Sathish Gopalakrishnan
Principal Software Engineer at Kennesaw State University - Southern Polytechnic College of Engineering and Engineering Technology
Atlanta Metropolitan Area United States
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Top SchoolSathish Gopalakrishnan is a Principal Software Engineer with nearly two decades of experience designing cloud-native, high-scale architectures across Fintech, supply chain and privacy domains. He currently shapes data strategy and platform architecture for Mastercard’s Priceless platform, where his migrations and optimizations cut infrastructure costs dramatically and improved availability and performance. Known for turning legacy systems into multi-tenant microservices on AWS and Azure, he routinely delivers resilient, secure and cost-effective solutions—one project reduced site refresh time by 83% while enabling container-ready deployments. He also led multi-region payment and scalability initiatives that expanded capacity from thousands to tens of thousands of concurrent users per second and moved critical crypto key management to hardware-backed services. Outside of product delivery he teaches computer engineering and computer science courses, bridging academic concepts with real-world system design. A practical technologist and mentor, he pairs hands-on coding with cross-team leadership to move ambitious platform transformations into production.
11 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
BITS Pilani, Birla Institute of Technology and ScienceMaster of Science - MS CyberSecurity, Master of Science - MS CyberSecurity at Georgia Institute of TechnologyBachelor of Technology - BTech Information Technology, Bachelor of Technology - BTech Information Technology at SRM IST Chennai
Github Skills (13)
machine-learning4
java2
adt2
java-client2
graph1
python1
social-network-analysis1
network-analysis1
moss1
statistical-learning1
mp31
data-science1
sum1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
CPEN-221/practice1
Sep 2019 - Sep 2023
Practice 1: One for you and one for me
Contributions:1 push, 1 branch in 4 years
CPEN-221/practice4
Sep 2019 - Sep 2023
Contributions:1 push, 1 branch in 4 years
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