Education & Professional Experience

Gopal has studied at San Jose State University in Management Information Systems, General between 2004 and 2006, then at The National Institute Of Engineering, Mysore in Electrical, Electronics and Communications Engineering between 1988 and 1992, then at University of Mysore in Electronics and Communication Engineering between 1988 and 1992, then at ITIL Certification in IT Management between 2009 and 2009.

Gopal worked for Rakuten Rewards as EVP Engineering / Chief Information Officer and CISO between Feb 2013 and Dec 2019, for Avast as VP, Chief Architect between Jun 2011 and Jan 2013, for Electronic Arts (EA) as Sr. Architect, Online Gaming Architecture between Nov 2008 and Jul 2011, for eBay as Sr. Architect, Ebay Search between Aug 2003 and Nov 2008, for Applied Materials as Sr. Technology Consultant (through Taos) between Nov 1996 and Aug 2003, for Taos as Technology Consultant at Applied Materials Inc. between 1996 and Aug 2003, for Sun Microsystems Inc. as Sr. Systems Engineer between Jul 1996 and Nov 1996, for Motorola Inc. as Systems and Network Engineer between Mar 1996 and Jul 1996, for Tata Consultancy Services as IT and Operations Engineer between Nov 1992 and Mar 1996.

 Skills & Competences

Gopal has the following skills : C, IT Strategy, Perl, Software Development, Architectures, Mobile Devices, Product Management, Requirements Analysis, E-commerce, Enterprise Architecture, ITIL, XML, Agile Methodologies, Software Project Management, Enterprise Software, Architecture, Unix, Linux, C++, Cloud Computing.