Gartner Expert
Manjunath Bhat
VP Analyst
Manjunath (Manju) Bhat is a Research VP covering practices, technologies and tools related to DevOps, SRE, cloud, automation, software engineering and open-source software. Mr. Bhat advises clients on a range of software engineering and platform engineering initiatives that cross over application development and infrastructure engineering boundaries.
Manjunath regularly advises clients on how to apply software engineering practices to infrastructure delivery and drive higher business value from cloud-enabled innovation.
He sees the shift from project to product based operating models alongside a transition to cloud native architectures as two tectonic shifts affecting DevOps. In addition, he is actively involved in the future of work research initiatives.
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
Digital Workplace Infrastructure and Operations
Infrastructure, Operations and Cloud Management
Software Engineering Technologies
Security of Applications and Data
Cloud and Edge Infrastructure
Education
Master's Degree, Software Systems
Top Issues That I Help Clients Address
1How to implement infrastructure-as-code using cloud-native practices such as GitOps
2How to drive innovation, agility and customer value through cloud adoption. Best practices in cloud adoption
3How can software engineering leaders enhance developer experience and mitigate supply chain security risks
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 innersourcing approaches
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