CV | Gautam Yadav

Executive Summary

Builder, enabler, and technology statesman with 17+ years of experience turning ambitious ideas into enduring institutions.

Gautam is known for creating clarity in ambiguity, developing leaders, and aligning people, technology, and operating discipline behind a shared purpose. Currently Board Member at Innogent Technologies after building the company as Founder and CEO; most recently led Vena and its global AI initiatives through April 2026. A trusted contributor to industry and government forums, he brings a founder's ownership, a CTO's technical judgment, and an enterprise leader's ability to build high performing global organizations.

Core Domains

Technology Workforce & Enterprise Leadership
India organization build outTechnical talent assessmentRole calibrationHiring architectureWorkforce planningSquad compositionOnboardingPerformanceSuccession
GCC & Offshore Operating Models
Location strategyCapability center scale upDistributed team integrationEOR, staffing, and partner governanceWorkforce stabilityCross border stakeholder alignment
Resource Deployment & Governance
Utilization and bench visibilityStaffing reviewsRedeploymentDelivery risk reportingScorecardsSLA/OKR roll upsQBRsPerformance checkpoints
Capability & Leadership Development
Engineering leadership benchesRole and level matricesTechnical coachingLearning pathsQuality standardsCultures of accountability and ownership
Enterprise AI, SaaS & Product
Applied AIMulti tenant SaaSCloud and data platformsDevSecOpsEnterprise architectureReliabilitySecurityCross functional agile delivery

Career Timeline

Timeline

200820122016202020242026

Vena Solutions

Feb 2024 to Apr 2026

Head of Vena India & Global AI Leader

Established Vena India from zero and scaled it to 100+ professionals across Product, Engineering, RevOps, Marketing, and Support, making it one of Madhya Pradesh’s first three government certified GCCs.
Built the India GCC into a strategic extension of the global organization, with 60% of technology operations run from India, supporting Vena’s growth beyond 2,000 customers and US$150M ARR.
Created a country level talent architecture spanning role calibration, technical assessments, hiring scorecards, onboarding, performance checkpoints, leadership development, and succession, strengthening ownership and collaboration between India teams and global leaders.
Established staffing, utilization, and capability reviews across global workstreams, creating visibility into deployment status, critical skill gaps, workforce health, and delivery risks.
Served as part of Vena Innovation Group (VIG) and, together with Vena AI Labs, launched enterprise AI and automation initiatives that improved employee productivity by 30% across business and technology functions.
Instituted an executive operating rhythm across scorecards, SLA/OKR roll ups, QBRs, performance reviews, risk escalation, and global stakeholder forums, supported by controls for secure delivery, compliance readiness, business continuity, and vendor oversight.

Innogent Technologies

CEO: Jan 2016 to Feb 2024 · Board: Feb 2024 to Apr 2026

Board Member | Chief Executive Officer

Conceived and built Innogent from the ground up into a 100+ engineer product and platform organization, serving 50+ global clients from seed and Series B companies to established enterprises.
Created engineering capability across cloud native SaaS, distributed systems, data platforms, APIs, DevOps, quality engineering, security, and production operations.
Designed a portfolio wide delivery operating model spanning technical discovery, architecture governance, estimation, squad composition, SDLC controls, release management, SLAs, OKRs, and QBRs, bringing structure and predictability to concurrent client and product workstreams.
Built the technical talent system across calibrated scorecards, engineering assessments, hiring funnels, role and level matrices, onboarding, performance management, learning paths, leadership benches, and succession planning, developing managers and technical leads from within.
Established allocation, utilization, and capacity governance to balance client priorities, skill alignment, redeployment, and bench exposure.
Acted as a strategic technology advisor to founders and enterprise executives, translating business models into scalable architectures, delivery roadmaps, and multidisciplinary teams; also designed operational systems spanning payroll automation, process optimization, and compliance tracking.
Owned P&L stewardship, unit economics, pricing, cost controls, and delivery risk governance to support sustainable growth, strong retention, and repeat business.

OnPlan

Dec 2017 to Sep 2023

Chief Technology Officer

Built a world class enterprise FP&A platform from the ground up and led the complete technology function across product architecture, engineering, cloud infrastructure, data, security, quality, and release operations.
Scaled technology to 100+ professionals and built the hiring, squad, performance, and engineering management systems required to onboard and support 150+ enterprise customers.
Designed a secure multi tenant SaaS architecture and modernized the platform across AWS and GCP, including BigQuery and DBT pipelines, while strengthening access controls, environment isolation, secure SDLC checkpoints, and enterprise compliance readiness.
Established CI/CD, observability, release governance, and engineering quality practices that increased deployment frequency and reduced operational risk.
Improved reporting performance, data freshness, and pipeline resilience while introducing cloud cost and capacity controls.
Partnered with Product, Customer Success, and executive leadership across time zones to translate finance team needs into secure releases, enterprise readiness, customer onboarding, and a disciplined product roadmap, contributing to OnPlan’s Series A raise.

ClearTrail · WM Logistics · Capgemini · Nimish Solutions

Jul 2008 to Jan 2016

Engineering / Technology Leadership

Built enterprise systems using Java/Spring, API first architectures, and secure integrations across complex operational environments.
Delivered high volume streaming, analytics, search, and data platforms using Kafka, Storm, Spark, Hadoop, Elasticsearch, and related distributed technologies.
Led production operations and logistics optimization programs spanning cluster health, route and network planning, and planned versus actual analytics.

Signature Impact & Industry Leadership

Established Vena India from the ground up, scaling it to 100+ professionals and enabling India to run 60% of technology operations; helped support growth beyond 2,000 customers and US$150M ARR.
Founded and scaled Innogent Technologies to 100+ engineers and 50+ global clients, building enduring product engineering partnerships across startup and enterprise environments.
Built OnPlan’s enterprise FP&A platform, scaled technology to 100+ professionals, enabled 150+ enterprise customers, and supported the Series A raise.
Led the GCC Roundtable at Tech Growth Conclave 2.0 and 3.0, organized by the Government of Madhya Pradesh.
Participated in Government of Madhya Pradesh panels focused on GCC development, ecosystem enablement, and artificial intelligence.
Regular technology and leadership speaker, moderator, and panelist across government and private sector platforms, including Google Developer communities, IIM Indore, and IIT Indore.
Served as a jury member for the National Level Ujjain Mahakumbh Hackathon and Smart India Hackathon 2025.