About

Girish Koppad is a seasoned product leader with over 22 years of experience in software development, program management, and partner management. As the Vice President of Engineering at Snapdeal, Girish leads the company's engineering efforts to build great products that make everyday life easier for people. Girish has held senior leadership positions at top technology companies such as Samsung, Tivo, Google, and Motorola. At Samsung, he managed a software engineering team of over 180 people and set product development priorities and strategic direction for Samsung Enterprise products & Solutions. He also drove the portfolio transition to a software business model and cloud services. At Tivo, Girish was responsible for product definition, roadmap, and engineering to launch Entertainment Discovery Meta Data Catalog serving 70 countries. Girish excels in creating compelling product vision for new products or revitalizing existing ones and crafting the organization and culture to accomplish it. He is highly adaptive with extensive experience in managing customers/partners globally, working with teams and organizations of many sizes, across diverse areas like wireless infrastructure, mobile, and SaaS-based cloud computing platforms. He is excellent at presenting complex technology solutions to executives and business professionals. Girish holds a Master's degree in Computer Science from Stevens Institute of Technology and a Bachelor's degree in Computer Engineering from the University of Pune. He also attended St. Vincents High School. His tech stack includes senior software engineer, mobile, product manager, software engineer, infra, integration, web, and search. In summary, Girish Koppad is a product leader with a passion for building great products that make everyday life easier for people. He has extensive experience in managing customers/partners globally, creating compelling product vision, and crafting the organization and culture to accomplish it. He is a highly effective communicator and excels at presenting complex technology solutions to executives and business professionals.