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Rohit Bakhshi

Co-Founder

Chicago, Illinois, United States19 yrs experience
Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

  • Led product teams for multiple successful tech companies.
  • Co-founded a startup and secured Fortune 500 clients.
  • Expert in cloud-native data engineering solutions.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS and Cloud Computing expert with strong product management skills.

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Skills

Core Skills

Product ManagementTechnical StrategyProduct Development

Other Skills

Technical ArchitectureCloud ComputingCloud Native Data EngineeringApache SparkKubernetesKafkaReplicatorSaaSGraphQLData VisualizationJavaScriptHadoopEntrepreneurshipNetworkingMarketing Analytics

About

In my career, I've been fortunate to: - Help two companies (Hortonworks and Confluent) grow from Series B/C to a public company as a product leader - Co-found Prophecy.io through seed stage - signing the first Fortune 500 customer, establish strategic partnerships with global SIs, and establish legal, accounting, finance, and HR operations During it all, I've owned the role of and mentored others in engineering, product management, product marketing, sales engineering, business development, professional services and customer support.

Experience

19 yrs
Total Experience
3 yrs 8 mos
Average Tenure
7 yrs 8 mos
Current Experience

Confluent

2 roles

Product Management

Jul 2020Present · 5 yrs 10 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

  • Lead the product team responsible for Confluent across private infrastructures and hybrid deployments.
Product ManagementTechnical ArchitectureCloud Computing

Product Management

Dec 2017Sep 2018 · 9 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

  • Product Lead for Kafka and Replicator.
  • Brought to market Confluent Operator.
Product ManagementKafkaReplicator

Prophecy.io

Advisor, Co-Founder

Sep 2018Present · 7 yrs 8 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

  • Prophecy.io is a Cloud Native Data Engineering product built on Spark & Kubernetes. We help enterprises modernize their data engineering with open runtimes and hybrid cloud deployments. We do this by automatically migrating existing ETL workflows to Apache Spark and providing a full stack data engineering product on Cloud Native infrastructure.
  • We're hiring!
Cloud Native Data EngineeringApache SparkKubernetesProduct Management

Meteor development group

Product Management

Sep 2015Nov 2017 · 2 yrs 2 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

  • First product management hire - responsible for product management of commercial SaaS developer tooling and platform offerings.
  • Apollo Engine - https://dev-blog.apollodata.com/introducing-apollo-engine-insights-error-reporting-and-caching-for-graphql-6a55147f63fc
  • Apollo Optics - Usage and Performance Insights for GraphQL. http://www.apollodata.com/optics
  • Meteor Galaxy - Runtime for modern Javascript applications. https://www.meteor.com/galaxy
SaaSProduct ManagementGraphQL

Hortonworks

Product Management

Dec 2011Sep 2015 · 3 yrs 9 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

  • First product management hire - helped company go from $0 to $100 MM ARR.
  • Responsible for product management for Hadoop Core (HDFS, YARN) and HDP in the cloud - Microsoft HDInsight and HDP on Azure.
  • http://hortonworks.com/blog/microsoft-azure-hdinsight-on-linux-expands-application-platforms/
HadoopCloud ComputingProduct Management

Mit/stanford venture lab (vlab)

Web Chair, VLAB Executive Team

Sep 2009May 2015 · 5 yrs 8 mos

  • The MIT/Stanford Venture Lab is the San Francisco Bay Area chapter of the MIT Enterprise Forum, a non-profit organization dedicated to promoting the growth and success of high-tech entrepreneurial ventures by connecting ideas, technology and people. We host the largest ongoing gathering of Silicon Valley entrepreneurs, venture capitalists and thought leaders at our monthly events at the Stanford Graduate School of Business, with an ecosystem that includes 25,000+ Bay Area influencers.
EntrepreneurshipNetworking

Accenture interactive

Development Lead

Mar 2008Sep 2010 · 2 yrs 6 mos

  • Product development for Accenture Marketing Analytics Platform (AMAP).
  • AMAP is a comprehensive marketing planning environment that enables timely assessment of marketing performance, fact-based planning including 'what if‘ capability and on-going marketing investment optimization.
  • + Development team lead - Led design and development of web client application in Adobe Flex. Responsible for data visualization and user interface.
  • + Product R&D - Responsible for key product R&D iniatives; Distributed analytical processing and continous analytics
  • + Product strategy - Developed product roadmap, conducted market research, designed new product features
  • Product Demo:
  • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5qSkMcc-_7k
Product DevelopmentMarketing Analytics

Accenture

R&D Consultant

Jul 2007Dec 2011 · 4 yrs 5 mos

  • Technical Strategy and Product development in the Accenture Technology Labs Emerging Data Platforms group.
  • + Led design, development and product strategy for marketing interactions data platform prototype built on Hadoop, Hbase and Hive technologies.
  • + R&D project exploring distributed non-relational data platforms to store and analyze Time series data (Smart grid meter readings)
  • + Established thought leadership on No SQL data platforms for Accenture
  • + Technical architect for Predictive Analytics architectures
  • Technology Labs explores new and emerging technologies that are one to five years out, and uses them to create prototypes and cutting-edge solutions to help organizations maximize performance in the future.
Technical StrategyHadoopProduct Development

Cerner corp.

Software Development Intern

May 2006Aug 2006 · 3 mos

  • Web based database application development. Worked with SQL Server 2000, T-SQL and C# programming languages.
Web DevelopmentSQLC#

Education

University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

B. Sc. — Computer Engineering

Jan 2003Jan 2007

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