Hi, I'm Sandeep Bhat

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Staff Software Engineer - II building high-scale distributed systems with Go, Kubernetes, and multi-cloud platforms. Conference speaker at GopherCon & IndiaFOSS & Conf42.

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main.go 
package main

import "fmt"

type Engineer struct {
    Name     string
    Role     string
    Skills   []string
    Passion  string
}

func main() {
    me := Engineer{
        Name:    "Sandeep Bhat",
        Role:    "Staff SWE II",
        Skills:  []string{
            "Go", "K8s",
            "Cloud", "Envoy",
        },
        Passion: "Building at scale",
    }
    fmt.Println(me)
}
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About Me

Passionate about building scalable systems

I am a passionate software engineer with over 10 years of experience working with technologies across multi-cloud (GCP, AWS and Azure), Kubernetes, Envoy and distributed systems.

Was part of a startup which was acquired by Cisco (Cmpute.io) as well as a team which built a platform that handles traffic to the scale of several million flows per minute at Walmart, supporting successful holiday seasons across 2019-2021.

I give talks at tech conferences like GopherCon, Conf42 and IndiaFOSS, and love working on cutting-edge projects that push the boundaries of scale and performance.

Golang Microservices Cloud Communication Fast Learner Problem Solving

Currently at

Harness — Staff Software Engineer - II

Based in

Bangalore, India

Speaker at

GopherCon, IndiaFOSS, Conf42

Education

IIT Delhi CEP - Generative AI

Skills & Expertise

Technologies I work with

Go Development

Primary language for professional development. Building scalable, testable, and maintainable systems for over 3+ years, with two major projects built from scratch.

Cloud Computing

Hands-on experience with GCP, AWS, and Azure. Active work on Azure VMs, Autoscaling, Azure Blob Storage, and multi-cloud architectures.

Docker

Writing dockerized container programs with experience in multi-stage, multi-arch build processes for production-ready deployments.

Kubernetes

Working with K8s using Helm for template management. Intermediate to advanced skills in container orchestration and deployment strategies.

Prometheus & Grafana

Setup, configuration, and custom dashboards. Experienced with PromQL and Grafana with Prometheus as the data source for observability.

Linux

Primary operating system. Capable of writing bash/shell scripts and comfortable with Linux-based infrastructure management.

Career Journey

Professional Experience

Harness

Staff Software Engineer - II

September 2025 – Present • Bangalore
Current
  • Leading Commitment Orchestrator (CO) team at Harness handling aspects of scale and forecasting using a mix of Prophet and agentic interactions
  • Leading Harness CCM AI initiatives simplifying feature adoption making it easier to adopt them using AI

Staff Software Engineer

May 2023 – September 2025
  • Taking up more responsibilities across CCM in Harness
  • Leading the effort in multiple features around cloud cost optimisation involving multi cloud providers like AWS, GCP and Azure
  • Actively participated in recruitment activities for 3 years and 2 years in campus recruitments resulting in hiring of successful engineers and graduates

Senior Software Engineer - II

December 2021 – May 2023
  • Developed a custom load balancer using Envoy, operationalized across GCP, AWS and Azure — saving thousands in hard dollars for customers
  • Worked on Cloud Governance with scalability wired into the product from scratch
  • Developed Commitment Orchestrator from scratch

Walmart Labs

Software Engineer III

July 2019 – November 2021 • Bangalore
  • Designed and developed features for custom Software Defined LoadBalancer (SLB) written entirely in Go
  • Implemented HTTP Log sampling handling several TBs in real-time, improving MTTR and MTTD
  • Built Istio and Envoy-based next-gen traffic routing stack from scratch
  • Revamped health checking engine managing several thousands of applications
  • Supported 44K+ orders/min during Black Friday – Cyber Monday holiday sales
  • Won hackathon with Latency Tracker POC — promoted to full-time project

Cisco Systems

Software Engineer II → III

Jan 2018 – July 2019 • Bangalore
  • Designed scheduling and task management service for Kubernetes cluster load balancing
  • Built multi-cloud inventory tracking service with relationship mapping and lifecycle management
  • Drove Kubernetes adoption within the product
  • Worked on CloudCenter suite — Cisco Cost Optimizer

Cmpute.io Acquired by Cisco

Software Developer

Jan 2017 – Dec 2017 • Bangalore
  • Developed frontend UI single-handedly from scratch (Angular 2 + TypeScript) alongside APIs (C#, LINQ)
  • Worked on Golang notification system modules

Hewlett Packard Enterprise

R&D Engineer

Earlier • Bangalore
  • Worked on Virtual Connect — a switch device virtualizing NICs in blade server environments
  • Built Audit Logging feature using Linux rsyslog kernel for event logging and boot-time support
Education

Academic Background

IIT Delhi

Continuous Education Program (CEP) — Generative AI

2025
CEP
  • Completed IIT Delhi's CEP on Generative AI, delving deep into Machine Learning and Neural Networks
  • Capstone project: Trained a model on a HuggingFace dataset to counter hate speech with counter speech
  • Gained hands-on experience with transformer architectures, fine-tuning, and modern NLP techniques
Recognition

Achievements & Milestones

Hackathon Winner — Walmart Labs

Won the hackathon at Walmart Labs with a POC of Latency Tracker, which was later promoted to a full-time project with a dedicated PM.

Azure Fundamentals Certified

Microsoft Azure AZ-900 certification demonstrating foundational knowledge of cloud services and Azure platform.

Conference Speaker

Delivered technical talks at prestigious conferences, sharing knowledge on Go, cloud infrastructure, and open-source technologies.

GopherCon Talk IndiaFOSS Talk Conf42 Talk

Startup to Acquisition

Part of Cmpute.io from early stage through its acquisition by Cisco, contributing to the core product that drove the deal.

Portfolio

Featured Projects

EC2Sync (Easy-2-Sync)

AWS Lambda function to automatically sync files from an S3 bucket to a target VM. Streamlines deployment and file management workflows.

AWS Lambda S3 Kubernetes Cloud

AWS Solutions Architect Notes

Comprehensive study notes and resources for preparing for the AWS Solutions Architect Certification exam.

AWS Certification Cloud Architecture

Go Recipes

A proof-of-concept product built in Go — think Zomato for all recipes. Exploring Go's capabilities in web application development.

Go Web App REST API

LanLink

Python-based product connecting all systems within a LAN, enabling text and audio communication across local networks.

Python Networking Audio
Conference Talks

Sharing knowledge with the community

Watch my talks on Go, Cloud Infrastructure, and Distributed Systems

GopherCon Talk 30:45
Watch on YouTube

Scheduled Job Executions in Go

GopherCon India 2023

Building robust scheduled job execution systems with Go - practical examples and best practices for distributed systems
IndiaFOSS Talk 42:18
Watch on YouTube

Developing a Custom Load Balancer to serve traffic at scale

IndiaFOSS

Building custom load balancing solutions for high-traffic workloads and distributed systems architecture
Conf42 Talk 25:32
Watch on YouTube

Developing Custom Load Balancer using Envoy

Conf42

Building and deploying custom load balancers using Envoy proxy for high-performance traffic management at scale
Get In Touch

Let's build something amazing together

Have a project in mind or just want to connect? I'd love to hear from you.

Location

Bangalore, India