Manjunath (Manju) Bhat

CEO

Sydney, New South Wales, Australia25 yrs 7 mos experience
Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

  • Expert in AI applications in software engineering.
  • Built VMware AirWatch India operations from scratch.
  • Holds multiple patents in emerging technologies.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS expert with a strong focus on AI and software engineering.

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Skills

Core Skills

Artificial Intelligence (ai)DevopsSoftware EngineeringCloud ApplicationsProduct DevelopmentProject Management

Other Skills

Open-Source SoftwareSystem ArchitectureDistributed SystemsAgile MethodologiesTaking Responsibility for overall quality of deliverablesSoftware DevelopmentJavaAndroidChoosing the right tool for the job to lower the TCOC#Enterprise MobilityMicrosoft SQL ServerEnterprise SoftwareProduct Road MappingPresentations

About

Manjunath (Manju) Bhat is a Distinguished Research VP and Gartner Fellow. Mr. Bhat advises clients on a range of software engineering, AI engineering, security engineering and platform engineering challenges. With 25 years of living and breathing emerging technologies, I have a good sense for what's here to stay. Having seen multiple technology ebbs and flows, can identify false starts and spot what is flat-out BS. I feel blessed to be part of the tech industry. Check out my USPTO patent portfolio at https://patents.google.com/?inventor=Manjunath+Bhat&assignee=airwatch&oq=inventor:(Manjunath+Bhat)+airwatch Adept at building and leading R&D teams from the ground-up. Had the opportunity to build the VMware AirWatch India operations as its first employee and tasked with the enviable job of building a world-class R&D organization from scratch. AirWatch was acquired by VMware in 2014. Prior to that, graduated from developer to architect of scalable,fault-tolerant,load-balanced, high volume, mission-critical transactional systems. Responsible for the technical architecture of a heavily customized implementation of warehouse automation software that powered one of the world's biggest warehouses for AVON in 2009. Subject Matter expert in applying AI to software engineering, DevOps, cloud automation, software development and open-source software. Past experience in building endpoint management and warehouse automation software.

Experience

Gartner

4 roles

Distinguished VP (Analyst) and Gartner Fellow

Apr 2025Present · 11 mos

  • My research is focused on two aspects of AI - AI in the traditional SDLC and building AI capabilities in intelligent applications.

VP Analyst and Gartner Fellow

Promoted

Apr 2024Aug 2025 · 1 yr 4 mos

Research VP

Apr 2021Apr 2024 · 3 yrs

Open-Source SoftwareDevOpsSystem ArchitectureArtificial Intelligence (AI)Distributed SystemsAgile Methodologies

Research Director (Analyst)

Sep 2015Apr 2021 · 5 yrs 7 mos

  • Passionate and conversant about all aspects of technology and innovation. My research areas span Software engineering technologies, AI, DevOps, SRE, Cloud, Infrastructure automation and Open source software.
  • Equally comfortable talking to technology providers and end user organizations. My list of technology patents.
Open-Source SoftwareDevOpsSoftware EngineeringArtificial Intelligence (AI)Cloud ApplicationsTaking Responsibility for overall quality of deliverables+3

Vmware workspace one

3 roles

Senior Director, R&D

Jun 2015Sep 2015 · 3 mos

  • Identifying strategic partnerships in the APAC region for growing the AirWatch brand.
  • Liaise with Sales and Pre-sales engineering team and lead CXO level discussions around mobile transformation. (With leading banks of India and other IT MNCs)
  • Leverage India office as a strategic investment to drive business value, in increased sales (cross selling, upselling, proposal management)
  • Competitive Analysis
JavaOpen-Source SoftwareSoftware EngineeringCloud ApplicationsTaking Responsibility for overall quality of deliverablesDistributed Systems+8

Director, R&D

Promoted

May 2013Jun 2015 · 2 yrs 1 mo

  • Instrumental in the growth of AirWatch India office from zero to 300 in less than 4 years.
  • Domain - Enterprise Mobility Management - MDM, MAM, MCM, MEM, MTM (alphabet soup)
  • Product Development and Management
  • Responsible for the R&D team out of AirWatch India - recruitment (campus and lateral), program management, web and mobile application development - essentially end to end delivery.
  • Key areas of interest include - recruitment (technical), product development, innovations, patents, proof of concepts, team building, tech talks, looking out for the next big thing.
  • Am always looking for exciting opportunities for building products and teams from scratch because if you have the right people in the right places, there are no limits to what an organization can achieve.
Product Road MappingProduct Development

Senior Manager (R&D)

Sep 2010May 2013 · 2 yrs 8 mos

  • Responsible for bootstrapping and driving R&D out of AirWatch India to design and develop the next-gen solution in enterprise mobility. AirWatch is the leading provider of mobile device management software across the globe. I take personal pride in recruiting only the best people especially those who know better than I do - by virtue of which organizational capacity goes from strength to strength.
  • Shipping Products, Always ! - mantra for my next start up (whenever that happens)

Manhattan associates

3 roles

Senior Manager - Technical

Nov 2006Jul 2010 · 3 yrs 8 mos

  • As part of this role, I am responsible for the technical project management and ultimately for the overall quality of code for various projects to drive successful implementations of our flagship product, WMOS for some of our leading supply chain partners and customers - PUMA, MGA Entertainment and AVON.
  • This also entails identifying key process improvement areas and customizing/designing a subsystem from scratch to tailor the product to a customers' specific needs.
  • Technical project Management primarily involves effort estimation, design review, code review, volume/stress testing, developing use cases,anticipating and preparing for ramp-ups in production volumes and supporting the implementation throughout the entire project lifecycle.

Technical Lead

Promoted

Jul 2005Nov 2006 · 1 yr 4 mos

  • As part of my role as a Technical Lead, I had the opportunity to drive the development of some of the most innovative tools that drastically improved efficiencies during the implementation.
  • Creator of a best-of-breed MHE Simulator for KNAPP MHE system.
  • Conceptualized and created a visual MHE Parser to make MHE Messages human-readable.
  • Creator of a data generator tool for volume testing that can generate both historical data and live business data.
  • First ever attempt to scale out batch processes like the wave as opposed to just scaling up
  • Creator of a Database diff wizard to compare objects between database schemas. This tool works across database vendors.
  • Creator of our company's first ever Webservice Client that talks to a FedEx webservice to fetch real-time rates.
Product Road MappingProject Management

Senior Software Engineer

Jul 2002Jul 2005 · 3 yrs

  • As a Senior Software Engineer, I had the responsibility of designing, developing and maintaining the entire Transportation Execution Module of our Warehouse Management product suite. I gained expertise in software design patterns,principles and frameworks and also gained a deep insight into the business environment for example Label/EDI compliance for Parcel Shipping carriers.

Tech mahindra

Software Engineer

Jan 2000Jan 2002 · 2 yrs

  • Built a SIP stack as part of a VOIP project - worked on RTP and RTCP protocols

Education

Birla Institute of Technology & Science, Pilani

M.S — Software systems

National Institute of Technology, Jalandhar

B.Tech — Computer Science and Engineering

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