Guru Bhat Top-Executive
• I am a passionate technologist who is lucky to be part of the tech industry at a time when there is so much opportunity to create positive impact in the world through technology. I am insatiably curious and committed to using my extensive experience gained working at some of the world's most amazing companies to #DoWellByDoingGood.
• I am also a culture champion who transforms organizational culture and creates high-performance, committed, collaborative, passionate and HAPPY workplaces that are rich in trust and relentlessly driven to help customers succeed.
• I am currently the Sr. Director of Engineering for the Information Retrieval team at Google, where our work directly aids Google's Mission to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful. Specifically, the teams I serve build planet-scale data processing systems for Data Acquisition, Semantic Understanding and Data Indexing. My previous role at Google was as an Engineering Lead in the Android organization.
• I also serve Google as the Site Lead for Google Bangalore - one of Google's largest sites globally with 10k+ Googlers contributing to Google's mission.
• I was previously the VP of Customer Success Platforms for PayPal and responsible for Product Management and Engineering for all technology delivering customer success. I was also the General Manager of PayPal's India Centers (7000+ employees) in Bangalore, Chennai and Hyderabad leading various platform engineering teams that power Merchant Data Products, Dispute Resolution Experiences, Transaction Orchestration and Planning.
• Before that I was at Ericsson R&D India heading a development unit building IMS and Cloud products and Head of R&D Operations for Ericsson R&D India.
• Was the Managing Director, India Operations for Serus Corporation and previously held Senior Architecture positions at Sun Microsystems, Oracle and SAP.
• Significant experience building highly secure, reliable, near-Realtime intelligent distributed systems that operate at the bleeding edge of scale.
• General Management experience with all aspects of establishing and maturing an R&D Center in India.
• Leadership experience involving leading large organizations with geographically dispersed and cross-functional product teams in the US, Canada, Sweden, Germany, Hungary, China, Taiwan, Singapore, UK and India.
Headquarters:
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
Title:
Senior Director of Engineering, AI Foundations
Company:
Google
Company Industry:
Computer Software
Company Website:
https://goo.gle/3dleokh, http://www.shankaracancerhospitals.org, https://www.theloops.io/
Company Linkedin:
linkedin.com/company/google
Company Size:
10001+
Current Job Duration:
7 mos
Country:
India
Languages:
Hindi, Kannada, Tamil, Telugu
Work Experience:
Title: Google
Company: Google
Company URL: https://www.linkedin.com/company/google/
Industry: Computer Software
Company Size: 10001+
Location: None
Country: None
Employment Type: None
Start At: 06-2025
Ends At: Present
Description: None
Title: Member of the Board of Advisors
Company: Sri Shankara Cancer Hospital & Research Centre
Company URL: https://www.linkedin.com/company/shankara-cancer-hospital-research-centre/
Industry: Hospital & Health Care
Company Size: 501-1000
Location: Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
Country: None
Employment Type: None
Start At: 05-2024
Ends At: Present
Description: None
Title: Advisory Board Member
Company: Ifs Loops
Company URL: https://www.linkedin.com/company/theloops/
Industry: Internet
Company Size: 11-50
Location: San Francisco Bay Area
Country: None
Employment Type: None
Start At: 12-2022
Ends At: Present
Description: None
Title: Member Of The Board Of Advisors
Company: Great Manager Institute®
Company URL: https://www.linkedin.com/company/greatmanagerinstitute/
Industry: Management Consulting
Company Size: 11-50
Location: Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
Country: None
Employment Type: None
Start At: 04-2021
Ends At: 11-2024
Description: None
Title: PayPal
Company: Paypal
Company URL: https://www.linkedin.com/company/paypal/
Industry: Computer Software
Company Size: 10001+
Location: None
Country: None
Employment Type: None
Start At: 02-2020
Ends At: 03-2023
