Vishwa Bhat
Senior Backend Engineer at GitLab
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
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Top SchoolVishwa Bhat is a product-minded Senior Backend Engineer with over a decade of experience designing and shipping scalable backend systems, currently focused on static code analysis and secrets detection at GitLab. He has a strong track record building core services and identity/access management platforms, having led teams and delivered foundational infrastructure at Sequoia that supported products used by Dropbox, Zoom, and Snap. Vishwa blends hands-on engineering with product instincts—he temporarily stepped into product management to launch Sequoia PX 2.0 and co-founded Mobriq to rethink receipt experiences—showing a knack for turning user needs into pragmatic technical solutions. Comfortable in early-stage engineering teams and larger organizations alike, he mentors engineers, owns end-to-end designs, and consistently delivers reliable systems under real-world constraints. Based in Bengaluru, he brings startup grit and enterprise discipline to problems at the intersection of security, identity, and backend scale.
10 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering (BEng), Bachelor of Engineering (BEng) at KLS Gogte Institute of TechnolgyPre University, Pre University at Alvas Pre University College
Tulu, Kannada, Hindi, English
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Github Skills (50)
expressjs10
middleware9
golang9
nodejs9
rest-api9
fiber9
cycle7
cloudinary7
go7
apache-poi6
attestation6
dependency-injection6
android6
cloudinary-sdk6
spring-boot6
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
VishwaBhat/vertx-mysql-poc
Jan 2019 - Oct 2019
Vertx prototype with MySQL Async Client
Contributions:4 commits, 2 pushes, 1 branch in 8 months
mysqljava-8prototypeasyncjava
VishwaBhat/redux-typescript-hooks
Oct 2019 - Jun 2020
A simple todo list following React Hooks, Typescript and Redux(with Hooks)
Contributions:3 PRs, 9 pushes, 1 branch in 8 months
react-hooks-typescriptreactsasstypescript-hooksfollowing
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