Aug 2024 – Jan 2025 · 5 mos · Gurugram, Haryana, India · On-site

• https://www.balbix.com/blog/why-i-joined-balbix-bhatia/

Oct 2021 – Aug 2024 · 2 yrs 10 mos

• Leading product development for ShareChat and Moj including Android and iOS application development, backend software development, infrastructure and information security.
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• Some links that showcase the work we have been doing

Jul 2019 – Nov 2021 · 2 yrs 4 mos · Greater Delhi Area

• Auditoria.ai is a Silicon Valley based startup funded by top-tier VCs. Auditoria provides artificial intelligence (AI) driven workflows, automation of business processes, decision support, and algorithmic analytics for corporate finance functions such as AP, AR, Vendor Management and financial planning
• Introducing Auditoria! https://www.linkedin.com/posts/auditoriaai_introducing-auditoria-activity-6658716042870816768-IQFc
• Built product and infrastructure from 0 lines of code to GA in < 2 years with paid customers
• Helped build engineering team from 0 to 20+ members
• True to the startup spirit, I played a hands-on role in setting up AWS infrastructure and technology operations. Configured and secured AWS services (EKS, RDS, ALB), ELK stack and setup security and operations monitoring/alerting
• Led architecture design for customer SLAs and uptime, BC-DR, scaling
• Played cross functional roles including owning security and compliance (SOC2)
• Led setup of Auditoria India Development Center. Responsible for all operational activity including Finance, HR and related processes.
• Represented Auditoria at industry forums and customer meetings
• Key contributor to investor presentations and fundraising activities

Jan 2015 – Jul 2019 · 4 yrs 6 mos

• Palerra (acquired by Oracle) is a Silicon Valley based Security Startup funded by top-tier VCs including Norwest Venture Partners and August Capital. Oracle CASB (LORIC) is an industry leading Cloud Access Security Broker (CASB) that protects and assures security and compliance of cloud applications, resources and sensitive data across Amazon Webservices, Salesforce, Microsoft Office 365, Google Apps and Box.
• The CABS product ingests data from multiple cloud sources and the data is analyzed in a data pipeline including invoking rules based and ML based engines. This is matched with the user’s profile to surface threat analytics and user risk. Technology components include Kafka, Elasticsearch, Apache Cassandra, Spark, Flink
• Responsible for leadership of all aspects of product engineering (development, deployment, CI/CD, Agile processes, customer support)
• Setup Palerra’s India Development Center from scratch. Responsible for all product engineering delivery as well as operational issues (planning, budgeting, financials, HR, real estate, processes)
• Build a top-notch organization of 65+ engineers, senior managers, directors and architects
• Helped successfully integrate Palerra with Oracle post-acquisition including People, Finance and Facilities
• Led innovation and research activities including development of a JVM level method access monitoring solution. Presented this at Oracle CodeOne conference (2018 in San Francisco)
• As a key member of Oracle Startup Cloud Accelerator (OSCA), helped with shortlisting of accelerator companies, mentored multiple startups on technology and product management and development strategy. Presented to startups on best practices to build a successful company

Nov 2012 – Dec 2014 · 2 yrs 1 mo · Gurgaon

• Make My Trip (www.makemytrip.com, NASDAQ: MMYT) is India’s #1 Online Travel Portal. In my role as Head of Engineering for the Hotels, Bus, and Rail Lines of Business:
• Responsible for the end-to-end product design, delivery and deployment of Online Hotels, Bus and Rail customer facing websites (http://www.makemytrip.com/hotels/) and backend supply connectors.
• Built internal technology tools/dashboards/analytics to assist operations and sales teams
• Spearheaded the adoption of Responsive Web Design in the organization which helped improve funnel conversion
• Led cross functional team projects to add personalization capabilities in the MMT offerings
• Led a team of 45+ engineers and helped achieve project team efficiency by adopting Agile Software Development Methodology
• Led development of mobile native apps team on iOS and Android platforms
• Led innovation and experiments around solutions on txtWeb (@mbus: an end to end bus booking flow on SMS and payments using IMPS), missed call for customer support and Hotel Search on Google Glass.
• Presented at industry forums on Agile Methodologies and Cloud Technology Adoption

