Vikash Kumar
Co-Founder at zop.dev
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
Summary
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Top SchoolVikash Kumar is a seasoned product-focused engineer and entrepreneur with 12 years of experience building web and mobile platforms and leading engineering teams from prototyping to scale. As Co-Founder of zop.dev and Creator of the opinionated Go framework gofr.dev, he blends hands-on backend engineering with product intuition to accelerate microservice development and observability. He has steered technology and product at retailers globally as CTO of ZopSmart and previously led engineering at ZopNow, demonstrating both people leadership and delivery at scale. Early career work includes architecting high-throughput SMS/payment platforms and reducing release cycles through automation, showing a long history of operational thinking. His open-source contributions to gofr emphasize robust testing, service integration (Redis/MySQL) and automation—underscoring a practical commitment to quality and developer experience. Based in Bengaluru and an IIT Bombay alumnus, he combines deep engineering chops with a track record of shipping customer-facing products.
12 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
I.Sc. Physics Chemistry Maths, I.Sc. Physics Chemistry Maths at Science College10th, 10th at Netarhat SchoolIndian Institute of Technology Bombay
Github Skills (9)
golang10
rest-api10
go10
testing10
microservices-application9
microservices9
http-server8
mysql8
redis8
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
gofr-dev/gofr
Oct 2023 - Mar 2025
An opinionated GoLang framework for accelerated microservice development. Built in support for databases and observability.
Role in this project:
Backend & Test Automation Engineer
Backend & Test Automation EngineerContributions:42 reviews, 98 PRs, 146 pushes in 1 year 4 months
Contributions summary:Vikash's commits primarily focused on increasing test coverage for the GoFr framework. They added utilities for testing output to stdout and stderr, fixed linting issues, and expanded test cases for the sample API. Further contributions included adding Redis and MySQL services for testing and fixing related handler examples. The user demonstrated proficiency in writing unit tests and integrating external services to enhance the framework's testing capabilities.
gogolanggolang-frameworkgrpcgrpc-go
vikash/learning-golang
Aug 2018 - May 2021
Contributions:4 commits, 2 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 9 months
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