Gokul Alex is a Digital Transformation, Data Science, Distributed Ledger, Decentralized Finance and Disruptive Innovation expert with over 20 years of experience in designing world-class enterprise architectures for Government & Public Sector, Financial Services, Retail, Telecom, Healthcare, Energy & Utility, Electronics, Aerospace, and Defence Industry sectors and building Digital Innovation Labs for Fortune 500 MNCs such as PwC, EY, IBM, etc. He has successfully implemented enterprise portals and content management systems across 64 countries across the US, Europe, Asia, Africa and the Middle East. He is the Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer of the award winning technology accelerator and aggregator, Gigamesh Garage Ventures, winner of Aeternity Human DeFi, Baseline, Harmony Horizen, ETH India, ETH Planet, ETH Punk and Cosmos India Hackathons in 2020. He is also the recipient of the Polygon Network Build-N-Earn program. He has also co-founded Semiott Systems, a fairness finance platform built on crypto-economic proof systems and crypto-physics models. He is also guiding blockchain entrepreneurs through the international venture capital platform Blockchain Founders Fund. He is a Subject Matter Expert for VIVIDH, a Blockchain Education Program. He is the founder of Episteme Engineering Ventures, an emerging technology and exponential entrepreneurship-focused non-profit organisation rooted in India.
He has published four patents and authored articles across international magazines and portals. He has authored a Book on Blockchain Security for BPB Publications. He has advised academic institutions such as the University of Kerala, University of Madras, Amity University, Vellore Institute of Technology, Jain University, etc. He has worked with MIT Media Lab on Open Access Algorithms and Quantum Computing. He has introduced blockchain protocols such as Algorand, Aeternity, Elixxir, Hashgraph, Horizen, Tezos and ZCash in India. He is a member of international forums such as Cloud Security Alliance, Enterprise Ethereum Alliance, Wikimedia Foundation, and Hyperledger Foundation. He loves the creative convergence of Programming, Physics, Poetry, Psychology, and Philosophy.
