Vasanth Gopa
Software Engineer III at American Express
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
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Top SchoolVasanth Gopa is a pragmatic software engineer with 8 years of experience building automation-first infrastructure and developer-facing tools, currently at American Express after a multi-year DevOps and engineering stint at SAP Labs India. He specializes in automation with Groovy, Shell, and Python, CI/CD with Jenkins, infrastructure-as-code using Chef, and container orchestration (CKA/Kubernetes), while also shipping full-stack projects in Node.js, Vue/React. Beyond day-to-day ops, he’s an active open-source contributor and mentor—building tools for Wikimedia and guiding GSoC interns—and he built an award-winning d-shop inventory app that highlights his maker mindset and knack for turning community needs into production software. Comfortable bridging infrastructure and application layers, he mixes hands-on scripting with product-focused collaboration to accelerate team productivity.
8 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Technology, Computer Science, First Class with Distinction, Bachelor of Technology, Computer Science, First Class with Distinction at Amrita Vishwa VidyapeethamData Mining and Cyber Security, Data Mining and Cyber Security at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
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Github Skills (78)
mediawiki10
gerrit10
collaborative-editing10
wikipedia10
wikimedia10
editing10
php10
wikimedia-commons9
react9
ping9
wikidata8
commons8
mediawiki-extension8
typescript8
ui-components7
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
gopavasanth/ToolWatch
Jul 2023 - Feb 2025
ToolWatch checks the health status of various Wikimedia tools deployed in Toolforge and displays them in a user-friendly UI.
Contributions:17 reviews, 10 PRs, 25 pushes in 1 year 7 months
toolforgewikimedia
gopavasanth/video-cut-tool
Mar 2020 - Jul 2022
Wikimedia Tool to Trim Online Videos in Wikimedia Commons. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:VideoCutTool
Contributions:3 releases, 6 reviews, 12 commits in 2 years 4 months
commonswikimediavideocuttoolvideo-cut-toolvideo-editor
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