Gopinath Palaniappan
Senior Technical Program Manager at Google
Ripon, California, United States
Summary
👤
Senior🎓
Top SchoolGopinath Palaniappan is a Senior Technical Program Manager with 11+ years of experience leading complex software and hardware programs across XR, consumer devices, and cloud infrastructure, currently shaping platform software for AR/VR/MR at Google. He has a proven track record launching flagship Pixel devices, managing Nest Wifi and connectivity portfolios, and driving planet-scale observability work such as OpenCensus during his cloud infrastructure tenure. Comfortable bridging deep engineering and program leadership, he has held roles from senior software engineer to product owner and founder, and built cross-functional solutions like automated software Bill of Materials and open source compliance programs. A Stanford-trained technology entrepreneur and Quantic EMBA alumnus based in Ripon, CA, he combines device-level systems expertise with product and operational rigor—and quietly mentors youth tech education through his past nonprofit, Smart Kids Code.
11 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
EMBA, Business Administration and Management, General, EMBA, Business Administration and Management, General at Quantic School of Business and TechnologyX11, Computer Science, X11, Computer Science at National Public SchoolBengaluru UniversityMaster of Science (M.S.), Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Master of Science (M.S.), Electrical and Electronics Engineering at Bradley UniversityTechnology Entrepreneurship, Technology Entrepreneurship at Stanford University
English, Tamil
Stackoverflow
1reputation
1kreached
0answers
1question
Github Skills (53)
stackdriver9
zipkin9
instrumentation9
opencensus9
trace9
logging8
distributed-tracing8
monitoring8
javascript7
licensing7
jaeger7
linux-kernel7
jekyll7
credits7
kernel7
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
tags07/gopipm.github.io
Oct 2023 - Oct 2023
Contributions:17 pushes in 1 day
census-instrumentation/census-instrumentation.github.io
Aug 2017 - Oct 2017
Contributions:3 PRs, 8 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
opencensus
Find and Hire Top DevelopersWe’ve analyzed the programming source code of over 60 million software developers on GitHub and scored them by 50,000 skills. Sign-up on Prog,AI to search for software developers.