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Manjunath Bhat
VP Analyst
Manjunath (Manju) Bhat is a Research VP in the software engineering practice covering technologies and practices related to DevSecOps, Generative AI, cloud-native application development and software supply chain security. Mr. Bhat advises clients on a range of software engineering and platform engineering initiatives that cross over application development, security and platform engineering boundaries.
Manjunath advises clients on how to leverage Generative AI to improve software engineering practices. He is currently working on research around improving developer experience using AI Coding assistants, platform engineering and GitOps.
Previous experience
Mr. Bhat architected and designed mobile security and the AirWatch EMM software in his previous position. He was the head of engineering at AirWatch by VMware India Technologies. He joined the company as the first employee and built the R&D organization from the ground up.
His expertise includes building scalable,fault-tolerant,load-balanced, high volume, mission-critical transactional systems. He Was responsible for the technical architecture of warehouse automation software that powered one of the world's biggest warehouses in North America.
Professional background
VMware
Director, R&D
Manhattan Associates Inc.
Senior Manager, Design of Warehouse Automation Software
Manhattan Associates India R&D Center
Development Manager
Areas of coverage
Software Engineering Technologies
Security of Applications and Data
Software Development for Technical Professionals
Software Engineering Practices
Education
Master's Degree, Software Systems
Top Issues That I Help Clients Address
1How to adopt platform engineering to scale DevOps, improve developer experience and accelerate cloud adoption
2How to use Generative AI to enhance the complete software development life cycle
3How to mitigate software supply chain security risks and adopt SBOMs
4How to implement DevOps, chaos engineering, site reliability engineering (SRE) and achieve continuous resilience
5How to adopt and contribute to open-source software, including governance and innersource approaches