Kaushik Bhat
Associate Director, Engineering
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
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Top SchoolKaushik Bhat is an engineering leader with 13 years of experience building and scaling production-critical platforms, currently Associate Director of Engineering at Razorpay in Bengaluru. He combines deep hands-on engineering with operator instincts, having led the API Gateway that handles 500M+ daily requests and driven platform availability to 99.99% while cutting infra costs by 60%. Kaushik has repeatedly led monolith-to-microservices transformations, introduced CI/CD and agile practices, and owned security and compliance as a CISO-level contributor during ISO 27001 and VAPT efforts. His background spans product-facing roles—owning onboarding, risk scorecards, and partner integrations—to platform engineering, giving him a rare blend of product empathy and systems rigor. He scales teams and processes as comfortably as services, growing engineering groups from small startups to high-performing teams across multiple companies. Outside the obvious metrics, he’s known for turning operational pain points into automated decisioning and tooling that empower Ops and reduce manual toil.
13 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering (BE) Information Technology, Bachelor of Engineering (BE) Information Technology at University of Mumbai
English, Hindi, Kannada, Marathi
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (1)
html6
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
kaushikb9/Couch-Debug-Browser
Nov 2017 - Jan 2024
Contributions:4 pushes, 1 branch in 6 years 3 months
kaushikb9/em-interviews
Oct 2020 - Jun 2021
Contributions:23 commits, 22 pushes, 1 branch in 8 months
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