Gurunathan Govindan
Sr Firmware Engineer at Spot AI
San Francisco Bay Area United States
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Top SchoolGurunathan Govindan is a senior firmware engineer with 10+ years building media-rich, cloud-native systems from the device up to serverless architectures in the San Francisco Bay Area. He combines deep C/C++ and Python expertise with hands-on Linux, GStreamer/FFmpeg, and media transport protocol debugging (SIP, RTP/RTCP) experience from roles at Cisco and Polycom. At Thuuz Sports he architected high-performance, Dockerized and serverless pipelines to process millions of frames for OCR and live highlight delivery, and he has productionized CI/CD and observability stacks using Jenkins, Grafana, InfluxDB, Datadog and Elasticsearch. Currently at Spot AI, he focuses on firmware and edge integrations that bridge embedded systems with AWS services and microservices ecosystems. Colleagues rely on him for pragmatic, test-driven solutions and on-call ownership; outside work he quips “there is a monkey in my mind,” reflecting a playful curiosity that drives his continual experimentation and open-source contributions.
10 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
BSc, MCA, Computer science, BSc, MCA, Computer science at Bharathidasan UniversityMasters, Computer Science, Masters, Computer Science at Shanmugha Arts, Science, Technology and Research Academy
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Github Skills (45)
ajax9
chrony9
ntp9
rest9
docker8
kitematic8
alpine-linux8
golang8
amazon8
webrtc8
toolbox7
ntpd7
broadcasting7
amazon-web-services7
sfu7
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
ggovindan/ffmpeg_vagrant
Jul 2018 - Jun 2021
A vagrant for running applications that use FFMPEG libraries. This builds the ffmpeg and its related libraries as `.so` files for dynamic linking
Contributions:5 PRs, 7 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 10 months
vagrantvmsbuildslinkingffmpeg
ggovindan/tamil_text_editor
Jul 2016 - Jun 2017
Contributions:8 commits, 7 pushes, 1 branch in 11 months
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