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I’m Gokul

 

Product | Engineer | Consultant | Athlete 

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About Me
 
Hey there! I'm Gokul. I graduated from the National University of Singapore, School of Engineering, majoring in Industrial Systems Engineering and Management in 2021. I am currently working as an associate product manager at Affinidi (start-up backed by Temasek), where we build technology for the self-sovereign identity ecosystem. Very cool web 3.0 stuff might I add. 

I am a technologist in the field of integration and automation between SaaS and DBs. I'm also passionate about product management and consulting. I'm curious about technology and how it can provide value and help solve pain points. I love to dig into customer problems and provide optimal solutions. Not to mention, I am passionate about personal development, constant learning and looking at the product-market fit of businesses & start-ups. I have interned in NYC and Singapore as a Solutions Consultant and Product Manager at high-growth startups.

I am currently looking for a full-time PM-related job opportunity. Do reach me at r.gokulll.96@gmail.com or Linkedin if you wish to connect
EXPERIENCE

 -ISAAC MARION-

"Every experience, good or bad, is a priceless collector's item."

WORK EXPERIENCE
Aug'21-Present
Associate Product Management
Affinidi, Singapore

Web 3.0 venture invested in by Temasek (Singapore’s Sovereign Fund), builds technology to promote the

growth of Self-Sovereign Identity and Verifiable Credentials (VCs) in different sectors

 

Aug'20-Feb'21 (7 months)
Product Management Intern
Zenyum, Singapore
Consumer-focused healthcare startup, founded in 2018 and funded by Sequoia Capital

 

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Job scope:​

  • Managed the development of an internal warehouse management tool, led to increased visibility and traceability of all inventory and orders for Zenyum’s consumer product across various markets

  • Liaised with internal stakeholders such as the Ops, Finance, Consumer Product team and Developers to iterate the internal tool’s bugs and create roadmaps and led its integration with existing business processes, website and tech stack

  • Engaged in conversation rate optimization of Zenyum’s Website across various markets

  • Created and implemented an agile methodology to test and run experiments based on hypothesis and insights

 

 

Key Takeaways:

It was my first foray into a Product Management role. Being an internal tool PM was definitely challenging and had different complexities as compared to a customer-facing PM or what I learned from Product School. Having full autonomy and control over a product was empowering and taught me the ropes of being a PM alongside delivering a new product. I was also exposed to the e-commerce world and being a website PM and it gave me the opportunity to impose new systems and methodologies

Job scope:​

  • Analyzed clients’ integration and business processes. Through that, I came up with optimal solutions and integration workflows between customers’ tech stacks, enabling users are able to automate their business processes

  • Represented Workato as a technical consultant in Salesforce World Tour NY and Slack/Workday conference

  • Directed in building robust automation architecture for enterprise-grade clients such as Cuebiq, Netscout, Carousel Industries and Media Ocean

  • Spearheaded onboarding and training sessions with clients that lead to a 100% customer success rate and 0% churn rate

  • Conducted pre-sales and post-sales activities as a technical consultant alongside the Sales and Product team that lead to the conversion of leads, adoption and retention of customers

  • Debugged any technical issues by inspecting API calls made by Workato or various SaaS applications

 

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Key Takeaways:

I can talk for days about my experience at Workato. When I started, there was a huge learning curve, learning about SaaS, DBs, OPSa, APIs, business processes and talking to enterprise clients/prospects. Here is where my passion for tech and product blossomed seeing how Workato was able to constantly integrate it's product-market fit and solve customers pains

Jun'19-Aug'20 (15 months)
Solutions Consultant Intern
Workato, New York
Leading Enterprise Automation Platform that enables both business and IT teams to integrate their apps and automate business workflows without compromising security and governance, unicorn startup
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Oct'18-Feb'19 (5 months)
GRIP Program Intern
NUS Industrial Liaison Office

 

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Job scope:

  • Assisted ILO in the NUS Graduate Research Innovation Program (GRIP) to keep up with event, activities and workshops for graduate researchers who are building up their own start-up under the GRIP accelerator program

  • Helped facilitate a new venture creation and business validation program and be exposed to how deep-tech start-ups are formed and how their start-ups have grown and scaled since the beginning of the accelerator program

  • Managed the Q&A session when these start-ups pitched to VCs and investors during the demo day

 

 

Key Takeaways:

It was my first time being exposed to a deep-tech new venture creation process. I was given the opportunity to learn about how start-ups ideate, prototyped, patented their technology and came up with their business models. Prior to this internship, terms like  “funding”, “pitching” and “prototyping” were just used freely daily, before I got to see it first hand. I was also part of their demonstration day where 20 deep-tech start-ups in the program pitched to investors and VCs for fundings ranging from 250k-1million. It was truly an eye-opening experience for me.

