About

Gopikrishnan R is a highly skilled Software Developer with over 7 years of experience in the design and development of Automation Framework, tools, and automated test content for validating Driver/Firmware flows and features. He has hands-on experience in the design and development of Automation and test architecture, building general-purpose libraries, development of simulation environments, and debug tools. Gopikrishnan has multi-domain experience in Networking (WLAN), Memory, and Graphics and has worked at different levels of Software development cycle. He has debug expertise across multiple features in multiple domains. Currently, Gopikrishnan is working as a GPU Software Development Engineer at Intel as a part of the Windows display Driver team. He is responsible for developing and testing GPU software, including drivers and firmware, and ensuring that they meet the requirements of the Windows operating system. Gopikrishnan has also worked as a Graphics Software Engineer at Intel and as a Senior Engineer, Firmware Engineering at Western Digital. Gopikrishnan holds a Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.) degree in Electronics and Communication Engineering from Mar Athanasius College of Engineering, Kerala, India. He also has a High School/Secondary Certificate Programs degree from De Paul Public School, Thodupuzha, Kerala, and a High School degree from the same school. Gopikrishnan's tech stack includes Software Engineer, test, Python, P2P, Backend, Web, SDET, MySQL, and Mobile. He has relevant experience of 7.27 years in the industry. Gopikrishnan has designed and developed test cases in Python, bash for various feature, stress and performance validation. He has also written many cross-functional test cases for feature verification at the functional level of firmware flows and deployed these into CI runs. Gopikrishnan has a proactive approach to writing automation scripts to assist debugging and helped in writing unittest validation of Firmware during the development.