Gopal Venkatesan Email & Phone Number

Bengaluru, KA, IN

Sunnyvale, CA, US

Sunnyvale, CA, US

• Expanded LinkedIn Lite from emerging markets and launched it globally for all markets including the U.S.
• Came up with Groups-Events tech stack unification strategy
• Implemented an automated testing framework using headless Chrome (Puppeteer)

Sunnyvale, CA, US

• Implemented PWA (Progressive Web App) on top of LinkedIn Lite's SSR (server side rendered) architecture
• Architected LinkedIn Lite, a light-weight high performant mobile web LinkedIn.com site for India and emerging markets
• Designed and implemented an Ember component for reporting spam on LinkedIn. This was integrated into various LinkedIn pillars including feed, profile, messaging

Austin, Texas, US

Xook is a stealth-mode startup that will disrupt the F&B industry.

San Francisco, California, US

Peoplebox is an all-in-one software for Employee Engagement & Performance Management for your Remote & Distributed Teams, that enables HR leaders to build strong human connections, achieve best results and ensure retention for their remote workforce.

Sunnyvale, CA, US

• Led a team of ten front-end engineers on rewrite of Yahoo Mail using Node.js and React
• Worked on various stability initiatives for Yahoo Mail. Paired with two other engineers and worked on functional tests using Cucumber
• Implemented SPDY in Yahoo Mail
• Along with the Yahoo Aviate Android team hacked on some cool features that will be part of an upcoming version of the product. The team made it to the Hack Day finalist in Q2, 2014
• Designed and implemented Yahoo Mail Tictacs, an extension framework to develop apps on Yahoo Mail https://www.slideshare.net/g13n/tictacs-yahoo-mail-addons
• Reduced time to render the Inbox in Yahoo Mail by 15% by refactoring and delay loading non-core services. Also implemented performance dashboards based on Boomerang as part of a two member performance team

Sunnyvale, CA, US

• Architecture/technology reviews for all projects in Listings group and hands-on design/implementation for Global Travel. Understand customer’s business needs and priorities to cross-pollinate best practices.
• Successfully led the development through the first launch of Global Travel in UK – http://uk.travel.yahoo.com. This is a true global platform having a “Grade A” in GlobalReady Spaceport tool
• Worked with the Service and Quality Engineering teams to lay out the release and post production processes for Global Travel
• Worked with Vespa platform team to resolve a major problem with the platform configuration and deployment topology for Global Travel

Sunnyvale, CA, US

• Design and implement a common global-ready listings platform that can be leveraged to launch listing properties like Movies, Travel, etc. Understand customer’s business needs and priorities to cross-pollinate best.
• Helped Yahoo! India Education to launch their property in less than six months by leveraging the common components and code developed for Global Travel
• Designed and developed the off-line and on-line storage components and the associated APIs based on Vespa. Also, designed the core component (code named Air Traffic Controller) that connects all of the Travel.
• Laid out the architecture of Global Travel based on the common blueprint to be a single solution for Yahoo! Travel for all Int’ls. Defined the various components for Global Travel so that common patterns can be reused.
• Designed and developed a new data store based on Vespa/VDS for listings platforms by implementing the reference implementation in Travel. This is being adopted by Yahoo! India Education and Yahoo! Autos as well
• Worked with the senior architect in the Listings organization to come up with the common listings blueprint that should be adopted by all listing properties

Sunnyvale, CA, US

• As part of the Emerging Markets team, push Yahoo! to new markets. Guiding teams on POCs on various platforms & products and reference implementations.
• Trained the Yahoo! India development team on Metro, the new platform for building Yahoo! home pages
• Investigated the various front-end frameworks within Yahoo! and proposed Maple, which was one among them for developing the new Yahoo! home page
• Spear-headed the India development team comprising of mostly new joiners in Yahoo! to successfully launch the new Yahoo! India Search based on Glue
• Customized My Yahoo! for Turkey and successfully launched the home page for Yahoo! Turkey
• Developed the internal classifieds product (code named Getafix) and successfully launched it