Job scope:

  • Designed International Standards Organization (ISO) reports for clients such that it succeeded in meeting their expectations and the standards set

  • Communicated with clients to improve on the reports provided and ensure it was beyond satisfactory

  • Proposed and incorporated various automation systems to improve operations within the start-up such as macros and shortcuts

 

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Key Takeaways:

The 2 month internship I had at  R STAR was my first time working for a small company with 4-5 people, and the team dynamics were very different. I was tasked with jobs aside from my initial job scope. Throughout the 2 months period, it dawned on me that the current processes were relatively outdated. Keeping this in mind, I introduced macros to their workflow, enhancing work effectiveness for my colleagues. I realized with automation, it was a short term pain for long term gain. It made me realize how automation helps companies develop a more efficient and effective work process, saving time and manpower which remains vital for start-ups. Through this internship, I understood that even during my 'free time' in work I can continuously try to improve and innovate beyond my tasks

May'18-Jun'19 (2months)
Operations Intern
R Star Consultants Private Limited
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Jul'16-March'17 (8months)
Operations & Training Sergeant
Singapore Armed Forces, 1st Transport Battalion HQ company
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Job scope:

  • Developed exceptional problem-solving skills to ensure every individual within the battalion (about 1000 soldiers) meet their training requirements

  • Efficient knowledge of Microsoft office to ensure that Battalions’ activities, programs and individuals are monitored

  • Analyzed data and provided foresight and trends for Battalion usage using MS Excel

  • Awarded the RSM Coin and Best Section Coin for my outstanding performance and conduct

 

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Key Takeaways:

It was my first proper "office" working environment, working with peers, understudies, upper studies and bosses. The role was demanding and came with a lot of responsibilities and pressure. I understood how powerful MS excel was when needed to plan, track and forecast data of 1000 soldiers. The experience instilled a strong sense of discipline within me as I had to report and manage the company of soldiers daily while also doing my administrative work. I witnessed and learnt from the management style of high-ranking officers like army Majors and Lieutenant Colonels. I understood the relevance and importance of my role to the Battalion as I had to lead by example. Given these circumstances, I had to work diligently throughout the eight months. Thankfully, my efforts were recognized by my superiors and I was awarded a coin for my excellent conduct and behavior. I was really proud of my work and impact within the battalion. It was truly a sense of achievement.

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 -nelson mandela-

"Education is the most powerful weapon we can use to change the world.""

EDUCATION
EDUCATION

National University of Singapore, Singapore

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Aug'17-Present
Bachelor's Degree

BEng(Honours) in Industrial Systems Engineering & Management, 

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Aug'19-Jul'20
NCNY,12

Internship program where selected candidates work at a tech startup at a preferred overseas location. NOC students are full-time interns and part-time students

Took entrepreneurship-related modules at New York University (NYU) and NUS while also participating in various hackathons, tech talks and entrepreneurship-related events

 

NUS Overseas College, New York City Batch 12

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New York University, USA

Jan'20-May'20
Tandon School of Engineering 

Took MG-GY 7703 Entrepreneurship, under the Department of Technology Management & Innovation

 

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Jul'18-Aug'18
Summer School Exchange Program

Took modules is Project Management, Accounting for Decision Makers and Organizational Behaviour

 

Hanyang University, South Korea

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Innova Junior College, Singapore

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Jan'13-Dec'14
High School

Singapore-Cambridge General Certificate of Education Advanced Level

 

Modules Taken
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Engineering

These courses developed my problem-solving skills, which enables me to apply fundamental engineering concepts, build prototypes and develop iterative solutions.

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  • Quality Engineering I

  • Engineering Economy

  • Human Factors Engineering​

  • Operations Research 1

  • Systems Design Project

  • Simulation

  • Supply Chain Modeling

  • Modelling & Analytics

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Systems & Programming

These courses have empowered me with a systems perspective and an understanding of algorithms, which allows me to implement techniques such as optimization and simulation.

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  • Industrial & Systems Engineering Principles & Practice 1

  • Industrial & Systems Engineering Principles & Practice 2

  • Programming Methodology

  • Learning From Data

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Business & Management

These courses have equipped me with the skills and knowledge to understand and execute business organisation, planning and decisions.

