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Gopalakrishna Gudivada is a Chartered Engineer with over 11 years of experience in the Railroad and Oil & Energy industries. He has functional expertise in Business Analysis, Monitoring & Diagnostics, Health Assessment, and Prognostics of Engineering systems, Data Analytics Process Discovery/Mining, Product Development & Design Engineering. He is a graduate of Process Control & Instrumentation Engineering from National Institute of Technology (NIT) – Tiruchirapalli. Gopalakrishna is Lean Six Sigma-Green Belt certified from General Electric, certified in Project Management principles from Project Management University of General Electric, and a Certified ScrumMaster®. He is also a Certified Functional Safety Engineer (TUVSA/2019/FSC03/S6/0001/0003/0001). He has diverse experience working in various geographies across the globe, including Europe, Asia Pacific, North America, and India. He has played customer-facing roles with large Railroad, Oil & Gas customers in global projects. Gopalakrishna's technical specialties include Data Mining, Applied Analytics, Data Visualization, Agile Methodologies, Rotating Machine Controls, Industrial Automation, firm knowledge of upstream, midstream & Downstream O&G applications, Project Execution, and Management. He is currently working as a Staff (Advanced Lead) Engineer-Product Performance at GE Transportation. In his previous roles at GE Transportation and GE Oil & Gas, Gopalakrishna worked on leading Product Performance Analytics & Reliability programs for Railroad Energy Management solutions and developing a prognostic model for predicting the health status of Safety critical valves used in process applications. He also worked on a decisive analytic model that considers environmental conditions of the production system for predicting safety-critical situations for smart Well operations. The modeling technique for valve application has been patented in USPTO, and the novelty of the model has been patented in USPTO. Gopalakrishna's education history includes a Master's degree in Process Control & Instrumentation Engineering from NIT Tiruchirappalli, a Bachelor's degree in Electrical & Electronics Engineering from JNT University, Hyderabad, and a Diploma in Electrical & Electronics Engineering from MBTS Govt. Polytechnic, SBTET, Guntur. His tech stack includes SQL, Senior Software Engineer, test, Python, and Research Scientist. Gopalakrishna has 14.20 years of relevant experience in the industry.