Curriculum Vitae of Abhilash Gopalakrishnan

Solution Architect and Technology Management professional with 10+ years’ in leading research, development and implementation of products and systems with passion for solution architecture, customer experience and quality. Expert in formulating architecture vision, strategy and roadmap with focus on Innovation. Software Engineering expert and mentor guiding cross-functional teams towards common goals. Lifelong learner excelling in blending technologies and trends like Cloud, DevOps, IoT and Analytics to deliver customer value. Possess deep know-how of Industrial Automation. Have background in domains of Logistics, CRM, Retail. Possess sound judgment and assessment skills coupled with knowledge of frameworks – TOGAF, SAFE. Possess excellent stakeholder management and communication skills.

Accomplishments

• Successfully Architected solutions for more than 5 products or solutions.
• Led global development team across 10+ project life cycles.
• Defined and led adoption of platform development in Scaled Agile approach.
• Created new solutions applying Data Analytics, Cloud and AI, building on Digital Twin/Services concept
• Innovative solution efforts resulted in 7 patent applications including areas of AI/ML and 10 publications.

Professional Experience

Principal Engineer @ ABB (2005-Till Date)

Incubated, architected digital platform project for Distribution Automation from initial vision to architecture runway development and delivery. Led 17-members in building web-based product life cycle tool, engineering tool and embedded software. Quality approach using continuous integration with testing. Piloted digital product and system services on Azure Cloud and microservices with Python, C# .NET and PGSQL.

• Envisioned and guided architecture to follow evolutionary principles with tools to govern technical debt.
• Led adoption of Scaled Agile with design guidelines and delivery pipeline using Jenkins to deliver 3-month release.
• Guided Test strategy to approach using Robotic Process Automation using Robot Framework.
• Designed and Piloted Root cause analysis of faults using Bayesian Belief Networks with Azure Cloud (SaaS).

Associate Principal Engineer @ ABB

Formulated vision and road map and architected Microgrid consulting tools - offline and web subsystems, applying RESTful architecture and .NET and WCF, SQL Server and Entity Framework.

• Architected, planned and deployed Global Microgrid Consulting Tools enabling faster consulting turnaround time.
• Piloted feature extraction and Support Vector Machine Analytics for engineering.
• Guided solution for Cyber Security vulnerability in controller and fixing it leading to faster release.

Technical Manager and Technical Specialist @ ABB

• Architected and delivered APIs for cyber security in C++ and .NET for Role Based Access Control.
• Supported Engineering Tools, for Intellectual Property Strategy to protect solutions and improved customer value.
• Architected, managed project and delivered framework for Connectivity Packages in .NET, C#, SQL Server.
• Piloted Continuous Integration. Modularity resulted in six different device connectivity built on the framework.
• Led Integrated testing tool for digital data analysis for substation automation and demo at Hannover Fair.

Systems Analyst @ LG CNS Global (2004-2005)

• Technical Lead for Search module applying design patterns strategy, factory, provider, providing services to BBC The Motion Gallery web pages in C# and ASP.NET.
• Special appreciation from client for design and development on AutonomyProvider.

Associate @ Cognizant Technology Solutions (2003- 2004)

Led and participated in projects across domains of insurance, retail and travel applying .NET technologies.

• Use case Modeling and Realizations in ADP project involving extensive usage of UML.
• Team Lead for Schwan’s Mainframe elimination using .NET, SQL Server and Web Services (SOA) with SOAP.
• Database management for MetLife using SQL Server optimizing and planning queries and effective methods.
• Travel Application and Installation Maintenance for Travelport using ASP.NET Web Services and InstallShield.

Developer @ BNS Solutions (2003-2003)

• Module Lead for User Management in Logistics Product onWareHouse using VB.NET and SQL Server.
• Involved in .NET Remoting for diagnostics in onWareHouse and deployment using Wise Installer.
• Visited Germany and obtained knowledge of OnCRM solution.

Quite Active in Conferences and Publications. Also active in GitHub. Additional Experiences as Software Engineer at Lucid Technologies and Time Technologies.