Description: I serve the Customer Success Platform organization. My team builds technology that serves PayPal's 430 million+ (and counting) customers when they interact with PayPal in the context of Sales, Marketing and Customer Support., I serve the team that builds the Customer Success platform for PayPal. With over 430 million customers in 200+ markets around the world, PayPal prides itself on providing experiences that power customer success on our platforms. The next-gen platforms that my teams build meet customer service needs across a variety of channels including Chatbot, Chat, Voice, Asynchronous Messaging and Self-Service. Our platform aims to resolve customer pain efficiently, effectively, and proactively using AI/ML to accurately predict a customer's likelihood to need help and the intent behind seeking help. Our platforms also equip our customer support agents with tools to resolve customer pain and deliver delight quickly and comprehensively., I serve the engineering teams that enable PayPal's Dispute Management capabilities and Merchant Data Product capabilities for over 270 million customers worldwide. I am also the General Manager of PayPal's tech centers in Chennai, Bangalore and Hyderabad and serve over 3500 colleagues in these three centers., I serve the engineering teams that build platforms that provide PayPal's millions of merchants access to Reports (real-time and batch), Transaction Activity Feed and Data Insights on their business metrics. The platforms that my teams build are distributed, highly available and operate at scale to deliver millions of reports every day/month as well as in real-time. My teams also build products through which millions of merchants can access real-time transcation activity information as well as data driven insights to grow their business with PayPal., I serve the engineering teams that build the platforms that power dispute resolution experiences and API for millions of (280 million and growing) merchants and consumers around the world. If you've ever disputed a transaction that you paid for using PayPal - you've used the products that my teams build., Was part of the cross-functional team that launched PayPal in India on November 8th 2017. Worked across all domains in PayPal to pioneer "inner-sourcing" where my engineers contributed across various platform teams at PayPal to bring PayPal's global platform capabilities to India and further empower the digital payments revolution sweeping across the nation., I serve the engineering teams that built the core transaction processing platform for PayPal. My teams built the platform that handles almost all PayPal transaction volume (nearly 500 billion dollars of Total Payment Volume flowing through our system) by planning funding instrument selection and orchestrating the payment's flow through downstream components as well as risk analysis with minimal latency. Platforms that operate at the highest levels of availability, performance and scale to power the best payments company in the world.
Title: Chairman of the Board of Directors
Company: None
Company URL: None
Industry: None
Company Size: None
Location: Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
Country: None
Employment Type: None
Start At: 09-2016
Ends At: 03-2023
Description: None
Title: Ericsson
Company: Ericsson
Company URL: https://www.linkedin.com/company/ericsson/
Industry: Telecommunications
Company Size: 10001+
Location: None
Country: None
Employment Type: None
Start At: 01-2015
Ends At: 10-2015
Description: Responsible for development of Ericsson’s Multimedia Telephony Application Server product from Bangalore., Responsible for organizational efficiency and effectiveness.
Title: Senior Director and India Development Center Head
Company: None
Company URL: None
Industry: None
Company Size: None
Location: Bengaluru Area, India
Country: None
Employment Type: None
Start At: 05-2010
Ends At: 12-2011
Description: None
Title: Architect
Company: Sap
Company URL: https://www.linkedin.com/company/sap/
Industry: Computer Software
Company Size: 10001+
Location: Bengaluru Area, India
Country: None
Employment Type: None
Start At: 10-2007
Ends At: 05-2010
Description: None
Title: Development Manager and SOA Management Architect
Company: Oracle
Company URL: https://www.linkedin.com/company/oracle/
Industry: Information Technology And Services
Company Size: 10001+
Location: Greater Boston Area
Country: None
Employment Type: None
Start At: 04-2003
Ends At: 10-2007
Description: None
Education:
School: University at Buffalo
Degree: MS
Field: Computer Science
Period: 1995 - 1997
School: University of Mysore
Degree: B.E.
