Karthik Bhat
Director Of Engineering, Identity Security at Okta, Inc.
San Francisco Bay Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolKarthik Bhat is an engineering leader and entrepreneur with over a decade building identity, privacy, and data-centric security products from startup to scale, now serving as Director of Engineering for Identity Security at Okta in the San Francisco Bay Area. He blends hands-on platform and cryptography-driven product development—passwordless auth, device identity, and AI/ML-backed risk detection—with a UX-first approach that treats developers as the first line of defense. Previously he co-founded SecureDB, led developer and gateway platforms at Virtru, and has a track record of shipping encryption, TDE, and integration SDKs for web, mobile and IoT. A frequent speaker and community organizer in security and privacy, he pairs entrepreneurial grit with deep systems and cloud security expertise rooted in an MS in Electrical Engineering.
10 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
BS Electronics and Communications Engineering, BS Electronics and Communications Engineering at University of MysoreMaster of Science (MS) Electrical Engineering, Master of Science (MS) Electrical Engineering at West Virginia University
English, Kannada, Hindi
Github Skills (17)
encryption5
protocols5
data-format5
operation5
schema-validation4
spec4
json4
metadata4
security4
javascript2
drag-and-drop1
drag1
typescript1
integrate1
sdk1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
karthikbhat/karthikbhat.github.io
Oct 2019 - Nov 2020
Minimal Mistakes GitHub Pages site starter
Contributions:43 pushes in 1 year 1 month
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karthikbhat/RepoSe
Oct 2019 - Oct 2019
Contributions:4 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
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