Gopakumar Thekkedath is Co-founder and CTO of SecurWeave Research Labs, where he leads the design of embedded hypervisors and trusted computing platforms for safety- and security-critical systems. Over the past 25 years, he has worked extensively on virtualization, operating systems, BSPs, firmware, and hardware-assisted security, with previous leadership roles at NVIDIA, FireEye, Ericsson, NetApp etc.
His experience spans both security hypervisors for cyber defence and embedded separation hypervisors for safety-critical systems, giving him a unique perspective on the convergence of safety and security in modern embedded architectures. He has contributed to the FreeBSD bhyve hypervisor and holds multiple patents in virtualization and PCI Express technologies