Summary
Gokul Kartha is a Software Architect and practical technologist with two decades of engineering experience and a 12-year track record in architecture, product ownership, and technical leadership across automotive and embedded systems. Based in Eindhoven, he has driven OS platform strategy and Kubernetes migration at ASML, designed infotainment and navigation systems for OEMs at Lightyear, HARMAN, and Volkswagen, and co-founded a startup to keep an entrepreneurial edge. He blends hands-on C++, Linux, Python and DevOps tool expertise with product-facing skills—translating roadmaps into CI/CD-enabled deliveries and cross-team integrations. Known for onboarding multicultural teams quickly and maintaining low attrition in competence centers, he also led cloud-enabled PND and mobile innovations earlier in his career. Gokul’s strength is marrying deep embedded systems craftsmanship with pragmatic platform thinking to scale complex, safety- and reliability-sensitive software. His profile reflects both a systems builder’s curiosity and a knack for aligning engineering work to strategic roadmaps.
12 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
M.Sc Computers, M.Sc Computers at Mahatma Gandhi University
B.Sc Physics, B.Sc Physics at Mar Athanasius College
English, Malayalam, Hindi