Gopinath Prathapaneni
Chief Technology Officer (Software)
Bangalore,Karnataka
Summary
Energetic CTO with 13+ years of experience and proven leadership skills. Built a modern IOT system named eGlu with frontend and backend which is being used by more than 7000 homes today. Co-founded b2b division called Pulse and took it to the market and eventually failed it since it was not financially viable.
Overview
14
14
years of professional experience
4
4
years of post-secondary education
10
10
Years of working for startups
Work History
CTO (Software)
WiZN Systems Pvt Ltd
Bengaluru, Karnataka
05.2021 - Current
- Designed microservice based system for eGlu's backend for horizontal scaling, from the existing monolith system.
- Setup a team and systems in place for automated software delivery.
- Hired people from across the country in the most frugal way possible.
- Implemented protocol buffers based storage for storing high volume IOT data
Director of Software Development
WiZN Systems Pvt Ltd
Bengaluru, Karnataka
10.2018 - 05.2021
- Strengthened the team by managing the hiring process.
- Ensured quality software development and delivery by institutionalizing best practices like unit testing and test driven development
- Mentored junior developers and engineers through onboarding process and long-term team contributions.
Software Architect
WiZN Systems Pvt Ltd
Bengaluru, Karnataka
06.2014 - 10.2018
- Joined as 2nd employee of WiZN Systems and a would be sole contributor of eGlu software.
- Designed and implemented eGlu backend which supports 28 different kind of hardware products as on today.
- Designed and implemented eGlu Android app which has a rating of 4.8/5 even today.
- Integrated eGlu with Alexa and the Google Assistants when there were no high level SDKs available for them.
- Hired interns out of college who turned out to be best bets and who are still with the organization.
Senior Software Engineer
Pilani Soft Labs (RedBus)
Bengaluru, Karnataka
05.2013 - 06.2021
Education
B.tech - Computer Science And Engineering
SVU College of Engineering
Tirupati 07.2004 - 05.2008
Skills
Leadership
Tools of the trade
- Microservices, gRPC, Docker, Kubernetes, Kafka
- Native Android (11 years of expertise) and Flutter
- Kotlin, JavaEE, Spring, Ktor, kscript
- Sql, NoSql, Protobuf
- devops: nginx, jetty, GCP
- Html5, MEAN
Work Availability
monday
tuesday
wednesday
thursday
friday
saturday
sunday
morning
afternoon
evening
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Quote
Judge a man by his questions rather than his answers.
Voltaire
Timeline
CTO (Software)
WiZN Systems Pvt Ltd
05.2021 - Current
Director of Software Development
WiZN Systems Pvt Ltd
10.2018 - 05.2021
Software Architect
WiZN Systems Pvt Ltd
06.2014 - 10.2018
Senior Software Engineer
Pilani Soft Labs (RedBus)
05.2013 - 06.2021
B.tech - Computer Science And Engineering
SVU College of Engineering
07.2004 - 05.2008
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