Curriculum Vitae
Lakshmi Priya Gopalsamy
Senior Engineering Manager, Target · Resilient platforms. Resilient teams.
Technology leader and software engineer with 20+ years building enterprise platforms that hold up under pressure — and teams that do the same. My work sits at the intersection of enterprise architecture, distributed systems, data infrastructure, and AI-driven operations.
Minneapolis · St. Paul, Minnesota
Professional experience
- Aug 2025 – Present
Senior Engineering Manager — Finance Product & Services
Target
Lead engineering for enterprise B2B digital commerce and real-time bank authorization platforms supporting high-volume, business-critical transactions — corporate gift card ordering, account management, and Target Debit Card decisioning across digital and in-store. Partner with product, architecture, security, risk, and business to shape strategy, while focusing on reliability, observability, fraud prevention, and engineering excellence.
- Dec 2023 – Jul 2025
Senior Engineering Manager — Data Engineering
Target
Led two engineering teams in Target's Data Platform organization, improving platform reliability, usability, and operational efficiency at enterprise scale. Drove Spark 3 migration, asset lifecycle management, and service migration to Target Application Platform. Served as Peak Captain, coordinating readiness and platform stability during Target's highest-traffic retail periods.
- Jun 2020 – Dec 2023
Senior Engineering Manager — Production Engineering
Target
Led teams building service management and operational tooling for incident management, production change visibility, and engineering coordination — integrated with Slack, Zoom, GitHub, Kafka, and ServiceNow. Earlier in the role, built developer experience and operational visibility platforms surfacing real-time status, SLOs, and service relationships across Target's technology ecosystem.
- Dec 2017 – Jun 2020
Engineering Manager / Digital Engineer II
Best Buy
Built and led the engineering organization for the Product Data Management platform — the central entry point for vendor-provided product information. Owned platform architecture, API development, supplier integration, and continuous delivery improvements, while shaping team culture and engineering discipline from the ground up.
- Aug 2016 – Dec 2017
Technical Lead
Wells Fargo
Led major initiatives during a large-scale migration from GE to Wells Fargo, managing software development end to end while staying hands-on in implementation, mentoring, release execution, and production support. Built secure user account management with mutual authentication in a highly regulated environment.
- Oct 2015 – Aug 2016
Technical Lead
Comcast
Technical lead in an Agile environment for API development, batch solutions, and enterprise integrations supporting technician operations and equipment health monitoring. Defined designs, facilitated Scrum, and established CI workflows that improved delivery speed.
- Oct 2013 – Sep 2015
Technical Lead
Virtusa / Truven Health Analytics
Led onsite-offshore teams delivering healthcare data transformation solutions, including HL7-to-JSON conversion and bulk message processing. Owned technical design, delivery coordination, and Scrum leadership in a domain where data quality and interoperability are critical.
- Sep 2008 – Oct 2013
Technical Lead
HCL Technologies / Cisco
Enterprise application development and technical design for device operations and administrative workflows — requirement analysis, high-level design, web functionality, and build and dependency configuration across a large technical environment.
- Jul 2006 – May 2008
Software Developer
Indorion Networks
Started my career across the full software development lifecycle, building a foundation in enterprise application development, implementation, and delivery.
Education
Master of Business Administration
Colorado State University
In progress
M.E., Applied Electronics
Sathyabama University, Chennai
B.E., Electronics and Communication
Anna University, Chennai
Certifications & executive education
Women in Leadership
Yale School of Management
Executive education in strategic leadership, organizational influence, and executive decision-making.
Data Analytics Certification
Cornell University
Advanced data analytics and applied statistics.
ACM Peer Review Certification
Association for Computing Machinery
Peer review methodology and research quality evaluation.
ACE Leadership Program
Minnesota Technology Association
Competitive leadership development for senior technology professionals.
Corporate Leadership Foundations
Best Buy
Enterprise leadership and organizational effectiveness.
Introduction to AI
Machine learning concepts, applied AI, and responsible AI practices.
Sun Certification — Java
Sun Microsystems
Core Java development certification.
Embedded Systems
Accel IT Academy
Low-level systems programming and hardware simulation.
Memberships & honors
Sigma Xi — Full Member
The Scientific Research Honor Society
One of the world's oldest and most prestigious scientific research honor societies, founded in 1886 at Cornell University. Membership recognizes demonstrated excellence in scientific research and original contribution to the advancement of knowledge — members include over 200 Nobel Prize winners.
IEEE Senior Member
Highest grade of IEEE membership
Fewer than 10% of IEEE's 400,000+ members attain Senior Member grade — it requires demonstrated engineering achievement over at least 10 years.
IEEE Women in Engineering
Member · Twin Cities Affinity Group Secretary
Global network dedicated to advancing women in engineering and technology.
IEEE Computer Society Member
Software Engineering Technical Community
The world's leading computing professional society for researchers and practitioners.
ACM Professional Member
Certified Peer Reviewer
Association for Computing Machinery — the world's largest educational and scientific computing society.
Hackathon Raptors Fellow
Fellow Member
Fellow-level recognition awarded for expertise, mentorship, and sustained contribution to innovation-driven technology challenges and engineering excellence.
IICSPA Fellow Member
Cybersecurity & Enterprise Architecture
A prestigious fellowship awarded to professionals recognized for sustained excellence in cybersecurity, information security, and enterprise architecture.
Awards & appreciations
30 Exceptional Women in Engineering Leadership — IWED 2026
Selected by WomenTech Network as one of 30 Exceptional Women in Engineering Leadership globally, in recognition of contributions to AI governance, enterprise platform engineering, and technology leadership. Published on International Women in Engineering Day 2026.
Big Data Engineering Excellence
Recognized through two independent technology awards for original contributions to enterprise-scale big data platform engineering.
Community Leadership Recognition — Top Contributor
Recognized by WomenTech Network as a top contributor to Women in Tech collaborative articles, driving knowledge sharing and community advancement in the global technology sector.
Peer review & mentorship
- — Invited expert peer reviewer for ~20 international conferences via Microsoft CMT, across AI and data engineering, distributed systems, and emerging technologies.
- — Invited panel peer reviewer for the MNTech ACE Leadership Program, evaluating leadership development in the tech community.
- — Mentor in the Target Pro Bono Mentorship Program, guiding a startup founder on scaling strategy, enterprise client engagement, and operational maturity.
Speaking & conference presentations
AI-Accelerated Delivery Needs Refactoring: The CATS Guardrails Framework
PlatformCon 2026
June 22–24, 2026 · International · Accepted
Building Reliable LLM Systems: Managing Decision Latency and Cognitive Load in the AI Era
Conf42 LLMs 2026
June 18, 2026 · International · Accepted
Scaling Security with Guardrails and Decision Flow
SecretCon 4 2026
June 4, 2026 · International · Accepted
Scaling Reliability and Speed in Regulated Enterprises Through Organizational APIs, Guardrails, and Decision Flow
WomenTech Global
May 13, 2026 · International · Accepted
Community leadership
- — Organizer — ACM-IEEE Twin Cities Meetup
- — Secretary — IEEE WIE Twin Cities Affinity Group & Ambassador
- — Mentor · Judge — Target Women in Science & Technology
- — Judge — MN Technology Association ACE Leadership Program
- — Sponsor & Leader — Techquity Probono Project
- — Owner & Leader — Twin Cities WomenTech Circle