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Gokul K G

Engineering Director

Bengaluru

13+ years of work experience

Centre of Data for Public Good (CDPG), FSID, IISc Bangalore
Apr 20242 yrs 6 mosPresent

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Currently, I lead engineering at CDPG, driving the architecture and development of the India Urban Data Exchange (IUDX) and multiple state-level data exchange platforms, including TGDeX, MahaAgX, Forest Stack, with more platforms coming soon. My work spans technical strategy, system architecture, microservices, engineering delivery, hiring, and stakeholder collaboration.
oorja.energy
Jan 20231 yr 1 moJan 2024

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

I led engineering at Oorja Energy, taking a SaaS-based battery optimization platform from an initial POC to a scalable production solution. I helped build the early platform, later transitioned and scaled the backend within the Python ecosystem, built and managed the engineering team, and owned platform delivery while collaborating closely with data science teams and business stakeholders to integrate ML and physics-based optimization models
oorja.energy
Jan 20231 yr 1 moJan 2024

Hybrid

As part of Cerenode, we collaborated with Oorja Energy as their technology partner and built the PoC for their initial platform
Cerenode
Apr 20157 yrs 10 mosJan 2023

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

At Cerenode, I served as a Technical Lead, driving the architecture and development of data and Knowledge Graph platforms for Healthcare & Life Sciences. I led platform development using Scala, built Python-based analytics tools, and worked on Angular-based front-end applications. The platform leveraged RDF graph databases such as Virtuoso for complex knowledge relationships and Elasticsearch for high-performance search and discovery. I remained hands-on across the stack while leading the team and shaping the overall platform architecture.
Tookitaki
Sep 20131 yr 7 mosMar 2015

Banglore

At Tookitaki, I was one of the early engineering team members, starting as a Full Stack Developer and contributing to the MVP of the analytics platform. I later moved into backend and data platform engineering, working primarily with Java and Scala, building Kafka-based data pipelines, managing large-scale data processing workflows, and developing scalable APIs to support analytics applications.
Microsoft
Mar 20136 mosAug 2013

hyderabad

As an Associate Developer, I contributed to an MVP built on a Hadoop–Hive cluster, developing Java-based backend components for data processing and query workflows, along with interactive data visualization tools using D3.js

Gokul’s AI Stack

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Education

Cochin University of Science and Technology

Bachelor of Technology (BTech), Computer Science

Cochin University of Science and Technology

20084 yrs2012

Higher Secondary, Computer Science

St:Antonys Higher Secondary School Pudukad

20062 yrs2008

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Headline

Engineering Director

About

Engineering Director with 14+ years of experience in full-stack development, software architecture, engineering leadership, and building scalable platforms from 0→1 through production scale. Currently, I lead engineering at CDPG, driving technical strategy, architecture, teams, and delivery for IUDX, TGDeX, MahaAgX, Forest Stack, and upcoming data exchange platforms. I’m leading the backend modernization from Java/Vert.x to Go, alongside AI-powered data discovery and agentic systems using LLMs and MCP. Before CDPG, I spent over a decade primarily across three startups — Oorja Energy, Cerenode, and Tookitaki — building products hands-on across the full stack and progressively taking on technical and engineering leadership. My experience spans building early MVPs and SaaS products, backend APIs and distributed data platforms, Knowledge Graph and analytics systems, and scaling engineering teams and products into production. My journey combines hands-on full-stack engineering, 0→1 platform building, system architecture, and engineering leadership, with experience across Go, Java, Scala, Python, Angular, distributed systems, data platforms, and AI/agentic systems.

Location

Bengaluru

AI stack

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Work experience

Director of Engineering at Centre of Data for Public Good (CDPG), FSID, IISc Bangalore, Apr 2024 - Present · 2 yrs 6 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, Currently, I lead engineering at CDPG, driving the architecture and development of the India Urban Data Exchange (IUDX) and multiple state-level data exchange platforms, including TGDeX, MahaAgX, Forest Stack, with more platforms coming soon. My work spans technical strategy, system architecture, microservices, engineering delivery, hiring, and stakeholder collaboration.

Lead Software Engineer at oorja.energy, Jan 2023 - Jan 2024 · 1 yr 1 mo, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, I led engineering at Oorja Energy, taking a SaaS-based battery optimization platform from an initial POC to a scalable production solution. I helped build the early platform, later transitioned and scaled the backend within the Python ecosystem, built and managed the engineering team, and owned platform delivery while collaborating closely with data science teams and business stakeholders to integrate ML and physics-based optimization models

Senior Software Engineer at oorja.energy, Jan 2023 - Jan 2024 · 1 yr 1 mo, Hybrid, As part of Cerenode, we collaborated with Oorja Energy as their technology partner and built the PoC for their initial platform

Senior Software Development Engineer at Cerenode, Apr 2015 - Jan 2023 · 7 yrs 10 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, At Cerenode, I served as a Technical Lead, driving the architecture and development of data and Knowledge Graph platforms for Healthcare & Life Sciences. I led platform development using Scala, built Python-based analytics tools, and worked on Angular-based front-end applications. The platform leveraged RDF graph databases such as Virtuoso for complex knowledge relationships and Elasticsearch for high-performance search and discovery. I remained hands-on across the stack while leading the team and shaping the overall platform architecture.

Full Stack Developer at Tookitaki, Sep 2013 - Mar 2015 · 1 yr 7 mos, Banglore, At Tookitaki, I was one of the early engineering team members, starting as a Full Stack Developer and contributing to the MVP of the analytics platform. I later moved into backend and data platform engineering, working primarily with Java and Scala, building Kafka-based data pipelines, managing large-scale data processing workflows, and developing scalable APIs to support analytics applications.

Associate Software Developer at Microsoft, Mar 2013 - Aug 2013 · 6 mos, hyderabad, As an Associate Developer, I contributed to an MVP built on a Hadoop–Hive cluster, developing Java-based backend components for data processing and query workflows, along with interactive data visualization tools using D3.js

Education

Bachelor of Technology (BTech), Computer Science, Cochin University of Science and Technology

Higher Secondary, Computer Science, St:Antonys Higher Secondary School Pudukad