Akash Gopalakrishnan
Senior Software Engineer at Red Hat
Raleigh, North Carolina, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAkash Gopalakrishnan is a Senior Software Engineer with six years of hands-on experience building and operating cloud-native systems, specializing in OpenShift, SRE/DevOps practices, and computer networking. He progressed through multiple roles at Red Hat where he created a Go-based CLI for OpenShift Dedicated, monitored and debugged CI/CD pipelines using Prow/TestGrid, and routinely queried Prometheus and Grafana to improve release gating and test coverage. Earlier work at Cognizant gave him full-stack exposure—Angular front-ends, C# back-ends, and Azure DevOps—anchoring his ability to bridge development and operational concerns. He holds a master’s in Computer Systems Networking and Telecommunications from NC State and brings a practical telecom background from an industrial traineeship in fiber and GSM systems. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic engineer who turns monitoring data into actionable automation, and who consistently aims to align personal growth with organizational goals.
5 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree Computer Systems Networking and Telecommunications, Master's degree Computer Systems Networking and Telecommunications at North Carolina State UniversityBachelor of Technology (B.Tech.) Electronics and Communications Engineering, Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.) Electronics and Communications Engineering at SRM IST ChennaiHigher Secondary General ScienceMathematics and Computer Science, Higher Secondary General ScienceMathematics and Computer Science at Greets Public School
English, Malayalam, Tamil, Hindi, French
Github Skills (8)
dedicated10
e2e-test10
e2e9
openshift9
continuous-deployment9
tooling9
kubernetes8
artifacts8
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
agopala95/osde2e
Jun 2020 - Apr 2021
Repository of e2e test plumbing for OpenShift Dedicated
Contributions:83 pushes, 7 branches in 10 months
dedicatedopenshiftopenshift-dedicatedplumbingkubernetes
agopala95/cp4na
May 2022 - Jun 2023
repo for CP4NA associated artifacts
Contributions:40 pushes, 30 branches in 1 year 1 month
cp4naartifacts
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