Summary
Gokulnath Avanashilingam is a Product Owner and embedded Linux engineer with 13 years of hands-on experience and over 17 years of domain expertise in automotive infotainment and platform software. Currently leading product work at CARIAD, he previously architected and delivered CI/CD, build optimization and Android Automotive solutions at Bosch, driving Yocto, Android builds and cloud-based DevOps for rCar and Qualcomm platforms. He combines deep low-level skills—kernel, bootloaders, device drivers and Yocto/OpenEmbedded—with delivery leadership, having planned schedules and mentored teams of eight while automating complex delivery chains. Based in Ingolstadt, he’s equally comfortable in build-system performance tuning and practical test automation, and has a track record of integrating fixes upstream with kernel suppliers to stabilize product branches. Notably, his background spans both chipset bring-up and cloud CI/CD, giving him a rare ability to bridge silicon, system software and product delivery.
13 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
SSLC HSC Maths and Biology, SSLC HSC Maths and Biology at Kadri Mills Higher Secondary School
BE Electronics and Communication, BE Electronics and Communication at Sri Ramakrishna Institute of Technology, Anna University, Chennai
English, Tamil, German