L. Gopalakrishnan
Director - Platform Technologies Group,
Oracle India Development Centre, Bangalore.

A B.Tech in Electronics from Madras Institute of Technology, Chennai, Gopal has been with Oracle India for more than seven years. He has 17 years of software development experience, with over five years in Linux related development. As Director for Platform Technologies Group, Gopal is responsible for all aspects of the Indian operations of this division. This includes the three key areas of Platform Engineering, Systems Engineering and Services Engineering. Oracle's outsourcing business, making Oracle products available on all enterprise platforms and looking at Oracle-Linux combination are among the primary areas of operations for his division.

Before joining Oracle India, Gopal worked with Systime Computer Systems (India) Private Ltd for nine years. At Systime, he held various positions -starting as a programmer, growing to a systems analyst and then to a project manager. At Systime his responsibilities included handling projects for clients both in India and abroad. He was in charge of developing the offshore development model for the company and handled project management, implementation and support. Gopal has also worked with International Software India Limited as a software engineer for one year where he was responsible for project execution.

Gopal can answer all your queries related to Open Source, Linux, Oracle-Linux combination, making Oracle products work on enterprise platforms and more.