Summary
Gokul Prabhu is a Senior Software Development Engineer with 11 years of experience building reliable backend systems and operationally resilient infrastructure, currently at Amazon’s FireTV organization. He has led large-scale migrations to AWS, ensured peak readiness for services serving millions of customers, and driven CI/CD and infra improvements that supported high-throughput microservices. Previously at Freshworks and Zoho, he focused on backend performance, multithreaded data processing, and automation reliability while mentoring peers and owning release processes. Equally comfortable with product-facing design work, he experiments with end-to-end UX and customer-driven side projects, reflecting a strong interest in psychology and user behavior. Based in Chennai, he blends engineering rigor with a designer’s empathy, often surfacing non-obvious operational improvements that boost service SLAs.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering (BE) Electrical Electronics and Communications Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering (BE) Electrical Electronics and Communications Engineering at College of Engineering, Guindy
12th Computer Science, 12th Computer Science at Shree Mahaa Higher Secondary School