Karishma Bhatia
Lead Backend Engineer, Nike Virtual Studios
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolKarishma Bhatia is a seasoned backend engineering leader with 14 years of experience building scalable e-commerce and consumer-facing services, currently leading backend engineering for Nike Virtual Studios in New York. She has driven major platform features at Nike, including the company’s first-ever preorder functionality for dotSwoosh and SNKRS Pass APIs, demonstrating a knack for shipping high-impact, customer-facing systems. Her background spans full-stack and cloud-native work across fashion and retail brands like Alexander Wang and Ralph Lauren, where she led teams and delivery for multi-locale commerce platforms. Trained in AI through a master’s specialization at Georgia Tech, she combines strong systems design and backend expertise with an interest in leveraging intelligent approaches to product experiences. Colleagues describe her as a pragmatic technical leader who pairs hands-on implementation with cross-team coordination to move complex projects from concept to production.
14 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Master's Degree Computer Science (Specialization - Interactive Intelligence / Artificial Intelligence ), Master's Degree Computer Science (Specialization - Interactive Intelligence / Artificial Intelligence ) at Georgia Institute of TechnologyB.S Computer Science, B.S Computer Science at Florida Institute of Technology
Github Skills (10)
parsing9
validation9
pythonic9
parser8
json-schema8
python8
pydantic6
data-parsing6
react2
twitter2
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
kbhatia/SpotifyBestBefore
Feb 2012 - Sep 2015
Contributions:7 commits, 2 pushes in 3 years 8 months
kbhatia/Travitter
Nov 2013 - Jun 2014
Contributions:30 commits in 7 months
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