Gokul N K

Current Address

#764, Gokula, 53rd main, Opp police station, Kumaraswamy Layout, Bangalore- 560078, Karnataka, India

☎ : +91-9739991159
✉ : nkgokul@gmail.com

Extra Curricular Activities

• Was part of the Core Bangalore Drupal Committee, and grew the community to more than 500.
• Conducted Enterprise Training for Verizon India(Chennai) and DataCentre Dynamics(Mumbai)
• Was awarded the most thought provoking panelist amongst Gen Y in Mindtree at PMs conference.

Current Interests and Present Projects

• Building a knowledge tree and a personal knowledge management tool at - http://learningpaths.io
• Building my second brain on www.gokulnk.com using all open source tools(obsidian, Gatsby and React) and an easy/timeless workflow.
• Sharing my learnings on https://medium.com/@gokulnk and https://twitter.com/ gokulnk

Work Experience

Interesting Roles and projects listed in reverse chronological order.

Career Break - Oct 2022 to Now

Engineering Manager at Blinkit - Oct 2019 to Oct 2022

Started with building a new team for CRM and headed the practice as Engineering Manager. Went on to head the CMS tech practice which takes care of core product onboarding and merchant onboarding for the Ecommerce Business at Blinkit.

• This was a legacy service which was still on Ansible. We migrated the service to Kubernetes based CI/CD pipeline that was used across the org.
• Worked on automating the most time consuming processes of business which improved the efficiency by 10x.
• Built lighthouse(MERN stack) which was used across the org for debugging across different services and hence reducing the TAT for fixing the issues.
• Built orchestrator(using temporal) which was used for orchestrating product and merchant onboarding flows which were spread across various different services.
• App for merchant enablement and success.

Across these two practices we are currently managing six services which use the following stacks.

• NodeJS, Express and React.
• Go, Gin, PLSQL.
• Python, Django, PLSQL.
• Redis, Celery, Kafka.

All these services were deployed on AWS and Kubernetes was used for orchestration.

Cofounder at Learning Paths - March 2018 to September 2019

Cofounded Learning Paths. We were not able to raise the funding for our idea and hence we had to shelf the project. I have made this as a side project which I am working on in my free time. I still believe in the potential of this idea. It is currently used by 800+ people.

Our goal was to map global knowledge by helping individuals discover their own learning paths.

http://learningpaths.io

Tech Stack : Mongo, Express, React and NodeJS stack with Elastic Search and Zabbix for monitoring. Frontend Portal, Chrome extension and REACT Native App

Delivery head at AZRI Solutions - March 2011 to January 2018

Technologies : Angular, Javascript, D3JS, Drupal, Moodle, Magento.

Projects : World Bank Data and Visualisation projects, Learning Portals for ISB and IIMS, Intranets for various fortune 500 companies.

Programmer Analyst at Mindtree - Jan 2009 to October 2010

Technologies : Java, Spring, Hibernate, MySQL.

Projects : HR portal for Honeywell, R&D project for device monitoring using SNMP protocol

Academic Performance

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