Gokul Murali
Lead Software Engineer at Freshworks
Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India
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Top SchoolGokul Murali is a Lead Software Engineer based in Chennai with a decade of experience building and scaling web applications, primarily focused on Ruby on Rails. He progressed from trainee roles to leadership across Mallow Technologies, Poshmark, and now Freshworks, demonstrating steady growth in technical ownership and team mentoring. At Poshmark he spent multiple years advancing through senior engineering levels, bringing product-driven engineering sensibilities to consumer-facing platforms. Comfortable balancing hands-on coding with architectural decision-making, he has deep Rails expertise paired with practical leadership in distributed team contexts. Notably, his career shows a pattern of long-tenure impact at each employer, suggesting strong delivery consistency and team trust. He holds a Bachelor’s in Computer Science and blends solid academic foundations with a pragmatic, ship-first engineering approach.
10 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science and Engineering, Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science and Engineering at Shanmugha Arts, Science, Technology and Research AcademyHigh School, Computer Science, 85%, High School, Computer Science, 85% at Oriental Higher Secondary School, Kumbakonam
Stackoverflow
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26questions
ruby-on-rails
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Github Skills (62)
devise10
warden10
rails-api10
authentication10
rails10
rails-gem10
ruby10
jwt-authentication10
api10
jwt10
api-auth10
api-authentication10
spree10
rails-authentication10
lighthouse9
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
Gokul595/postsocially
Jan 2016 - Oct 2019
Contributions:4 PRs, 2 pushes, 3 branches in 3 years 10 months
Gokul595/api_guard
Mar 2018 - Mar 2022
JWT authentication solution for Rails APIs
Contributions:2 reviews, 205 commits, 56 PRs in 4 years 1 month
ruby-on-railsapiruby-jwtrails-apirails
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