Gokul Alex is a Digital Transformation, Distributed Ledger, Decentralized Finance and Disruptive Innovation expert with deep experience in designing world-class enterprise architectures for Government & Public Sector, Financial Services, Retail, Telecom, Healthcare, Energy & Utility, Electronics, Aerospace, and Defense Industry sectors and building Digital Innovation Labs for Fortune 500 MNCs such as PwC, KPMG, EY, IBM, UST etc. He was also a key member of IBM Innovation Centre, IBM Global Entrepreneurship Program, IBM StartUp Cafe, IBM University Relations, IBM On Demand Community and IBM Digital Transformation Advocacy Program and IBM RedBooks Author Program. He is an IBM Certified IT Architect and IBM Red books Author.He has extensive experiences in designing Hackathons in various flavours and formats such as Techathons, Ideathons, Hackathons, and Datathons and conducted more than 50+ Hackathons. He has been jury member to Hackathons across India. He has mentored more than 20+ Startups and 25+ Social Entrepreneurs through various Incubators and communities. He has designed and deployed one of the first Blockchain Sandbox architecture in India for one of the state Governments. He has also designed one of the first Blockchain Service Network architecture for a state Government in India. He has introduced blockchain protocols such as Algorand, Aeternity, Elixxir, Hashgraph, Horizen, Tezos and ZCash in India. He is the Co-Founder 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 is also guiding blockchain entrepreneurs through the international venture capital platform Blockchain Founders Fund. 
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 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.