Kaushik Gopal
Principal Mobile Engineer at Fragmented Podcast
United States
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Top SchoolKaushik Gopal is a Principal Mobile Engineer with 11 years of experience, currently leading Caper smart cart software and front-end efforts at Instacart. He has progressed through senior engineering and leadership roles at Instacart since 2015, blending hands-on Android development with product-facing system design. An active open-source contributor, he has improved Instacart’s truetime-android NTP library—simplifying RxJava code and preparing coroutine support to ensure reliable device time sync. Beyond corporate roles, he co-hosts the popular Fragmented Podcast for Android developers, signaling strong community influence and mentorship. Trained at Carnegie Mellon (MS in Computer Software Engineering) and IIT Madras, he combines rigorous academic grounding with a track record of shipping production mobile systems and bridging mobile, embedded, and frontend disciplines.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Indian Institute of Technology MadrasMaster's degree Computer Software Engineering, Master's degree Computer Software Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University
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Github Skills (22)
kotlin10
rxjavafx10
synchronized10
ntp10
clock10
timex10
android10
rxjava10
synchronize10
mobile10
timed10
clock-synchronization10
coroutines9
retrofit6
integration-testing6
Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
instacart/truetime-android
Jul 2016 - Aug 2022
Android NTP time library. Get the true current time impervious to device clock time changes
Role in this project:
Mobile Developer (Android)
Mobile Developer (Android)Contributions:7 releases, 6 reviews, 97 commits in 6 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Kaushik contributed to the `instacart/truetime-android` repository, an Android NTP time library, by implementing features and refactoring code related to time synchronization. They added a new interface `TrueTime2` and made various changes to the RxJava-based implementation. Furthermore, the user worked on integrating the time library into a sample application. These efforts included simplifying Rx code and preparing for a coroutine implementation.
clockrxjavantpandroidsntp
kaushikgopal/homebrew-tools
Oct 2021 - Apr 2024
Contributions:1 release, 24 pushes, 1 tag in 2 years 6 months
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