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  • Critical Thinking and Writing

  • Project Management

  • Accounting for Decision Makers

  • Organizational Behaviour

  • Technological Innovation

  • Global Economics Dimensions of Singapore

  • Lean Startup - Market Validation

  • Startup Case Study & Analysis

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Mathematics & Statistics

These courses developed my cognitive ability where complex problems and concepts are formulated, quantified and analyzed

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  • Mathematics I

  • Linear Algebra for Engineering

  • Probability and Statistics

  • Probability Models with Application

  • Statistics for Engineering Applications

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"I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious"

SKILLS
PROJECTS
PROJECTS
PROJECTS
Extracurricular Activities & Leadership & Awards​

Awards & Scholarships

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1. Best Use of Google Cloud at HackNYU 2020

more info found in the Projects Section

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2. Temasek Foundation International Scholarship

Scholarship recipient to attend the two weeks NUS Enterprise Summer Programme on Entrepreneurship costing $3,000 for free. Along with other international and ASEAN students, recipients would attend events, lectures, talks, field visits and activities to look at the start-up ecosystem in Singapore and SEA

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3. RSM Coin

Awarded to the most outstanding sergeant within 1st TPT Battalion. Coin and plaque was presented as a testament to one's leadership ability, intellectual prowess and mature character

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4. Best Section Coin

Awarded to the best group of specialist cadets for their exceptional conduct and performance during their F02-15/16 Specialist Cadet Course (Logistics)

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AUG'17 - Present

National University of Singapore

House Head

For Temasek hall exposure camp

- lead  60+ ogls and freshmen

Awards

-Gold medal in Inter-Faculty Games (Soccer)

- 2nd runner-up for Great Eastern Amateur League (Soccer)

-"Mr Dapper" in Bash (pageant)

Founder/ Product development

ArtisTree - social enterprise founded in Aug'18, affiliated with Social Impact Catalyst NUS

Member of  Social Impact Catalyst, SG

Entails entrepreneurship training and a personal start-up advisor attached to us

Jan'13 - Dec'14

Innova Junior Junior College (High School)

Class Chairperson

managed my high school class of 30 students while handling any administrative, personal issues and planning events

Vice-Captain

Soccer - co-lead the team consisting of 25 individuals in various competitions

Marketing Executive

 Strategized ways to package Temasek hall and negotiate with companies to sponsor our events by provided collaterals

Member

- Open House Committee

- Block Committee

-Soccer

-Bash (pageant)

-Dance

-Road Relay

Orientation group leader

Helped in facilitating and planning for the freshmen orientation camp

-Engineering Camp

-ISEM Camp

Orientation group leader

Helped in facilitating and planning for the freshmen orientation camp

HackNYU2020

Winner: Best Use of Google Cloud

Teamed up with 3 others to create a mobile application that facilitates and tracks the borrowing, returning and donating reusable shopping bags among the NYU student community.

We won the "Best use of Google Cloud" category as well as a Google Home Mini. Our team set up the developer environment using Github and we used ReactNative to build the mobile application. Furthermore, we did our coding using JavaScript and used Firebase for authentication and created a database. Lastly, for mapping and routing, we pulled them from MaTeampBox AP

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SKILLS

Python (regression, support vector machine, decision trees, feature engineering, deep learning, and reinforcement learning)

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90%

BI tools (Tableau & Data studio)

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70%

R

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40%

HTML & CSS

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40%

SQL

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70%

Others

SaaS APIs, HTTP request, integration tools, Salesforce, Google Analytics, Datastudio, Jira, Workday, Confluence, HTML, CSS, wide exposure to various tech stacks/SaaS, DBs and OPAs (from automation consultant)

Product Management

Project Management

Operation Management

Integration

Data Visualization

Automation

Data Analysis

Data Visualization

Solution Consulting

APIs

AWARDS
TESTIMONIALS

“Gokul has a pleasant and friendly disposition. He has the qualities of leadership, academic competence, discipline and good ability to work with people, initiative and reliability, which will stand him in a good stead in any organization”

 

WHAT OTHERS HAVE TO SAY ABOUT ME

—  Christopher Yap, Ph.D

Resident Fellow, Temasek Hall

Associate Professor, Dept of Mechanical Engineering, NUS

CERTS
Certifications​
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Product Management Certification

Product School, NY

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NUS Overseas College, NY

NUS & NYU Tandon School of Engineering

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Intro to Web App Development

Smartcademy

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Data Analytics with Python

Hackwagon Academy

CONTACT
Interests
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Sports

- Huge Liverpool FC fan (YNWA)

- Football/Soccer

- Basketball

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Media

- Movies (ones that have twist endings hahaha)

- Shows - B99, GOT and many more

- Hip Hop/R&B Music

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Activities

- Anything Outdoors (Hiking, Surfing, Running)

- Eating Good Food......

 

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