Bharat Khatri

CTO

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India12 yrs 7 mos experience

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Key Highlights

Led tech teams in omnichannel marketplace innovation.
Over 10 years of software engineering and leadership experience.
Passionate about startups and emerging technologies.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS and Robotics expert with strong leadership in cloud infrastructure and software development.

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Skills

Core Skills

Software Development Life Cycle (sdlc)Cloud InfrastructureCross-functional Team LeadershipEngineering LeadershipSoftware DevelopmentEnterprise SoftwareAgile Software DevelopmentPlatform Development

Other Skills

Amazon Web Services (AWS)AnsibleApache KafkaArtificial Intelligence (AI)Automation EngineeringBashBlockchainBudget ManagementBusiness-to-Business (B2B)C (Programming Language)C++Cloud ComputingConsumer InternetConsumer ProductsContinuous Integration (CI)

About

As the Chief Technology Officer at Open Secret, I lead the tech and product teams in creating a seamless and innovative omnichannel marketplace model that connects buyers and sellers across online and offline channels. With over 10 years of experience in software engineering and leadership, I have a proven track record of delivering high-impact solutions that drive business growth, customer satisfaction, and operational efficiency. I have a passion for startups, emerging technologies, and open source, and I enjoy exploring new domains and challenges. I am always looking for interesting opportunities to collaborate, learn, and share my knowledge with others.

Experience

12 yrs 7 mos

Total Experience

2 yrs

Average Tenure

2 yrs 8 mos

Current Experience

Council of fractional cxo

Fractional CTO

Jun 2024 – Present · 2 yrs · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · Hybrid

Fractional CTO & Tech Advisory, together with some of the best fractional CXOs based in India.
CFCXO aims to be a one-stop destination to engage the top fractional CXOs based in India.

Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC)Cloud InfrastructureSizingConsumer InternetObject-Oriented Programming (OOP)Vendor Partnerships+47

Prasha systems

Fractional CTO

Oct 2023 – Present · 2 yrs 8 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · On-site

CTO-as-a-Service for startups. Previous clients include venture-backed startups across e-commerce, fintech, edtech & consumer SaaS.

Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC)Cloud InfrastructureSizingConsumer InternetObject-Oriented Programming (OOP)Vendor Partnerships+48

Open secret

Chief Technology Officer

Oct 2022 – Sep 2023 · 11 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Led Tech & Product in an omnichannel marketplace model, for a series B startup backed by Matrix Partners, Sixth Sense Ventures & Ananta Capital

Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC)Cross-functional Team LeadershipSystem ArchitectureCloud InfrastructureRoadmapProduct Management+55

Startups

Angel Investor

Apr 2022 – Present · 4 yrs 2 mos · Remote

I'm currently scouting for FinTech & GenAI startups. I cut small cheques and help with Tech Stack, Team Structure, Hiring, Budgets & Roadmap.

Dunzo

Engineering Leader

Oct 2020 – Mar 2022 · 1 yr 5 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

> Led all customer teams (Storefront, Search, Promotions, Pricing, Checkout, Payments, Personalisation)
> Built & scaled Dunzo Daily (Quick Commerce) with full-stack (Backend, Mobile, Web, QA) and cross-functional (Engineering, Product, Design, Analytics) teams.
> Responsibilities included Hiring & Retention, Team Culture & Productivity, Systems Performance & Tech Portfolio, Product & Business Impact

Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC)Cross-functional Team LeadershipSystem ArchitectureCloud InfrastructureRoadmapProduct Management+54

Open factory

Founder

Apr 2018 – Sep 2020 · 2 yrs 5 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

Worked with businesses to solve problems in the domains of Cloud Computing, Edge Computing, Reinforcement Learning, Supervised Learning, Blockchain, Software Design, etc.

Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC)Cloud InfrastructureConsumer InternetObject-Oriented Programming (OOP)Vendor PartnershipsMicroservices+45

Rapyuta robotics

Tech Lead (Cloud Platform)

Apr 2016 – Mar 2018 · 1 yr 11 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Tools : Docker, Kubernetes, OpenShift, Kafka, RabbitMQ, SaltStack, Ansible, ReactJS, Webpack, ROS, Git, WebRTC
Programming Languages : Golang, Python, JavaScript
Data Stores : PostgreSQL, InfluxDB, Elasticsearch
> Design and implementation of a first-of-its-kind cloud robotics platform : rapyuta.io.
> Launch of rapyuta.io at the world's flagship robotics conference : ROSCon '17, Vancouver, Canada.
> Hiring, mentoring, nurturing the frontend and backend engineering teams.
> Infrastructure services for the enterprise drone automation product : io.drone.
> Video streaming services for the on-demand autonomous drone product : c.drone.
> Migration of robotics production workloads from AWS to rapyuta.io.

Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC)Cloud InfrastructureObject-Oriented Programming (OOP)MicroservicesTeam ManagementInfrastructure Management+39

Petichlor (stealth startup)

Co-Founder

Feb 2015 – Aug 2015 · 6 mos · Mumbai Area, India

Petichlor is a healthcare startup that aims to digitally transform patients' journey by bringing primary healthcare clinics, pathology labs and pharmacies on a unified digital platform.

Agile Software DevelopmentPlatform DevelopmentStart-up VenturesGreenfield DevelopmentProduct Development

Directi

2 roles

Senior Software Engineer

Promoted

Jul 2014 – Mar 2016 · 1 yr 8 mos

Tools : Redis, RabbitMQ, Tomcat, Maven, Git
Programming Languages : Java
Data Stores : Microsoft SQL Server (MSSQL)
> Design and implementation of a server-side behavioral ads engine for Yahoo-Microsoft Bing Ad Network.
> Design and implementation of a new email ads product.
> Training the engineering team on advanced state-of-the-art machine learning methods and tools over the course of several months.
> Hiring (across campus and lateral channels) and corporate training for engineering roles across business units.

Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC)Cloud InfrastructureObject-Oriented Programming (OOP)MicroservicesInfrastructure ManagementAmazon Web Services (AWS)+19

Software Engineer

Jun 2013 – Jun 2014 · 1 yr

Tools : Tomcat, Maven, Git
Programming Languages : Java, JavaScript
Data Stores : Microsoft SQL Server (MSSQL)
> Design and implementation of a client-side behavioral ads engine, leveraging web browser storage, for Yahoo-Microsoft Bing Ad Network. This was the company's first attempt at behavioral advertising (vis-à-vis contextual advertising).
> Hiring (across campus and lateral channels) and corporate training for engineering roles across business units.

Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC)Cloud InfrastructureObject-Oriented Programming (OOP)MicroservicesInfrastructure ManagementAmazon Web Services (AWS)+17