About

Gokul Kumar Krishnan is a highly skilled Senior Developer Support Engineer with over 7 years of experience in the tech industry. Currently working at Facebook, Gokul is responsible for providing technical support to developers and ensuring that their issues are resolved in a timely and efficient manner. Prior to his current role, Gokul worked at Qubole as a Big Data Support Engineer III, where he designed and developed a high-impact Splunk based project that was extensively used by the Support and Engineering teams. He also automated log gathering and analysis by creating an API backend to download and ingest logs to Splunk, which helped decrease log gathering time by ~20 minutes/ticket. Gokul's work at Qubole also involved troubleshooting issues on multiple big data engines like Hive, Spark, Presto, and Airflow, enabling customers to optimize their data pipeline. Gokul's educational background includes a Master's degree in Computer Science from Arizona State University, a Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.) in Information Technology from CVR College of Engineering, and a Nanodegree in Cloud Development from Udacity. He also holds a High School degree from Good Samaritan High School and an Intermediate degree in Mathematics, Physics, and Chemistry from Sri Chaitanya Junior Kalasala. Gokul's technical expertise includes Big Data, Backend development, Spark, Apache Airflow, and Apache Hive. He has relevant experience of 7.60 years in the industry and has collaborated effectively across teams, including Engineering, Operations, and Field teams, to drive issue resolution. With his strong technical skills and experience, Gokul is a valuable asset to any organization he works with.