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July 23, 2025
Saurabh
Bhatia
he/him/his
Chief Technology Officer / Lead Developer / Head of Engineering
New South Wales
Brand statement
Seasoned Engineering Leader who loves building high performing and happy engineering teams.
Career Journey
Career Story
I am a seasoned Engineering Leader with over 20 years of broad range of experience across several technology disciplines, industry verticals and business functions. Having worked with teams across the world, I take pride in building high performing engineering teams and delivering high quality work at scale. With a background as an entrepreneur and early stage employee at several startups, I bring a wealth of experience at the intersection of software engineering and day zero startups. I love public speaking at meetups, conferences and writing for magazines, journals and blogs.
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[ { "role": "Staff Engineer, Engineering Manager & Tech Lead", "company": "Paloma Group", "endYear": "2024", "endMonth": "8", "location": "Sydney NSW", "startYear": "2018", "startMonth": "9", "currentRole": false, "description": "" }, { "role": "Lead Engineer / CTO", "company": "Flaunter.com", "endYear": "2018", "endMonth": "8", "location": "Sydney NSW", "startYear": "2018", "startMonth": "1", "currentRole": false, "description": "Joined Flaunter as a Lead developer and worked on rebuilding Flaunter’s platform and suite of\nproducts from the ground up to help them reach a global audience. I was the acting CTO and\napart from development, I was also responsible for doing other functions like - working on RnD\ngrant, hiring and working with contractors for Design, Frontend.\nSome of the technologies I’ve worked with while doing these are -\nRuby\nRails\nVueJS." }, { "role": "Senior Software Engineer", "company": "Airtasker", "endYear": "2018", "endMonth": "1", "location": "Sydney NSW", "startYear": "2016", "startMonth": "12", "currentRole": false, "description": "Joined Airtasker as an early employee in their core engineering team to help their platform\nscale, during their hyper growth phase. I also worked on helping them go global by preparing\nAirtasker’s platform for UK expansion.\nProjects Undertaken:\nAirstream(https://github.com/airtasker/airstream) & Airtasker Core\n● Worked as a part of the Core Engineering team.\n● Responsible for hiring and building the Engineering team, reviewing code challenges,\ninterviewing and onboarding candidates.\n● Helped in scaling activities with respect to improving quality of code, database changes.\n● Decide changes in backend architecture.\n● Developed Airstream, a serverless based data transport system.\n● Introduced Elasticsearch into the system to help scale the notification system of Airtasker.\n● Deployments & DevOps.\n● Pay off tech debt.\nAirtasker Global - https://www.airtasker.com/uk/\n● Develop architecture for Global infrastructure.\n● Design and Develop Database for global delivery.\n● Design routing layer for global API.\n● Change API code to work globally." }, { "role": "Senior Engineer", "company": "Bulletproof Networks Ltd.", "endYear": "2016", "endMonth": "12", "location": "Sydney NSW", "startYear": "2016", "startMonth": "3", "currentRole": false, "description": "When I joined Bulletproof Networks, I was part of the Foundation team that handled data center metering, billing but Bulletproof’s Virtual Machine hosting platform.\nResponsibilities:\n● Technology decisions for development, test and production environments. ●\nDevelop and test features of various applications within Bulletproof.\n● Develop frontend features.\n● Write developer-style guide\nProjects Undertaken:\nFoundation Projects\nFoundation team handles software that requires automation to several business processes within\nthe company. The team develops and maintains several applications, rubygems developed using\nRails 4.2, Ruby 2.2.3, AngularJS 1.5, Angular 2.0, RSpec, Jasmine.\n● Added static security scanning to the build process.\n● Added upgrade mechanism and dependency tracking for management.\n● Integrated reports from watch4net into the Manage System.\n● Implement IP Allocation Management solution with APIs that can bridge across various\nsystems in the company.\n● Finished frontend application for Broadcast in AngularJS.\n● Fix bugs and add new features to the frontend application.\n● Fix issues and develop new features in the backend Rails API.\n\nWon 1st Prize in Azure Hackday. Developed an app that does Emotional analysis on staff’s pictures, measuring their happiness index using Microsoft’s Azure Emotion API (Cognitive Services), Ruby, Rails." }, { "role": "CTO", "company": "Ace Venture Studio", "endYear": "", "endMonth": "", "location": "Sydney NSW", "startYear": "2024", "startMonth": "9", "currentRole": false, "description": "Worked on setting engineering and sales functions for Ace Venture Studio. Took the company\nrevenue from A$0 to A$150,000 per month in Sales. Hired an offshore team of 15 developers, a project manager, tech lead and Business Analyst.\n\nOwned every step of a client’s cycle - Pre-Sales, Sales, Onboarding a client, architecture,\nonboarding a dev team to help them get started, ensure the processes are sound, write code to\nsupport teams, manage motivation and delivery.\nSome of the technologies I’ve worked with while doing these are -\n\nNextJS\nRemixJS\nNode\nRuby on Rails\n\nAWS AI tools like Rekognition and Sagemaker\nFull Stack NodeJS\nVenture Studio clients worked with:\nGallantree Pty Ltd\nHigh End app\nDrivo Pty Ltd\nThePetSpot" } ]
Career & Personal Growth
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My career goal is to help more and more tech startups by providing them with high quality Engineering Leadership right from diving into their code to developing their teams and being their chief problem solver on the engineering front.
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Contact Information
Phone
0415772685
Email
saurabh.a.bhatia@gmail.com
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Work Preference
Prefered Working Location
Sydney, NSW
Work Preference
WIP
Expertise & Skills
Primary Expertise
Technology
Secondary Expertise
Business Operations
Seniority Level
15 - 20 years
Key Skill
Accountability,Active listening,Attention to detail,Brainstorming,Coaching,Coding,Collaboration,Compassion,Computing,Confidence,Conflict resolution,Creative thinking,Critical thinking,Documenting,Earning trust,Engineering,Evaluating,Experimenting,Goal-setting,Influencing
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