Bharat Kalluri is a Staff Engineer based in Bengaluru with 10 years of experience building and scaling fintech platforms, currently leading the banking engineering team at Refyne India. He combines hands-on system design (MongoDB, AWS, Python, Go) with strategic alignment—working directly with C-suite to translate OKRs into technical roadmaps and hiring pipelines. At Refyne he helped design core lending products from MVP to a 500 Cr book, rebuilt loan management infrastructure for scale, and established B2B data pipelines and integrations. He contributes to open-source projects across front-end and back-end domains, including enhancements to the widely used Internet Archive Open Library and UI/UX work on Focalboard. A teacher and active blogger (bharatkalluri.com), he’s known for mentoring engineers and turning ambiguous business needs into pragmatic, production-ready systems.
10 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.), Computer Science, Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.), Computer Science at Satyabhama University
Focalboard is an open source, self-hosted alternative to Trello, Notion, and Asana.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Contributions:9 reviews, 17 commits, 6 PRs in 1 month
Contributions summary:Bharat primarily contributed to the front-end of the application, enhancing user interface elements and improving user experience. Their commits include adding export functionality and internationalization features, specifically modifying components related to the view header and menus. The user also added a URL and phone number field as properties to cards. Further commits refactored to improve code clarity.
Contributions:2 reviews, 33 commits, 6 PRs in 3 months
Contributions summary:Bharat primarily focused on enhancing the Open Library project by modifying a script related to dumping ratings and reading logs. Their contributions involved adding and refining SQL queries within the script to extract and format data. Key changes included handling null values, adding prefixes to work and book identifiers, and adding date filtering. Further work involved refactoring the script and its dependencies and changing an API call.
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