Feb 2010 – Nov 2012 · 2 yrs 9 mos · Bangalore

• txtWeb (www.txtWeb.com) is an award winning (http://www.prlog.org/11932391-txtweb-wins-two-coveted-awards-for-innovation.html) Two-Side Network Effects Platform with the vision to deliver bite-sized content to billions of users.
• In my role as Head of Engineering for the txtWeb Product:
• Evolved the platform from 0 to 1 million+ active users, 3500+ applications, 100 million SMS requests while maintaining 99.7% uptime and best in industry E2E latency
• Led development of the platform on Amazon Webservices (AWS) stack and pioneered use of cloud technology for scaling and fast deployments within the company
• Lead all aspects of product engineering including product development, quality, deployment, 24x7 ops support, customer support
• Closely partnered with the business team and actively defined product strategy, Go To Market and monetization opportunities, TRAI compliance
• Led an agile and nimble team of superstars based on “Lean Startup Principles” of hypothesize-experiment-measure-kill/amplify. My team’s execution model has been recognized as a role model for other teams within the company
• Led adoption of product with Intuit product suite including QuickBooks Online
• Innovated with and ran successful markets tests with several new technologies including Missed call, Android app, Voice calls
• Worked closely with Intuit Founder, Scott Cook as well our CTO and Senior Management and defined the product evolution and roadmap.
• Evangelized the product in many industry forums through presentations, hackathons and customer presentations
• Led the Campus Hiring Initiative (as part of Great Place to Work Committee) and helped move Intuit’s GPTW Rank from 26th to 8th
• Actively nurtured innovation by mentoring startup teams within the organization, judging and organizing internal contests.
• Awarded prize for “Leadership” at Intuit Annual Awards
• Won the highest and most prestigious "Scott Cook Innovation Award" at Intuit

Jan 2007 – Oct 2009 · 2 yrs 9 mos

• Minekey is a Silicon Valley based VC funded company incubated out of Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kharagpur (http://www.crunchbase.com/company/minekey)
• Responsible for all aspects of product engineering (development, delivery, support) for Minekey's recommendation (http://reco.minekey.com) and discussion network products (http://minekey.com)
• Coordinated research activities for Minekey India Research Center (IRC) based on the IITKGP campus

Oct 2004 – Jan 2007 · 2 yrs 3 mos

• Complete responsibility and ownership for the architecture, development and delivery of the Oracle Access Management product, an enterprise-level Authentication, Authorization and Audit (AAA) solution used by several thousand companies globally to secure their enterprise applications and resources.
• My responsibilities included:
• Manage, inspire and lead a team of 20+ developers based in Redwood Shores, CA and India to ensure development of a world-class software product
• Lead the team in all aspects of the software development lifecycle including project planning, scheduling, resource management, developing the architecture and design, implementation, Quality Assurance, bug tracking and communicating status to senior management
• Advised Oracle management on strategic M&amp;A (Oblix and Phaos) and helped in the technical due diligence process.
• Develop the product strategy and roadmap along with product management and helped understand business drivers for new product features, customer enhancement requests and bug escalations. Worked on competitive analysis and analyst reports and presentations.
• Create partnerships and alliances with other third party security vendors to extend product offering by working closely with business development. Evaluated technology and advised management with vendor recommendations.
• Worked closely with Executive Management and Oracle Global IT teams to rollout product in internal datacenter. Product is responsible for all web-based logins to more than a dozen internal applications and is in use by 50000+ Oracle employees and 4 million+ external users.

Aug 1997 – Oct 2004 · 7 yrs 2 mos

Jun 1996 – Aug 1996 · 2 mos

• Worked on X.400 email gateway integration with Oracle email server
• Worked on Mail Handling Apis for POP, IMAP and SMTP integration

Aug 1995 – Jun 1997 · 1 yr 10 mos

• Assisted in maintaining a pilot deployment of Distributing Computing Environment (DCE) cell for campus computing infrastructure
• Researched security and delegated administration models
• Built prototypes using DCE-RPC, DCE security, Distributed File System
• Presented findings to campus community

May 1995 – Jun 1995 · 1 mo

• Worked on a software prototype for a hand-held atlas to analyze rock and insect samples
• Built software using Visual C++