Sunnyvale, CA, US

• Launch Message Boards in several Int’ls. Design and develop the new Yahoo! Alerts platform.
• Design and develop the front-end and admin tool of the Yahoo! Alerts using R3 (rthree.sf.net.) This made the look & feel and translations completely customizable by the properties that want to use and customize Yahoo!.
• Customized and launched Yahoo! Message Boards in more than ten Int’ls (various languages.)
• Rolled out the first version of the extensible Yahoo! Message Boards in early 2006

Sunnyvale, CA, US

• Design and develop the new Yahoo! Message Boards that should be completely customizable by the customers (Int’ls.)
• Gave trainings on the internal templating system (Rosetta) to many teams within Yahoo! Bangalore
• Designed and developed the Yahoo! Message Boards using Rosetta
• Was the first person in Yahoo! Bangalore to use and evangelize Rosetta
• Was the first web developer in Yahoo! Bangalore and hence gave many training sessions to teams on PHP, HTML, CSS and JavaScript

Chennai, Tamil Nadu, IN

• Understanding the functional specifications and design, develop the system. Testing the developed application and deploy it on the production environments.
• Designed and developed the Sify PHP Foundation Classes (SPFC) that formed the foundation APIs upon which systems like CMS were built upon. The CMS application enabled the transition of all the Sify's sites that were.
• Designed and developed a caching system for PHP applications for improving user experience as well as reducing the bandwidth usage. This simple caching system used files and stored the content (article fetched from the.
• Developed the Sify Site Search by extending mnoGoSearch (www.mnogosearch.org), an open source crawler and search engine.
• Developed a set of PHP coding standards and practices for use within Sify for better application performance.

Chennai, Tamil Nadu, IN

• Understanding the functional specifications and design, develop the system. Testing the developed application and deploy it on the production environments.
• Was part of the team that designed and developed the Sify Enterprise Mail Server front-end for clients including U21, SBI, Dalmia. The application is a front-end for any IMAP server using standard IMAP protocol.
• Was part of the team that designed and developed the Sify Address Book application. The application is a contact list manager that allows users to maintain their contact list that can be used across all of Sify's.
• Developed Return2India, a premier discussion forum for NRIs by extending the open source HyperNews (hypernews.org) engine. The application uses Perl and caches the entire archived message list for every month in a.

• Involved in interacting with the clients, for requirements collection, designing the functional flow of the System and thereafter design and develop the system.
• Led and developed the IndiaPlaza.com shopping portal using JScript/ASP and Microsoft SQL Server. Developed a template engine that can speed up development for database-driven web portals.
• Developed “Active Help” in C++ using Win32 API (for the GUI), a program that parses web pages and hyperlinks the words that match against a custom dictionary. Hovering over such words brings the “help text” associated.
• Led and developed Rhythm House, a web-based music store attracting numerous users world-wide. This project was developed using VBScript/ASP and Microsoft SQL Server for Sify Ltd.
• Was part of the team that designed and developed the Project Management System (PMS.) PMS is a sleek project management tool that allows users to manage projects, client interaction, and resources easily and.
• Was part of the team that developed “Review Builder”, a tool that allows customer managers to create custom feedback forms customizable per web site. The system was developed using VBScript/ASP and Microsoft SQL Server.

• Developed SqlDump, a program to backup Microsoft SQL Server database as a text file (analogous to mysqldump.) This software was open sourced around 2002 and was published in the June 2002 edition of PC Quest (under.
• Developed a student administration software using Visual Basic for First Computers in Chennai.
• Developed an accounting package using Visual Basic (16-bit) on Windows 3.11 for Sri Vaishnavi BenefitFund in Chennai.

Bachelor Of Science, Physics

Diploma In Rdbms

Gniit (Graduate Niit), Computer Science