Intro
My name is Gokul Menon and I work as a Software Engineer at Facebook Meta in the New York office and have over 14 years of software development and engineering experience building enterprise software. You can read about some of the work my team and I are doing here and an episode of hackerrank radio podcasts series here . I am a full stack developer mostly focussed on backend. Before Facebook Meta I worked in fintech building things like electronic trading systems and algorithmic trading platforms.
I am passionate about all things Computer Science , Football, Astronomy & Astrophotography. I also love to paint acrylic over canvas panels, play video games, travel, love to read both fiction and non fiction books and lastly I am ardent Manchester United Fan. They say you can change your city, your country, change your religion but you never change your football club.
This website is a pet project and I plan to use it as a scratch pad to learn cool web technologies, hack and glue together arbitrary pieces of code to make a simple static homepage. I plan to keep this website purely static and keep it simple. It is running on google app engine platform with a standard node js environment, running on nextJs and react. It uses a template designed by HTML5 UP and released for free under the Creative Commons license.
This version is a full rewrite from an old version which was using the web.py python web framework and jinja2 templating engine also running on google app engine using the python standard environment. I plan to put up the source code on github as a template for anyone else to use for their own personal website very soon.