Gopi Krishnan

Hi, I'm Gopi.

Senior Software Engineer · Solutions Architect · Consultant

Engineer by trade.

Architect in the making.

Tech enthusiast by obsession.

AI explorer by curiosity.

8+ years in tech, wearing multiple hats—best defined as a T-shaped developer striving for craftsmanship in every solution I build.

Bash
$principles
Understanding » Assumptions Value Delivered » Code Written Extensibility » Rework Systems Thinking » Quick Fixes Clarity » Cleverness
function solve(problem) { thinkLike(customer); simplify(problem); design(solution); deliver(value); }
$cat mission.txt
Design with intention. Build with care. Deliver with impact.

Current side quests:

🏋️ Weight Lifting
Quest Started: A few years ago
Current Goal: Stronger than yesterday
Reward: Discipline + Consistency
Status: Daily Grind
🏊 Swimming
Quest Started: 2025
Current Goal: Swim confidently
Reward: One less fear, one more life skill
Status: Learning the Basics
🎹 Music
Quest Started: Recently
Current Goal: Play my first complete song
Reward: Creativity + Patience
Status: Beginner's Journey
🍳 Cooking
Quest Started: Survival turned into curiosity
Current Goal: Master a few signature dishes
Reward: Self-sufficiency + Great food
Status: Experimenting
☕ Find Better Coffee
Quest Type: Infinite
Current Goal: The perfect latte
Progress: Undefined
Status: Infinite Quest
🥾 Explore Mountains
Current Goal: The next sunrise from a summit
Reward: Perspective + Peace
Status: Next Adventure Pending

If it's an interesting problem, an ambitious product, or an idea waiting to be built—I'm all in.

Writing

Technical essays & notes

Builds & Systems

Things I've shipped

products

An AI copilot that lives inside Freshdesk — crawls your knowledge base, past resolved tickets, and macros to surface the most relevant reply for each ticket. Agents review and send. No tab switching, no knowledge hunting.

43% faster FRT · 2× within-SLA · 30% lower handle time · 60% drop in after-hours work

AIRAGLLMFreshdesk ↗ Live Product

Open-source MCP servers that expose Freshdesk and Freshservice as tool-callable APIs — built during the early days of the MCP ecosystem. Validated internally by resolving 1,000+ support tickets at effy before public release.

46 GitHub stars · 27 forks · Listed on Smithery.ai

Brought CultureMonkey's employee engagement surveys directly into Microsoft Teams — so HR teams could run surveys without asking employees to open another tool. Live on Microsoft AppSource.

TeamsHR Tech ↗ AppSource

A Chrome extension that spots timezone mentions in Gmail and shows your local time inline — no tab-switching, no mental math. Turn on Universal Mode and it works on other sites too; there’s also a quick converter in the toolbar.

Chrome ExtensionProductivity ↗ Chrome Web Store↗ timesight.in
integrations

Took an existing Zoho People auth boilerplate and built the full sync architecture on top — multi-tenant isolation, error handling, retry logic, and customer onboarding workflows. Replicated across Keka HR, Workday, Darwinbox, and Workline.

6 HRMS platforms · 100,000+ employee records synced

Zoho PeopleWorkdayDarwinboxKeka

An in-house MFT service for CultureMonkey — gave enterprise customers a clean, configurable way to drop employee data files when APIs weren't an option. Dedicated FTP server, per-customer configuration, clean internal workflow.

MFTSFTPFTP

Shopify, ServiceNow, Magento, Slack, WhatsApp, Nium, Delhivery and 50+ more. One integration processed millions of student records — a drain stuck for weeks, resolved in 3 days via PM2 cluster mode and dual-layer throttling.

ShopifyServiceNowSlackWhatsAppMagento
infrastructure

Before: SSH into servers to check logs. After: centralised Grafana stack across 20+ services, custom dashboards, automated Slack and email alerts, and phase.dev for secrets management. Full deployment lifecycle — dev to staging to production — owned solo.

20+ services · Grafana + Prometheus + ELK · Solo ownership

GrafanaPrometheusELKphase.dev
systems

Replaced manual Slack DM approval chains with a structured form → automated approval routing → Finance auto-notification workflow. Zero follow-ups required. Pattern became a template for multiple other internal automations.

AutomationInternal ToolsWorkflow

50+ projects in feasibility at any time, most never converting. Fix: lightweight feasibility format with go/no-go criteria, BA-to-dev handoff templates, and customer sign-off checkpoints before engineering effort began. Less wasted effort, better-aligned solutions.

Process DesignEngineering Management
Contact

Let's talk

I'm currently on a deliberate break — building in public, sharpening my skills, and thinking carefully about what comes next. If something here resonated, I'd genuinely love to hear from you.

What I'm open to