Lakshmi Priya Gopalsamy is a senior engineering leader with deep expertise in full-stack systems, distributed platforms, and enterprise technology. She is known for translating complex technical challenges into scalable, reliable solutions while building inclusive, high-trust engineering cultures. Her leadership approach centers on clarity, collaboration, and resilience, particularly in environments marked by ambiguity and rapid change.
In her current role as a Senior Engineering Manager at Target, Lakshmi leads cross-functional teams responsible for mission-critical digital commerce, data, and production engineering platforms. Her work spans large-scale enterprise systems supporting business-to-business commerce, real-time payment authorization, data platforms, and developer experience tooling. She partners closely with product, architecture, security, and business stakeholders to align technical strategy with long-term organizational goals, while maintaining a strong focus on reliability, security, and operational excellence.
Lakshmi has extensive experience designing and governing distributed systems, event-driven architectures, and cloud native platforms. She has led modernization initiatives, platform migrations, and architectural re-designs that improve system resilience, observability, and developer productivity. Alongside technical strategy, she is deeply invested in mentoring engineers, developing leaders, and fostering environments where teams can thrive, take ownership, and continuously improve.
Before Target, Lakshmi held engineering leadership roles at Best Buy, where she built and scaled engineering organizations and led the development of enterprise product data platforms. Earlier in her career, she served as a technical lead across multiple industries, including financial services, telecommunications, healthcare analytics, and enterprise software, gaining a broad perspective on building reliable systems at scale.
Beyond her professional roles, Lakshmi is an active mentor, judge, and volunteer within the technology community. She supports STEM education, women in technology initiatives, small business technology programs, and leadership development efforts. Through her speaking engagements, Lakshmi shares practical insights on engineering leadership, platform reliability, inclusive team building, and navigating complexity in modern technology organizations.