalability, and post-merger integration risk for private equity and venture capital investors.

Jurisdiction

United States

Experience

Seniority LevelExecutive
Years of Experience20+ years
Current StatusActive
Head of EngineeringElectronic Arts
2024 - 2026

Brought in to architect and launch EA’s proprietary advertising platform ecosystem, transforming supply-side monetization and unlocking major revenue streams. Designed and deployed EA's first proprietary AI-driven Programmatic Ad Server from zero-to-one, driving 100% YoY growth in advertising revenue. Engineered agentic workflows for automated creative auditing, slashing manual operational overhead and accelerating delivery pipelines. Architected a core modular blueprint across four pillars including the Ad Server, Data Platform, Ad Portal, and Ads SDK to support global cross-platform portfolio scaling. Introduced modern SRE and DevOps workflows that drastically improved code deployment velocity and infrastructure resilience.

Fractional CTO & Transformation LeadKinesso (IPG Group) | 09/2022 – 06/2023
2022 - 2023

Retained as enterprise technology consultant to execute a high-stakes technology consolidation across three massive global business units. Architected the structural transition of fragmented legacy technology stacks into a unified, multi-tenant cloud infrastructure. Unlocked $10M in incremental revenue and eliminated systemic operational drag by auditing and rationalizing global advertising platforms. Institutionalized "Shift Left" security frameworks and automated compliance workflows, successfully de-risking infrastructure for enterprise clients.

Digital Platform ConsultantServiceNow
2021 - 2022

Engaged to optimize digital growth platforms, MarTech infrastructure, and global audience activation capabilities. Restructured audience targeting data strategy using LiveRamp and Bombora, scaling qualified audience coverage by 40%. Reduced customer acquisition costs, delivering a 38% decrease in overall Cost Per Lead through platform optimization. Integrated real-time customer data platforms with enterprise ad networks to enable dynamic activation and marketing investment returns.

Executive Director, Data & AIDBS Bank
2019 - 2022

Architected and shipped an Agentic customer intelligence platform utilizing LLM-based predictive modeling, generating $125M in incremental ARR. Modernized international data infrastructure and decisioning frameworks to build a high-performance, cloud-native engineering culture.

Senior Director, Core Architecture | Yahoo! | 08/2010 – 08/2018Yahoo
2010 - 2018

Conceptualized and built the "Mobile Moments" advertising product, using a high-frequency, low-latency architecture to grow Mobile ARPDAU by 400%. Re-architected legacy monolithic systems into highly scalable microservices, driving sub-1 second performance at the 99.5th percentile. Modernized global content management and distribution engines across joint business units, stripping out $150M in operational cost.

DEEP FOUNDATIONAL TRACK RECORDPayPal, Ask, Visa, NextCard
1998 - 2010

PayPal: Led technical design and global launch of web-scale airline payment solutions, yielding $265M in year-one revenue. Ask.com: Head of Engineering; built a proprietary in-house advertising platform that transitioned a $60M business entirely away from third-party vendor reliance. Visa: Designed and deployed the foundational Visa Commercial platform, delivering $20M in incremental corporate revenue. NextCard: Early-stage engineering leader; scaled core technology infrastructure through a high-velocity customer acquisition phase and successful IPO.

Education

Masters of Digital ElectronicsCochin University of Science & Technology
1993 - 1995
Degree of Electronics & CommunicationOsmania University
1989 - 1993

Certification

Total Certifications2

AWS Cloud Practitioner

AWS

PMP

PMI

Skills

Core skills10
Interests5
Languages2

Skills

Agentic AI Architecture
AdTech & Monetization
LLM Pipelines & RAG Frameworks
Multi-Tenant Cloud Consolidation
High-Frequency & Low-Latency Systems
High-Frequency & Low-Latency Systems
Distributed Data Systems & MLOps
DevOps, SRE & Platform Reliability
Zero-to-One Product Engineering Strategy
Cross-Functional Executive Leadership

Interests

Distributed Data Systems & Microservices
Agentic AI & Production LLM Workflows
AdTech & MarTech Monetization
DevOps & Site Reliability Engineering
Cloud-Native Platform Modernization

Languages

English
Hindi