Vishwa Bhat
Staff 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
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering (BEng), Computer Science, Bachelor of Engineering (BEng), Computer Science at KLS Gogte Institute of TechnolgyPre University, Computer Science, Pre University, Computer Science at Alvas Pre University College
Tulu, Kannada, Hindi, English
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (39)
expressjs10
nodejs9
rest-api9
fiber8
cloudinary8
go8
golang8
cloudinary-sdk7
nuxt-module6
apache-poi6
dependency-injection6
android6
spring-boot6
avsc6
clob6
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
vbhat161/vertx-mysql-poc
Jan 2019 - Oct 2019
Vertx prototype with MySQL Async Client
Contributions:4 commits, 2 pushes, 1 branch in 8 months
asyncmysqlvertxjava-8
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-hookstypescripthooksreactredux
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