Karthik Bhatt

Engineering Manager

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India17 yrs 8 mos experience

Key Highlights

17 years of experience in distributed systems.
Proven track record in technical leadership and team management.
Expert in cost optimization and reliability initiatives.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a seasoned Engineering Manager with expertise in SaaS and cloud infrastructure.

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Skills

Core Skills

Engineering LeadershipTechnical LeadershipProject ManagementContainerizationWeb DevelopmentSoftware Development

Other Skills

Team BuildingMicrosoft AzureCross-team CollaborationDistributed SystemsGo (Programming Language)PrometheusGrafanaKubernetesAWSPlatform as a Service (PAAS)Amazon Web Services (AWS)Cloud-native microservicesDockerPythonProactive Monitoring

About

I am an Engineering Manager with over 17 years of experience in building, scaling, and enhancing the reliability of distributed systems and services. I have a proven track record in technical leadership, people management, and stakeholder management, delivering successful cross-functional partnerships across multiple teams. I have been actively involved in the creation and execution of technical strategies and roadmaps, with a strong focus on cost optimization, security, and reliability initiatives. I take pride in coaching, mentoring, and growing team members, helping them achieve their career goals. I have extensive experience in managing small to medium-sized teams, demonstrating consistent growth and successful deliveries. I have successfully shipped large-scale projects with dependencies across multiple teams, ensuring seamless collaboration and high-quality outcomes. I am always looking to learn new skills, explore new challenges, and collaborate with diverse and talented people.

Experience

17 yrs 8 mos

Total Experience

Average Tenure

Current Experience

Youtube

Engineering Manager

Nov 2025 – Present · 7 mos · Bengaluru

Working on Commerce initiatives

Engineering Leadership

Microsoft

Senior Software Engineering Manager

Mar 2023 – Nov 2025 · 2 yrs 8 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Leading key initiatives in Software Engineering, Data Engineering and Site Reliability Engineering.
Worked on Cost optimization of Distributed systems (Compute) and databases (CosmosDB).
Worked on Security initiatives spanning entire product (established Network Security Perimeter).
Worked on Reliability initiatives with improvements in Availability, Disaster Recovery, Detection, (Auto)mitigation and Resolution.

Technical LeadershipTeam BuildingProject ManagementMicrosoft Azure

Adobe

Senior Site Reliability Engineer

Sep 2021 – Feb 2023 · 1 yr 5 mos · Bangalore Urban, Karnataka, India

Led the migration effort to setup observability with Prometheus, Cortex and Grafana across Marketo org.
Worked on App modernization and migration with Kubernetes and AWS.
Worked on maintaining and improving reliability in hybrid cloud environment.

Technical LeadershipCross-team CollaborationDistributed SystemsGo (Programming Language)

Vmware

2 roles

Staff Engineer

Aug 2019 – Sep 2021 · 2 yrs 1 mo

Worked on Platform initiatives for commonly used services such as database, cache, message queues, service discovery etc at VMware IoT Team
Build, package, deploy and manage cloud-native microservices (stateful) that run on Kubernetes
Platform automation using Cloudformation, Terraform and Ansible
Setup monitoring/observability for cloud-hosted environments in AWS (Cloudwatch/Container insights)

Technical LeadershipPlatform as a Service (PAAS)Amazon Web Services (AWS)

Senior Member Technical Staff

Apr 2016 – Aug 2019 · 3 yrs 4 mos

Worked on Containerization of microservices using Docker and Orchestration of containers using Kubernetes in Azure and AWS environments.
Worked on App monitoring using NewRelic, Log Monitoring using LogInsight, Infrastructure monitoring with Sensu and custom plugins (Python) while implementing CI-CD using Jenkins.

DockerKubernetesPythonProactive MonitoringContainerization

Actiance, inc.

Technical Lead

Jul 2011 – Mar 2016 · 4 yrs 8 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

Summary:
Focused on automation of Cloud Migration, Capacity Planning, Virtualization, Continuous Integration, Continuous Delivery, Proactive Monitoring and Dashboarding.
Designed and implemented backup and restore procedures for critical systems and brought down the recovery time to 30 minutes with minimal/no-loss of data.
Responsible for vertical and horizontal scaling of product infrastructure in cloud environment (AWS).
Migrated away from legacy and home-grown tools/scripts to modern tools such as Git, Atlassian (Jira, Confluence, Bamboo) and evangelized across company.
Defined and implemented workflow for deployment in multiple environments (Testing, Staging and Production) including branching strategy and auto-promotion of code changes to higher branches.
Dev Environment setup using Vagrant, VirtualBox.
Provisioning and Configuration using Puppet, Ansible, Chef.
Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery using Git, Bamboo.
Created a PHP based UI (Apache web server, AJAX for dynamic refresh and MySQL backend database) for one click deployment and monitoring of Production environments.
Responsible for deployment of big-data and distributed OSS such as Elasticsearch, Mongodb, Cassandra, Hazelcast, Ceph, Kafka, Zookeeper, Karaf, Storm, Logstash and Kibana.
Administered Ganglia and used Nagios for monitoring the system stats.

Technical LeadershipAmazon Web Services (AWS)PythonGit

Nokia

2 roles

Software Engineer

Promoted

Aug 2009 – Jul 2011 · 1 yr 11 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

Responsible for Automation and development of PHP based web tools for managing the delivery pipeline better.
Developed Verification scripts at each stage for reducing the manual errors.

LAMPPythonWeb Development