Summary
Gokul Subramanian is a Senior Software Engineering Manager based in Cambridge with a decade of experience building and leading teams in SaaS, cloud, data backups, and streaming systems. He combines hands-on architecture and delivery expertise—from founding-engineer duties at a SaaS startup to technical leadership roles at Amazon and Veeam—driving cross-organizational projects that ship quickly and reliably. Notable work includes automating Kafka version ingestion for AWS MSK to a sub-week cadence, a patented IAM integration for stronger security, and designing multi-tenant, multi-region backup control planes. He has a strong track record of reducing operational load through self-healing systems and of improving performance at scale, grounded in an MS in Computer and Information Science and Robotics from UPenn. Pragmatic and data-driven, Gokul blends deep systems knowledge with people leadership to make engineering teams excel.
10 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Technology Mechanical Engineering, Bachelor of Technology Mechanical Engineering at National Institute of Technology Karnataka
Master of Science and Engineering Computer and Information Science and Robotics (2nd major), Master of Science and Engineering Computer and Information Science and Robotics (2nd major) at University of Pennsylvania