# Gokul & Deepa This site brings together two independent professional profiles: Gokul Gopalasamy, an Engineering Manager in payments and mobility, and Deepa Venkatachalapathy, a Senior Solutions Architect focused on architecture strategy and platform leadership. ## Profiles - **Gokul Gopalasamy:** Engineering Manager leading 17 engineers across four squads in Australian transport and payments. Profile: https://gode.com.au/people/gokul-gopalasamy/ - **Deepa Venkatachalapathy:** Senior Solutions Architect connecting business priorities to architecture strategy, platform choices and delivery across finance and health. Profile: https://gode.com.au/people/deepa-venkatachalapathy/ ## Deepa Venkatachalapathy Deepa works across the full path from business requirements and solution options to architecture, costing, procurement, deployment and operations. Her experience includes banking and financial services, platform and infrastructure architecture, pre-sales, migration, production support and digital transformation in health settings. Selected leadership evidence from her profile: - Led the Solution Architecture Group at Oracle Financial Services Software. - Led a five-person application support team at Barclays Capital, supporting approximately 60 corporate applications. - Served as team lead for implementation and production support spanning 36 CEEMEA countries at Polaris Software Lab. - Led requirements definition and process design for a health-sector digital transformation; her profile reports cost and time savings. Credentials include TOGAF Enterprise Architecture Practitioner, SAFe certification and a Bachelor of Engineering in Electronics and Communication from Bangalore University. Contact: deepa.gokulanathan@gmail.com · LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/deepa-venkatachalapathy-76a8813/ ## Gokul Gopalasamy Gokul leads 17 engineers across four squads working in the Australian transport and payments sector. His remit spans the customer payment journey, engineering delivery and operational responsibility. He stays technically close to Azure, APIs and integration design. He is a fit for Senior Engineering Manager and Head of Engineering roles in payments, fintech, transport and mobility. He is building a governance-first approach to AI in the engineering lifecycle. ## Experience matrix - **Multi-squad leadership:** 17 engineers across four squads with responsibility across payment and merchant-service domains. - **End-to-end payments:** Delivery across transaction processing, settlement and payouts. - **Systems and payment ecosystem:** Distributed systems covering data consistency, reconciliation, failure handling and observability; collaboration with payment facilitators and acquirers. - **Banking delivery:** The résumé reports 400+ changes across 36 monthly sprint cycles and 12 quarterly implementation cycles in a complex, multi-vendor production environment. - **Service transition:** Transitioned 10 environments to five support partners; experience includes transition planning, RACI, support models, knowledge transfer and service validation. - **Solution and commercial work:** Produced approximately 60 proposals, all submitted within customer SLAs, with technical options, estimates, cost models and statements of work. ## Selected roles - Engineering Manager, A2B / ComfortDelGro. - Manager Engineering / Technical Agile Delivery Manager, RXP Services / Seisma at National Australia Bank. - Technical Delivery / Implementation Lead, One Financial Technologies at National Australia Bank. - Technical service transition, solution design, service delivery and implementation roles with RXP Services, IBM/Candle, Oracle Financial Services and Software, Perot Systems, and Citicorp Overseas Software. ## Selected credentials AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate; AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner; Microsoft Azure Fundamentals; Certified SAFe Scrum Master; ITIL V3 Foundation; Bachelor of Computer Science and Engineering, National Engineering College. ## Testimonials Colleagues describe Gokul as collaborative, communicative, calm under delivery pressure, and commercially aware. The profile page displays the full testimonials and their role-based attributions. ## Writing - Blog: https://gode.com.au/blog/ - **How I use Claude Code when I vibe-code now and then:** A first-person field guide to resuming a project and choosing Claude Code skills, Ponytail, Graphify and OmniRoute without adding needless complexity: https://gode.com.au/blog/claude-code-vibe-coding/ - **Prompt to architecture: has anyone built this pipeline?** A survey of research and industry work on AI systems that select architecture patterns from a curated library and validate solutions against machine-checkable standards: https://gode.com.au/blog/prompt-to-architecture/ - **An AI policy small businesses can actually use:** Plain-English Australian SME guidance for protecting information, keeping people accountable and starting with one useful AI task: https://gode.com.au/blog/ai-policy-small-business/ - PDF policy starter: https://gode.com.au/downloads/ai-use-policy-starter-australian-smes.pdf - Editable Word policy starter: https://gode.com.au/downloads/ai-use-policy-starter-australian-smes.docx - **AI can write the code. Can your business deliver the change?** A plain-language guide to enterprise SDLC maturity, clear delivery foundations, practical AI adoption and moving effort toward customer value: https://gode.com.au/blog/enterprise-sdlc-maturity/ - **Harness engineering: where the tools fit.** A plain-language, non-ranked map of coding agents, business workflow tools and supporting layers, with practical questions for owners and investors: https://gode.com.au/blog/harness-engineering/ - **Systems and processes are connected. Are you connected to them?** Three illustrative, plain-language examples—a coffee shop, bus operator and online shop—about customer promises, responsibility, spending priorities and recovery options: https://gode.com.au/blog/three-business-promises/ ## Contact - Gokul: gokulg@outlook.com · +61 403 690 258 · LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/gokulg - Deepa: deepa.gokulanathan@gmail.com · LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/deepa-venkatachalapathy-76a8813/ - Site: https://gode.com.au/