Omkarnath Phatak
VP Of Engineering at Tijori
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
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Top SchoolOmkarnath Phatak is a seasoned engineering leader with 14 years of experience building and scaling distributed systems and teams, currently serving as VP of Engineering at Tijori in Bengaluru. He blends hands-on expertise in Python and Go with strategic leadership—establishing CI/CD, low-level designs, cost-optimized cloud infrastructure, and hiring pipelines that enabled rapid WFH transitions and cut production costs dramatically. A proven mentor and team builder, he has led engineering from foundation codebases to product delivery across fintech, e-commerce, and data platforms. He contributes to open-source tooling (notably backend work on a Go-based local SMS gateway) and is recognized as a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional for community impact. Practical, process-minded, and still coding, he thrives at the intersection of robust system design and organizational change.
14 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Computer Applications, Master's degree, Computer Applications at Finolex Academy of Management and TechnologyBachelor's degree, Accounting, Commerce, First class, Bachelor's degree, Accounting, Commerce, First class at Gogate Joglekar College
English, Marathi, Hindi
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Github Skills (13)
go10
sqlite10
api-design9
restful-api9
rest-api9
api-rest9
database-design8
xcode6
winforms6
python-modules6
python6
django6
virtualenv6
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
haxpax/gosms
Jan 2015 - Jul 2020
:mailbox_closed: Your own local SMS gateway in Go
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:46 commits, 3 PRs, 11 pushes in 5 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Omkarnath primarily focused on building the back-end functionality of the SMS gateway. They developed an application configuration helper using the go-ini library and implemented methods for reading and validating configuration parameters. Furthermore, the user integrated an SQLite database, adding functions for message handling (insert, update, retrieval) and database table creation. They also worked on the server-side API, including its data fetching and response structures.
gosms-gateway
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