Technical Proficiency

• Tools and Frameworks: Enterprise Architect - UML, .NET 4.6, .NET Core, Flask, Django, Robot Framework, WCF, ASP.NET Core, Web API.
• Web Servers & Frameworks: HTML, CSS, JavaScript, jQuery, AJAX, IIS, Apache, D3.js, Angular.
• Programming Languages: C, C++, C#, Python.
• Service Architecture Styles: SOA, RESTful, Microservices.
• Databases: PostgreSQL 9.2, MySQL, SQLite, SQL Server 2012.
• Cloud Services: Microsoft Azure, Docker.
• Source Control & CI Tools: TFS, Git, Jenkins.
• Deployment Tools: InstallShield, Wise Installer.
• Project Plan & Documentation: Microsoft Project, LaTeX, Doxygen, Word, PowerPoint, Excel.
• Operating System: Linux Ubuntu 16.04, Windows 7-10, 2012 Server.
• Architecture Frameworks: TOGAF, Systems Engineering, SAFE.

Education and Certification

• Professional Certificate - Architecture and Systems Engineering from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), MIT Professional Education
• Masters in Software Systems from Birla Institute of Technology and Science (BITS), Pilani, India
• Bachelor of Engineering in Mechanical Engineering, from Bharathiyar University, Coimbatore, India.

Granted Patents & Recognition

• US Patent No: 10095923, Method and System for Configuring Devices of a Control System based on Engineering Graphic Objects
• European Patent -EP2831682 (B1), A Method for Engineering A Distributed Control System
• US Patent No: 8983820, A Method and a System for Simulation in a Substation
• Mentor & Jury, Smart India Hackathon 2019
• Keynote Speaker, China HMI & UX/UI Summit, Shanghai, China, Nov 2018
• Platinum Award, Architectural Leadership ABB, 2011

Patent Applications

• 1. A Method for Configuring an Intelligent Electronic Device and a System thereof. Filed 2019.
• 2. A System and Method for Failure Detection, Recovery, And Recommend Actions For Power System Relays, Filed 2019.
• 3. PCT/IB2018/060336, An Augmented Intelligent Electronic Device and Diagnostic Operation therefrom.

Publications

• 1. Abhilash Gopalakrishnan, “Quiver- An Intelligent Decision Support System for Software Architecture and Design”, IEEE SmartTechCon, Bangalore, Aug 2017.
• 2. Theodosia Thomas, Abhilash Gopalakrishnan, “Co-Design Applied: Design of Open Hardware based Human Machine Interface”, ICCES 2017, Coimbatore, India.
• 3. Jan Olaf Blech, Lasith Fernando, Keith Foster, Abhilash Gopalakrishnan, Sudarsan S.D, “Spatio-temporal Reasoning and Decision Support for Smart Energy Systems”, IEEE ETFA, Berlin, Sept 2016.
• 4. Abhilash Gopalakrishnan, Abhinna Chandra Biswal, “Applications of Emerging Communication Trends in Automation”, IEEE ICPS, New Delhi, March 2016.
• 5. Abhilash Gopalakrishnan, “Improving Decision Making and Reuse in Software Architectures using Domain Specific Software Architectures” in IEEE CONECCT, Bangalore, India, July 2015.
• 6. Abhilash Gopalakrishnan, Jithin KP, Abhinna Chandra Biswal “Industrial Automation System on Device (IndASoD) -A Device Modeling Industrial Automation Scenarios” in IEEE India Conference (INDICON 2014), Pune, India, Dec 2014.
• 7. Arun Parmar, Jonathan G, Mini TT, Abhilash G, Abhinna Chandra Biswal, “ Multi-agent Approach for Anomaly Detection in Automation Networks” in International Conference On Circuits, Control, Communication And Computing(I4C-2014), Bangalore, India, Nov 2014.
• 8. Abhilash Gopalakrishnan, Abhinna Chandra Biswal “Animated Operational Scenarios for Microgrid Systems using Scenario Visualization and Simulation Tools” in IEEE GHTC - South Asia Satellite, Trivandrum, Kerala, Sept 2014.
• 9. Abhilash Gopalakrishnan, Abhinna Chandra Biswal, “Software Based Assistive Systems In Engineering Education” in IEEE GHTC - South Asia Satellite, Trivandrum, Kerala, August 2013.
• 10. Ashoka S Shyamaprasad, Abhilash G., Abhinna Chandra Biswal, “Requirements Engineering in Substation Automation using Simulation Platform” in Recent Advances in Communication, Control and Computing Technology, Surat, Gujarat, March 2012.
• 11. Masters Thesis : Quiver-A Decision Support System for Software Engineering.