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Recommendations

Professional testimonials from colleagues, managers, and executives I've worked with over the past two decades.

18 recommendations
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Freddie Gjertsen
Head of Product, TouchNote
July 2013
Gopal arrived at a growing start-up that possessed a small-scale and creaking infrastructure and slow, unreliable APIs. He proceeded to re-engineer both. He massively improved the speed and reliability of our service and established an infrastructure that dealt with a spike of 100x in daily usage with no performance impact whatsoever. Incredible. Gopal is cheerful, considered, and diligent. He pervades calmness and makes problems disappear. He can always be turned to for a thoughtful and clear analysis. His subtle observations and approach continuously influenced and improved the way Touchnote operated. Gopal makes things work. Every company needs him.
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Animesh Das
Engineering Manager, InMage/Tanla
June 2009
I've seen and known Gopal in a professional capacity for quite a few years now. I had the pleasure of managing Gopal for several years at Tanla in the Offshore Delivery Engineering Group and In InMage Systems. Our acquaintance began during our time together as colleagues in InMage Systems; and grew over the years with Gopal continuously accepting one challenge after the other. I watched Gopal grow in maturity and responsibility from doing technical problem solving, programming & support to driving more major initiatives that required research, experimentation and close partnership of cross-functional teams. As a colleague, I've seen Gopal perform spectacularly. He is a very good professional and believes in taking ownership and doing hard work. Whatever he does he gives his 100% effort and most of the time he has achieved success and that motivates to the others. As a human being he is very sensitive and honest person. Every small and minor detail that was put on his plate (coding tasks) was dealt with rapidly and efficiently. He learns and adapts extremely well. His eye for detail, meticulousness in delivering results, ability to vision out technical minutiae are truly great. Gopal's communication and grasping skills, and between multiple types of software systems (front-end, back-end, middle-ware, etc.) are worth mentioning. He can quickly 'see' what others would take a few eons to understand; and he will as quickly communicate it to the intended audience. Gopal's analytical and problem solving skills are superb. He is a determined, hard working, technically very very strong. I've seen this young man maturing over the years and I consider him a giant today. Although he has worked in high visible international companies, his intellect, skills and talents are far beyond. If Gopal takes on anything you can be sure that it will be completed very successfully. I would give a very strong recommendation for Gopal for any damn work related to LAMP, C++, Java and .NET.
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Oded Ran
CEO, TouchNote
July 2013
A few words about Gopal: super smart, always delivers, extremely responsible and reliable, master of all things AWS-PHP-Java-DB-SysAdmin (and then some), relaxed and always happy at 8am (or at 2am when GoDaddy goes down). As a full time Sr Developer or a contractor, Gopal will no doubt be star performer in any team he joins.
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Nicholas Babaian
Head of Mobile
July 2013
Gopal is a real treasure. I watched him take on several tough challenges, and he always did them quickly and efficiently - and with a constant smile on his face. I would hire or recommend Gopal with zero hesitation.
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Raam Thakrar
Founder, TouchNote
July 2013
Gopal is a very strong software engineer. He combines a very strong work ethic with a keen intellect. He's diligent and trust-worthy. He's also a very nice person. I recommend him highly. I'd love to work with him again.
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Yogi Patel
Senior iPhone Developer
July 2013
Gopal is an incredible engineer! A very precise individual who has a brilliant ability to manage the entire backend system and is always at hand to solve complex problems. Gopal understands client server architecture very well and delivers solutions efficiently. I would cherish the chance to work with Gopal again!
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Leonie Pfalz
Strategic Product Design Leader
July 2013
Gopal is an exceptional developer, always professional and calm with a kind character. An absolute pleasure to work with!
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Marlon Andall
Project and Delivery Manager
July 2013
One of the most amazing people I have ever worked with. His passion and dedication to his work is second to none. Not only was he able work diligently to solve complex problems but also he was also able to break down step by step all the pieces that made a problem. From there he would work out a solution and break the steps down to how the new solution would solve the problem. Simply put, Gopal is a prodigy and is second to none.
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Darrel Fox
Software Engineer
July 2013
Gopal ji is easily the most competent, professional and skilled developer I've ever had the pleasure of working with. A brilliant mind and a top bloke that will no doubt go on to do more wonderful and great things. I will make sure to stay in touch and wish him all the best for the future.
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Andy Hunt
CRM Developer
July 2013
Gopal is the Golden Child - his famous nickname at TouchNote as he was quite simply a treasure to work with. Gopal is an excellent developer, an intelligent man and someone I hope to work with again in the future. Truly brilliant at his job and a thoroughly nice person too. I can't recommend Gopal highly enough.
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Nikola Pohlupkov
AI GTM Ops
June 2013
A brilliant colleague to have around. He does everything with such ease thanks to his encyclopedic mind and professional attitude. Gopal is an absolute pleasure to work with and I would highly, highly recommend him. Thanks to his phenomenal abilities everything is doable. I dare you to find someone more dedicated and more pleasurable to work with.
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Enock Kabungo II
Technical Development Analyst
June 2013
Famously nicknamed the 'Golden Child' Gopal is a brilliant Developer with an excellent team spirit with a good sense of humour. He has an amazingly willing attitude at providing solutions and also to empower and support other members of his team to do so. He endeavours to deliver excellent results to set deadlines and in most cases even beating the timelines by completing the set targets before the deadline without compromising on the quality of the work/solutions. Gopal would definitely be a great addition to any team or organisation. Highly recommended.
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Kalyan Nalluri
Technical Lead, Software Engineering
June 2013
I worked closely with Gopal at Airhub. He is such a great guy - smart, organized, creative and dedicated. He has broad experience and knowledge in multiple areas. Beyond his role, he is always ready to provide a helping hand wherever necessary. I recommend him highly. Any company will be lucky to have him work for them.
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Charles Fatusin
QA Specialist, HSBC
June 2013
I can easily recommend Gopal! He is truly high-class back end developer. He had the nickname of the "Golden Child", due to his ability to determine whether a bug was related to the client or server after only being told once. He would run it through within himself and come to his conclusion. Gopal would be a tremendous acquisition to any organisation!
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Paul Burdin
CFO, TouchNote
June 2013
Gopal is an excellent developer. He is extremely diligent, conscientious, humble and constantly good-natured, but is also an expert problem solver. He is someone you wish you could clone!
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Kiran Palukuri
Technical BA, Digital Transformation
April 2011
Gopal was one of the most efficient developers in the application of open source software (Drupal). He is tenacious and hell bent at finding solution well ahead of expected timelines. He has the ability to quickly learn and apply relevant new technologies. This came in handy while we are in the development stage of a crucial portal for the client. I consider him to be a great asset.
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Srinivasa Babu Thota
Co-Founder, CEO at TheGiftBank.In
April 2011
I had the privilege of working with Mr. Gopal on a couple IT positions at the same company. As I remember, Gopal was a very productive person. Self motivated and creative leader - that's him! Gopal never refuses you when you ask him for help.
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Ramesh Mantha
Program Manager, Engineering Leader
January 2009
Its my pleasure to write something about Gopal. Gopal is exceptional in his handling of a difficult set of development cycles, always delivered, even when under extreme stress. He is a true professional with dignity and excellent attitude. He is a very motivated and committed person. He takes challenging tasks and gets it done. He worked for several Project managers and at most times, worked on multiple projects simultaneously. Last but not least a very helpful individual to rely on anytime.