Lakshmi Priya Gopalsamy

Enterprise Engineering Leader . 20+ Years

Building Platforms That Scale Teams and Systems

Engineering leader in enterprise platform engineering and engineering leadership — distributed systems, large-scale data infrastructure, and AI-driven operations for mission-critical enterprise environments.

Engineering Lead – Target | IEEE Senior Member | Sigma Xi Full Member | ACM & SWE Member | Hackathon Raptors & IICSPA Fellow

Quick BackGround

Senior Engineering Manager. MBA candidate. IEEE Senior Member. Published researcher. Here’s the full picture.

Work Experience

Senior Engineering Manager — Target (Aug 2025 – Present)

Leading enterprise B2B Digital Commerce and real-time bank authorization platforms for mission-critical, high-volume transactions. Owns technical roadmaps across payment decisioning, fraud detection, and fault-tolerant distributed systems powering Target’s corporate and proprietary payment capabilities.

Senior Engineering Manager — Target (Dec 2023 – Jul 2025)

Led two high-performing scrum teams within the Data Platform organization, delivering large-scale Hadoop, Spark, and Big Data infrastructure serving 120,000+ daily jobs. Drove platform modernization, security improvements, and a generative AI–powered support bot to improve developer experience at enterprise scale.

Senior Engineering Manager — Target (Jun 2020 – Dec 2023)

Built and led engineering teams delivering production engineering tools — incident management, change tracking, and service reliability platforms — that improved operational visibility and developer experience across Target Technology. Hands-on across Kotlin, Kafka, MongoDB, and cloud-native architectures.

Engineering Manager — Best Buy (Feb 2018 – Jun 2020)

Built the Product Data Management engineering organization from the ground up — hiring, culture, roadmap, and delivery. Led end-to-end development of Best Buy’s vendor product data platform, replacing multiple legacy systems and enabling continuous daily production releases at scale.

Technical Lead — Wells Fargo (Aug 2016 – Dec 2017)

Led 6 major migration projects from GE to Wells Fargo, owning the full software development lifecycle, user account management systems, and L2 production support across weekly and monthly release cycles.

Technical Lead — Comcast (Oct 2015 – Aug 2016)

Designed and implemented APIs for technician job tracking and equipment health scoring, established CI pipelines on Jenkins, and facilitated Agile/Scrum ceremonies for cross-functional delivery teams.

Technical Lead — Virtusa / Truven Health Analytics (Oct 2013 – Sep 2015)

Led onsite-offshore teams as Scrum Master, designing core modules for HL7-to-JSON transformation and bulk message processing APIs in a healthcare data environment.

Technical Lead — HCL Technologies / Cisco (Sep 2008 – Oct 2013)

Managed requirements, high-level design, and hands-on development for Cisco device operations software — five years of full-lifecycle delivery across Java, Spring, and enterprise integration patterns.

Software Developer — Indorion Networks (Jul 2006 – May 2008)

Early-career full-stack development role covering the complete software development lifecycle in Java/J2EE — the foundation for 20+ years of engineering growth.

Education

  • Master of Business Administration – Colorado State University – In Progress
  • Master of Engineering in Applied Electronics – Sathyabama University – Chennai, India
  • Bachelor of Engineering in Electronics and Communication – Anna University – Chennai, India

Certifications & Trainings

Women in Leadership – Yale School of Management

Executive education program from Yale School of Management — consistently ranked among the world’s top 5 business schools. Focused on strategic leadership, organizational influence, and executive decision-making for senior professionals.

Data Analytics Certification – Cornell University

Advanced data analytics and applied statistics program from an Ivy League institution with one of the world’s leading engineering and technology schools.

ACM Peer Review Certification – Association for Computing Machinery

Formal certification in peer review methodology and research quality evaluation from the Association for Computing Machinery.

ACE Leadership Program Minnesota Technology Association

Competitive leadership development program for senior technology professionals selected by the Minnesota Technology Association.

Corporate Leadership Foundations Best Buy

Enterprise leadership and organizational effectiveness certification.

Introduction to AI Google

Foundational AI certification from Google covering machine learning concepts, applied AI, and responsible AI practices.

Sun Certification — Java Development

Foundational AI certification from Google covering machine learning concepts, applied AI, and responsible AI practices.

Embedded Systems — Accel IT Academy

Low-level systems programming and hardware simulation