Krishna Bharathala
Product Manager at Contrary
San Francisco Bay Area United States
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Top SchoolKrishna Bharathala is a product leader and founder with 11 years of experience building consumer and enterprise products at the intersection of software and strategy. A Stanford GSB MBA and Jerome Fisher dual-degree alum (Computer Science + Business/Wharton), he began his career at Google in the APM program working on Project Starline and Universal App Campaigns, then co-founded and served as CTO of Clipbook.io, scaling it to 100+ customers across political and government sectors. He combines hands-on engineering fluency with product and go-to-market experience, advising pre-seed startups across fintech, climate tech, and future-of-work verticals as a venture partner at Contrary. Currently a Product Manager at Sierra, Krishna also explores deep tech and policy-adjacent markets through memberships like South Park Commons, bringing a rare mix of technical rigor, startup-builder instincts, and strategic investor perspective. Notably, his background spans both building novel communication products and democratizing media monitoring for high-stakes users, a thread that highlights his focus on mission-driven, impact-oriented tooling.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Business Administration - MBA, Master of Business Administration - MBA at Stanford University Graduate School of BusinessBS Economics Entrepreneurship/Entrepreneurial Studies, BS Economics Entrepreneurship/Entrepreneurial Studies at The Wharton SchoolMission San Jose High SchoolMaster of Science - MS Computer Science, Master of Science - MS Computer Science at University of Pennsylvania
Telugu, English
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Github Skills (15)
morphing9
blending9
ios8
swift8
intervals8
location8
points8
python6
jekyll6
dlib5
javascript4
frontend4
flask3
portal2
django2
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
hack4impact/busy-booth
Feb 2016 - Jul 2016
Contributions:74 commits, 37 PRs, 47 pushes in 5 months
kbharathala/ProjectEuler
Mar 2015 - Jan 2017
Contributions:14 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 10 months
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