Shrirang Bhate

ENGINEERING MANAGER · RECOVERING FOUNDER (TECHSTARS 24)

Somewhere between code and people. Currently responsible for other people's pull requests, with Claude quietly making the whole thing a bit weird.

Based in Munich, Germany.

Experience

Engineering Manager

Qwello ↗May 2025 — Present

Shipping mobile apps, wrangling hardware integrations, and keeping the engineering teams moving forward. Just with more meetings and organisational stuff in between.

Co-founder and CTO

Chapter ↗Sep 2023 — Apr 2025

Built an open-source GTM tool for dev tool companies, starting with a spreadsheet someone was already willing to pay for. Grew it into a SaaS product with paying customers, including YC-backed startups in SF, reaching 4-figure MRR within six months.

CTO

Doctorflix ↗Nov 2022 — Aug 2023

Built product analytics that helped drive 15% week-over-week user growth. Helped raise a $2.3M seed round, pitching investors and owning technical due diligence.

Senior Engineering Manager

e-bot7 (Now Liveperson Nasdaq: LPSN) ↗Oct 2021 — Sep 2022

Led two teams of 14 people, building one from scratch and scaling integrations at a conversational AI startup. Helped drive the adoption of Kubernetes, GitOps, and DORA metrics.

Tech Lead Engineer

Axiros ↗May 2015 — Apr 2021

Built an IoT cloud platform for device management and third-party integrations, eventually scaling it to 15M devices through a platform-wide rearchitecture. Also implemented parts of the BSI Smart Meter Gateway specification with TUM and Fraunhofer ESK.

Software Engineer

Cuculus ↗Nov 2012 — May 2015

Built services to ingest and process smart meter data using SML and DLMS, getting my first taste of the energy industry.

Tech Lead

2Wire (now CommScope Nasdaq: COMM) ↗Apr 2010 — Oct 2012

Led a team building firmware for millions of home gateways used by customers like AT&T. Worked hands-on with WLAN drivers for Broadcom and Lantiq chipsets, and customised open-source networking services.

Software Engineer

Symantec (now Broadcomm Nasdaq: AVGO) ↗Jan 2007 — Nov 2009

Built Linux data collection modules for Symantec's compliance tools, covering standards like NSA and COBIT. Monitored CVEs and built detection signatures for emerging vulnerabilities.

Software Engineer

National Stock Exchange of India ↗May 2005 — Dec 2006

Worked on a real-time risk monitoring system that used MPI (Message Passing Interface) to calculate trade-level risk in parallel and check trades against traders' available collateral.

Education

MSc. Computer Science

University of Mumbai ↗2023 — 2005