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title: "Gautam Srikrishna - Director of Innovation in Bengaluru | Tal"
description: "Meet Gautam Srikrishna, Building AI-native companies | 20 Years in Software Engineering | Ex-Engineering Manager at Priceline based in Bengaluru. AI stack includes anthropic apis, claude code, and codex. Explore public work links including github."
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# Gautam Srikrishna on Tal

## Headline

Building AI\-native companies \| 20 Years in Software Engineering \| Ex\-Engineering Manager at Priceline

## About

I design and build AI solutions that transform how B2B companies work\. MY BACKGROUND: 20 years building enterprise software at scale: \- Engineering Manager at Priceline \- Led 12\+ engineers building a B2B flights platform serving Fortune 500 partners \- Project Manager at Mindtree/Cognizant \- Delivered mission\-critical systems for travel and CPG industries I combine deep technical expertise \(architecture, implementation, deployment\) with a focus on business impact\. I don't just build AI solutions \- I build solutions that deliver measurable ROI and scale across enterprise organisations\.

## Location

Bengaluru

## AI stack

anthropic apis

claude code

codex

cursor

mcp

Supabase

## Work experience

Director of Innovation at Spherical Lab, May 2026 \- Present · 3 mo, Bengaluru

AI Architect at Morphing Machines, Sep 2025 \- Present · 11 mo, Bengaluru

Artificial Intelligence Consultant at Full\-time, Dec 2024 \- Aug 2025 · 8 mo, Bengaluru, As an AI Consultant, I helped SMBs leverage AI to boost growth and streamline operations\. \- I designed and built a Women Entrepreneurship platform \(a web app\) that uses AI to provide personalised business guidance for aspiring women entrepreneurs based on their personal and business data\. \- I built a medical education platform \(a web app\) for a healthcare startup that helps medical students strengthen their diagnostic and prescription analysis skills through voice\-based interactions with an AI avatar using Vapi\.ai\.

Career transition at Career Break, May 2024 \- Nov 2024 · 6 mo, Bengaluru, I used these 7 months to plan my career transition, figure out my niche and upskill myself on AI and automation\. \- I experimented with AI and created a Career Clarity Assessment platform that provides personalised AI\-driven career guidance based on a person's strengths, skills and vision\. \- Here is the link: https://clarityai\.gautamsrikrishna\.com/

Book Author at The Wealth Launchpad, Nov 2023 \- Apr 2024 · 5 mo, Bengaluru, This was the time I actively worked on writing, editing, typesetting, publishing, and marketing my first printed book: "The Wealth Launchpad"\. The book was launched by Kashesh Chhabbria, a renowned manifestation and mindset coach on 6th April, 2024\. https://thewealthlaunchpad\.com

Engineering Manager at Priceline, Jul 2022 \- Oct 2023 · 1 y 3 mo, Bengaluru, Mumbai

Project Manager at Mindtree, Feb 2019 \- Jul 2022 · 3 y 5 mo, Bengaluru

Project Manager at Cognizant, Aug 2015 \- Jan 2019 · 3 y 5 mo, Bengaluru

Senior Associate at Cognizant, May 2011 \- Jul 2015 · 4 y 2 mo, Bengaluru

Associate at Cognizant, Nov 2007 \- Apr 2011 · 3 y 5 mo, Bengaluru, Chicago

Programmer Analyst at Cognizant, Apr 2006 \- Oct 2007 · 1 y 6 mo, Bengaluru

Programmer Analyst Trainee at Cognizant, Aug 2005 \- Mar 2006 · 7 mo, Bengaluru

## Education

Bachelor of Engineering \- BE, Mechanical Engineering, B\. M\. S\. College of Engineering

Vijaya College, RV Road, Bangalore\-4

## Public links

- github: https://github\.com/gautamsrikrishna

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