Kartik Gopal is a highly skilled technical pre-sales leader with a people-oriented approach to providing IT solutions. With years of experience in app-dev, DevOps, data centers, and cloud technologies, he has built extensive expertise in various areas of IT, enabling him to design and implement holistic and efficient enterprise solutions. Gopal has a master's degree in computer engineering and has studied and worked in various educational institutions and organizations, including the University of Minnesota, SBOA School & Junior College, and Boston Scientific. His experience has seen him work in organizations such as Accenture, Intel Corporation, and currently, IBM, where he is a senior Red Hat cloud solutions architect. He is a consummate team player with a no-job-beneath-me attitude and the ability to lead, mentor and guide teams. His subject matter expertise includes Kubernetes/Openshift, Ansible, RHEV, AWS/GCP/Azure.