Analyst Profile

Manjunath Bhat
VP Analyst
7 years at Gartner
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21 years industry experience
Singapore
Roles and Responsibilities
Manjunath (Manju) Bhat is a Research VP in the software engineering practice covering technologies and practices related DevSecOps, SRE, 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 and infrastructure engineering boundaries. Manjunath advises clients on how to develop and deploy software applications as well as on applying a software engineering mindset to infrastructure delivery. He is currently working on research around improving developer experience, implementing GitOps, platform engineering, observability-driven development and software supply chain security (SBOMs and open source software governance).
Manjunath Bhat's Recent Gartner Activity
Latest Research
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The Future of DevOps Toolchains
14 January 2021 -
The Top Technology Trends Impacting DevOps
13 January 2022
On-Demand & Upcoming Webinars
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IT Symposium/Xpo
12 September 2022 - 14 September 2022
Upcoming Gartner Events
Background
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
Manhattan Associates Inc., Senior Manager, Design of Warehouse Automation Software, 4 years
Manhattan Associates India R&D Center, Development Manager, 4 years
VMware, Director, R&D, 5 years
Industry Awards/Accolades
Co-inventor on patents for:
Decoupling and relocating bookmarks and annotations from files (US20180307660A1)
Distributing security codes through a restricted communications channel (US9819670B2)
Lead Inventor for USPTO patents (Granted):
Searching content associated with multiple applications (US10051045B2)
Secure conversation and document binder (US10021050B2)
Education
Master's Degree, Software Systems
Languages
English