Ashish Bhatia

Experience

Exit

Software Engineer 2014 - 2018 (over 4 years)

Developing on Android for emerging markets.
- WhatsApp Android app - Designed and integrated Google Drive backup of user content which is being used by 40% of all users.... more

Palo Alto Networks

Senior Staff Software Engineer 2013 - 2014 (8 months)

Part of the 10 members team acquired by Palo Alto Networks. Morta Security was a startup that developed a new paradigm to counter advanced network threats.
- Created a... more

Google

Software Engineer 2010 - 2013 (almost 3 years)

Worked on Google Safe Browsing team on various aspects of computer security.
- Founding engineer on Android app scanning product, called Google Bouncer for Google Play.
-Built... more

Software Engineer- Intern 2008 (2 months)

Worked on Memory testing algorithm in assembly to test DIMM. Project open-sourced and available at http://code.google.com/p/stressapptest/

Employee

Google, Palo Alto Networks, WhatsApp, Kritikal Solutions, Intellecap, Celo, Wemby, Replai, Center, Center Pixel, Joveo, Elucidate, Delightree, Various Startups, Various, Stylework, Boon

Projects

ashishb.net

A blog about technology, travels, personal finance, and book

A blog about technology, travels, personal finance, and books. Prime readership of this blog consists of educated millennials.

ADB Enhanced - Swiss-army knife for Android testing and development

adb-enhanced - ADB enhanced for developers

Education

About

Achievements

Ashish is a technical leader with hands-on experience in building software (backend, frontend, mobile apps, cryptocurrencies). His open-source work can be seen at https://github.com/ashishb.

Ashish has worked as the CTO of Center (NFT APIs-as-a-service) and Software Engineer at Celo (in cryptocurrencies), Facebook & WhatsApp (Android), and as a founding engineer on Google's Android app scanning product, called Google Bouncer (backend engineering). Ashish was a part of the Morta Security team that was acquired by Palo Alto Networks.

Ashish currently holds technical advisory roles at multiple startups, including Outdefine, Hood, Elucidate, and Stylework. He is an investor in 40+ startups with 9 exits. More of his technology work and blog posts can be seen at https://ashishb.net/about

Describe the most impressive thing you've done.

Skills

Programming C++ Python Ruby Linux Algorithms Android Python Information Security Go Vue.Js Web3 MySQL jQuery ASP.NET React Native React.js XHTML Solana TypeScript Kotlin Kubernetes Shell Scripting PHP Assembly Redis Git GraphQL Mac OS AJAX Natural Language Processing LLMs Solidity Nft CSS Java Ruby on Rails Blockchain Node.js Playwright .NET SQL Bash C HTML Google Cloud Platform C# Docker LINQ Deep Learning Grpc Verilog Javascript Unix PostgreSQL Ethereum SQLite AI AWS Oracle Database

Locations

San Francisco San Jose Palo Alto Mountain View

Q&A

What's the most useful business-related book you've ever read?

The score takes care of itself (https://ashishb.net/book-summary/book-summary-the-score-takes-care-of-itself-my-philosophy-of-leadership/)

What's your favorite non-business book?

Man's search for meaning (https://ashishb.net/book-summary/book-summary-mans-search-for-meaning/)

If money were not an issue, what would you be doing right now?

Still writing code since I love doing that.

What's the best way for people to get in touch with you?

Email me [email protected]

Ashish Bhatia

- Technical Advisor to 6 startups - Worked at @whatsapp, @google, @celo - Investor - @authy, @cirrosecure, @intellivision-1, @minjar, @makeleaps

- Technical Advisor to 6 startups
- Worked at @whatsapp, @google, @celo
- Investor - @authy, @cirrosecure, @intellivision-1, @minjar, @makeleaps