Gowtham Gopalakrishnan
Staff Engineer at Freshworks
Greater Chennai Area India
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Top SchoolGowtham Gopalakrishnan is a Staff Engineer with 11 years of experience designing and optimizing cloud-native services, currently leading the CX Infra stack at Freshworks where he oversees four Go-based systems. He built WHaaS (WebHooks as a Service) used across the company and previously led the SMTP/email platform, blending deep backend engineering with operational ownership in AWS. Comfortable across stacks from Java NIO to Go, Angular, and containerized deployments, he focuses on efficiency, observability, and pragmatic design. An active open-source contributor, he improved content type handling for the widely used IPFS Kubo gateway, fixing a long-standing bug and enhancing gateway efficiency. Based in Chennai, he pairs hands-on coding with team leadership and a penchant for squeezing extra performance out of cloud services.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.) Information Technology, Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.) Information Technology at Kongu Engineering College 
English, Tamil
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Github Skills (18)
postgresql10
back-end-development10
ipfs10
homebrew10
go10
macos10
backend10
textbox9
http9
systemd6
hibernate6
sinatra6
windows6
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Programming languages (22)
Github contributions (5)
ipfs/kubo
May 2020 - May 2020
An IPFS implementation in Go
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:9 commits, 1 PR, 7 comments in 1 day
Contributions summary:Gowtham primarily contributed to the backend of the IPFS implementation, specifically focusing on improving content type detection within the gateway handler. Their work involved integrating the `gabriel-vasile/mimetype` library to support a wider array of content types, directly reading content streams, and optimizing import order. These changes addressed a specific bug (issue #7252) and improved the efficiency of the gateway service. The user also added error messages for better debugging.
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gowthamgts/breadcrumbs_on_rails
Jun 2021 - Aug 2024
A simple Ruby on Rails plugin for creating and managing a breadcrumb navigation.
Contributions:1 review, 1 PR, 4 pushes in 3 years 2 months
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