Gokul Vijayakumar

CTO

Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India14 yrs 7 mos experience

Key Highlights

15 years of expertise in FinTech engineering leadership.
Proven track record in building scalable SaaS platforms.
Strong background in financial instruments and advisory.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a FinTech engineering leader with expertise in scalable SaaS solutions.

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Skills

Core Skills

MicroservicesReact NativeJavaBig Data AnalyticsFinancial AdvisoryCi/cd

Other Skills

DuckdbPostgreSQLgRPCSpring BootRESTful WebServicesApache KafkaTest AutomationMongoDBReact.jsAgile Project ManagementContinuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (CI/CD)Representational State Transfer (REST)J2EEBig DataK8s

About

Seasoned Senior Engineering leader specializing in FinTech, leading dynamic teams to craft secure, scalable and cloud-agnostic SaaS platforms. With 15 years of expertise in Java, J2EE, Big Data, K8s, AWS, React, Moblie app technologies like React Native and Restful web services, I'm dedicated to nurturing startup-like environments and delivering customer-centric solutions. MBA holder with a strong affinity with financial instruments—stocks, bonds, lending and collections. Passionate about innovating impactful FinTech solutions that empower economic aspirations.

Experience

14 yrs 7 mos

Total Experience

2 yrs 4 mos

Average Tenure

1 yr 7 mos

Current Experience

Yubi markets

Engineering Leader

Jan 2026 – Present · 4 mos · Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India

Yubi

2 roles

Senior Engineering Manager

Promoted

Oct 2024 – Present · 1 yr 7 mos

React NativeDuckdbPostgreSQLgRPCSpring BootMicroservices+3

Engineering Manager

Dec 2022 – Oct 2024 · 1 yr 10 mos

MicroservicesJavaMongoDBReact.jsAgile Project Management

Yucollect

Head of Engineering

Jul 2024 – Dec 2025 · 1 yr 5 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Dhanam ventures

Director of Engineering

Nov 2021 – Dec 2022 · 1 yr 1 mo · Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, India

Robo's advisory service for financial planning and investments helps you get financially educated and meet your life goals peacefully. Provides help on Insurance, Taxation, Investments, and Retirement planning.

Big Data AnalyticsMicroservicesFinancial Advisory

Paypal

3 roles

Consultant

Jun 2020 – Nov 2021 · 1 yr 5 mos

Privacy scan product is a modularised, and containerised platform to find personal identifiable information in all data sources. It's built on an open-source stack and uses micro-service architecture which makes the platform easily scalable and deployable on-premises or as any cloud-native application.

Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (CI/CD)MicroservicesRepresentational State Transfer (REST)CI/CD

Consultant

Jul 2017 – Jun 2020 · 2 yrs 11 mos

Transaction invokes compliance component when a send money transaction happens between Users and during checkout from merchant site. Regulatory requirement is to perform watchlist scan on all PayPal transactions in real time before completion, if any of transaction parameters match with watchlist, put transaction in pending and queue it for compliance agent for manual investigation. If the transaction used for terrorist financing then seize the money and report to OFAC.

Microservices

Consultant

Dec 2015 – Jul 2017 · 1 yr 7 mos

Case Management System empowers organisations to make risk-based decisions faster and more accurately, enabling rapid identification and response to the highest priority fraud and compliance threats. Financial crime investigators face increasing volume of alerts generated by a wide range of compliance and fraud systems and this application gives the complete picture to the investigator.

Hcltech

Software Engineer

May 2014 – Dec 2015 · 1 yr 7 mos · Chennai Area, India

UBS Forex trading platform used by institutional investors across Cash, Derivatives, Algo execution strategies and Precious Metals for efficient currency execution. FX Option Trader makes it easy to price and execute option deals online, as well as simultaneously view multiple strategies. Making comparisons quicker and conclusions simpler.

Cognizant

Programmer

Oct 2011 – May 2014 · 2 yrs 7 mos · Coimbatore Area, India

Agent Toolkit is a proposed system in order for the Agents/Brokers to maintain the leads (potential customers) and view/update the quotes and proposals based on the information available in Siebel. The idea is to use it as a back office tool that agents will use for generating proposals, send emails to leads and to view reports via Agent Dashboards. It also would help the agents to maintain and use email campaigns in order to contact the leads electronically.