Gokul M C

Founder & CEO, tactyle — product and platform leader, hardware to cloud

Singapore · i@gokulmc.com · linkedin.com/in/gokulmc · github.com/gokulmc · gokulmc.com

Summary

Product and platform leader who has owned hardware-plus-software products end to end since 2019 and shipped at every layer of a fleet of physical devices: space-qualified power electronics in service on 13 GSAT satellites (ISRO), a contactless sensor-mat vitals product he ran as Head of Technology and then CEO (BluSim), a DSO-funded PhD applying cloud computing to radar signal processing (NUS), and now tactyle — custom player hardware plus Tact and Stage: deploy content to screens across India, watch live device status on one map, control them remotely, report real impression metrics. Ran USD 1.4M of technology programs and convened a flight-hardware test-review committee. Comfortable leading a technical design review and writing the spec for it.

Experience

• Own the product end to end for a distributed fleet of physical displays: Tact (campaign management — upload creative, pick screens on a live map, deploy, track real impression metrics) and Stage (fleet ops console — live device status across India, 7-step install wizard, real remote control).
• Designed and manufactured the custom player hardware for reliability in retail and outdoor environments, integrated with the Tact CMS.
• Platform on AWS serverless (Lambda, S3, CloudFront, DynamoDB, Cognito) with Next.js, NestJS, TypeScript; AI-assisted build workflow.

• Owned the company and its technology end to end: contactless continuous vitals monitoring for elderly care — sensor mat, proprietary algorithms, and the monitoring application for heart rate, respiration, sleep pattern, bed position, and presence; intrusive and non-intrusive variants.

• Cloud-computing methodologies for radar signal processing, funded by DSO Singapore; published in reputed journals and conferences.
• Co-founded QSignage, a DOOH ad-tech startup, through the NUS GRIP program — GRIP-funded; the venture tactyle grew out of.

• Designed, developed, and tested the power processing unit (PPCU) for SPT electric-propulsion thrusters flying NSSK and orbit-raising on 13 GSAT satellites in service; 1-hour continuous integrated firing with the thruster; 90% efficiency on a 1.6/3.3 kW switchable ZVS module.
• Built a 37 kW BLDC driver for fuel/oxidizer pumps at 40,000 RPM — FPGA control, MIL-STD-1553, plume-shadow thermal design.
• PHMS health monitoring for human-rating the launch vehicle — Simulink regulator model on a DSP F2812.
• Developed self-healing circuits that repair open PCB faults via dielectrophoresis copper bridges, with an automated PCI-GPIB test rig.
• Convener, Test Results Review Committee (flight-hardware test review); project-managed three technology-development projects worth a combined USD 1.4M.

Education

• Specialization in Microelectronics; Minor at the Industrial Design Centre (IDC).

Skills

• Product & platform — fleet management for distributed hardware, customer-facing dashboards and remote control, hardware+software product ownership, specs and design reviews, program budgets
• Hardware & embedded — space-qualified ZVS converters, DC/DC and power distribution, BLDC drives, FPGA/Verilog, DSP, MIL-STD-1553, nRF52832, EasyEDA, MATLAB/Simulink, automated test rigs
• Software & cloud — TypeScript/Node, Python, C/C++, Swift/AppKit, Next.js, NestJS, AWS serverless (Lambda, S3, CloudFront, DynamoDB, Cognito), Leaflet
• Data & ML — radar signal processing on cloud infrastructure, PyTorch, YOLO, AI-assisted development (MCP)

Leadership

• President, NUS Graduate Students' Society — team 16→75, events 8→60; Students' Life Award (Leadership); 14+ collaborations (Yale-NUS, NTU, SUTD, 60+ companies); giving.sg fundraiser exceeding USD 1M.
• Joint Secretary, Tamil Cultural Association, IIT Bombay — managed funds for cultural and sports events for 500+ people.

Ventures

• Miltek (2019) — co-founded with fellow ex-ISRO engineers: high-reliability deep-tech hardware and software for India's private engineering sector.
• Blugraph (2020) — early-stage technology venture, BluGraph Technologies.
• Cornucopia (2021) — regenerative-agriculture biofertilizers, grown out of sensor-network work optimizing vertical farms.

Appendix — Products Shipped

13 live in production · 9 macOS apps shipped — designed, built, and operated end to end with AI-assisted workflows. Selected products:

• Stage — fleet operations console: every device on one living map, live status, remote control.
• Tact — campaign management for physical LED displays: upload, target, deploy, measure.
• fork.ai — branching AI research workspace: ask once, branch forever.
• fork ai code — plan-first, GUI-based AI coding-agent workspace.
• Relay — one-click routing of Claude Code between Anthropic and DeepSeek.
• Truss — guided home-build tracker for Tamil Nadu.

Full portfolio →