Field: Computer Science
Period: 1990 - 1994
Headline:
Sr. Director of Engineering, AI Foundations | Site Lead, Google Bangalore
Followers:
49712
Connections:
11726
Skills:
Solaris, Enterprise Software, Oracle, Unix, SaaS, Software as a Service (SaaS), Board of Directors, Agile Methodologies, Cloud Computing, Software Development, Management, General Management, SOA, Product Development, Web Applications, Java Enterprise Edition, Web Services, Distributed Systems, Software Project Management, Product Management, Solution Architecture, Business Intelligence, Strategic Planning, Architectures, Change Management, Architecture, Integration, Enterprise Architecture, Pre-sales, Software Engineering, Strategy, Operational Excellence, Public Speaking, System Architecture, Requirements Analysis, SDLC, Building Strong Teams, IT Strategy, High Performance Teams, Scrum, Agile Project Management, Operations
Experience:
Title: Site Lead, Google Bangalore
Company: Google
Location: Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
Start: Jul 2025
End: Present
Title: Senior Director of Engineering, AI Foundations
Company: Google
Location: Bengaluru
Start: Jun 2025
End: Present
Title: Senior Director of Engineering, Android
Company: Google
Location: Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
Start: Mar 2023
End: Jul 2025
Title: Member of the Board of Advisors
Company: Shankara Cancer Hospitals
Location: Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
Start: May 2024
End: Present
Title: Advisory Board Member
Company: TheLoops
Location: San Francisco Bay Area
Start: Dec 2022
End: Present
Title: Member Of The Board Of Advisors
Company: Great Manager Institute
Location: Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
Start: Apr 2021
End: Nov 2024
Title: Vice President Customer Success Platform
Company: PayPal
Location: Bangalore Urban, Karnataka, India
Start: Feb 2020
End: Mar 2023
Title: VP Customer Success Platform and GM, PayPal India
Company: PayPal
Location: Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
Start: Feb 2020
End: Apr 2022
Title: VP of Engineering and GM Technology
Company: PayPal
Location: Bengaluru Area, India
Start: Apr 2019
End: Feb 2020
Title: VP Engineering - Merchant Data Products
Company: PayPal
Location: Bengaluru Area, India
Start: Feb 2018
End: Feb 2020
Title: VP Engineering- Resolution Experiences Platform
Company: PayPal
Location: Chennai Area, India
Start: Feb 2018
End: Feb 2020
Title: GM Technology and Head of Engineering
Company: PayPal
Location: Bengaluru Area, India
Start: Nov 2015
End: Apr 2019
Title: Sr. Director Engineering- PayPal for India
Company: PayPal
Location: Bengaluru Area, India
Start: Dec 2016
End: Feb 2018
Title: Sr. Director Engineering - Transaction Orchestration and Planning Platforms
Company: PayPal
Location: San Francisco Bay Area
Start: Sep 2016
End: Jul 2017
Title: Chairman of the Board of Directors
Company: PayPal India Pvt. Limited
Location: Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
Start: Sep 2016
End: Mar 2023
Title: Head of Engineering - Cloud and Network Functions R&D India
Company: Ericsson
Location: Bangalore
Start: Jan 2015
End: Oct 2015
Title: Head - R&D Operations
Company: Ericsson
Location: Bangalore, India
Start: Dec 2011
End: Jan 2015
Title: Senior Director and India Development Center Head
Company: Serus Corporation
Location: Bengaluru Area, India
Start: May 2010
End: Dec 2011
Title: Architect
Company: SAP Labs
Location: Bengaluru Area, India
Start: Oct 2007
End: May 2010
Title: Development Manager and SOA Management Architect
Company: Oracle
Location: Greater Boston Area
Start: Apr 2003
End: Oct 2007
Title: Senior Software Engineer
Company: Sun Microsystems
Location: Greater Boston Area
Start: Jun 1997
End: Apr 2003
Title: Senior Software Engineer
Company: Sasken
Location:
Start: 1994
End: 1995