Vikas Gahlan
Vice President Of Engineering at Enphase Energy
San Francisco Bay Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolVikas Gahlan is a seasoned engineering leader with over a decade of experience building and scaling multidisciplinary product and R&D organizations across energy, EV charging, and embedded systems. As VP of Engineering at Enphase and former founding engineering leader at ChargePoint, he has led global hardware-to-cloud teams to deliver commercial EV chargers, bidirectional energy systems, and the largest EV charging networks. He excels at founding and growing high-performing teams—driving 250% headcount growth at Booster without attrition—and at turning complex systems-level requirements into shipped products from board bring-up to cloud services. Comfortable in both deep technical ownership (Linux BSPs, real-time systems, networking) and executive strategy, he has a track record of influencing M&A, fundraising, and product roadmaps. Based in the San Francisco Bay Area, Vikas blends startup grit with enterprise rigor to accelerate clean energy electrification.
10 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Master and Bachelor of Science Computer Science, Master and Bachelor of Science Computer Science at Kurukshetra University
Github Skills (25)
bidirectional7
client-server7
synchronous7
endpoint7
c-library6
libuv6
embeddable6
libev6
busybox6
upstream6
beast6
emitter5
libevent5
freertos5
signaling5
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (2)
ChargePoint/buildroot
Nov 2020 - Feb 2021
ChargePoint internal mirror of buildroot. Upstream: git://git.busybox.net/buildroot
Contributions:13 reviews, 4 commits, 9 PRs in 2 months
internalchargepointupstreambuildrootbusybox
warmcat/libwebsockets
Oct 2015 - Oct 2015
canonical libwebsockets.org networking library
Contributions:1 issue in 1 day
client-serverlwslibevlibuvendpoint
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