Abhijith Gopakumar
Senior Cloud Engineer at QuesTek Innovations LLC
Chicago, Illinois, United States
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Top SchoolAbhijith Gopakumar is a Senior Cloud Engineer based in Chicago with 8 years of professional experience and over a decade of software development expertise in Python, C++, SQL, and Go. He specializes in cloud IaaS/PaaS/SaaS, API and backend development, cybersecurity, and SaaS compliance (ISO27001, SOC2), bringing a "security first, customer always" mindset to production systems. At Northwestern he led the migration and modernization of one of the largest crystalline materials databases (OQMD) to Google Cloud, implementing Kubernetes, Redis, Cloud SQL, and 24/7 monitoring—work that reflects both deep research roots and operational rigor. Currently at QuesTek Innovations, he focuses on building secure, scalable cloud platforms and backend services, leveraging his PhD training in materials informatics to tackle complex, data-driven problems. Notably, he combines academic research experience with hands-on cloud engineering, making him adept at turning sophisticated scientific workloads into robust, compliant production systems.
8 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Technology - BTech, Engineering Physics, Bachelor of Technology - BTech, Engineering Physics at Indian Institute of Technology, GuwahatiDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Materials Science and Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Materials Science and Engineering at Northwestern University
English, Malayalam, Hindi
Github Skills (35)
fenics10
quantum-mechanics10
dft10
random-walk10
simulations10
materials-informatics10
computational-materials-science10
density-functional-theory9
reserved9
science9
numba9
api8
openapi7
python7
specification6
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
tachyontraveler/magpie_workflow
May 2019 - Nov 2021
Contributions:5 pushes in 2 years 6 months
tachyontraveler/qmpy_rest
May 2019 - Sep 2019
Contributions:43 pushes in 4 months
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