Bhav Bhela

New York, NY, USA

Founder | Product, DevOps, SRE, Data, and Infra

I'm a startup fanatic obsessed with building delightful user experiences, frictionless developer experiences, and high-performing development teams. I've:

- built products from 0 to 1

- from 1 to scale

- architected highly distributed and heavily trafficked systems

- created lasting processes and teams to support all of the above

My mission is to help everyone build faster and better - so people can put their time, money, and energy toward what really matters. Open to Fractional CTO and startup advising.

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Work

10Clear - Automated 10-Q & 10-K SEC Filing Reviews
10clear is an AI-enabled review platform that evaluates financial statements for compliance and data accuracy. The platform serves B2B and B2B2B customers.

As CTO, I build the product hands-on from 0 -> 1 and manage the engineering team. I built the prototype in 1 week and the beta in 1 month.

We are currently launching to our 1st cohort of registered users this month.
10clear.com
Above Software
Above Software is a consulting and contracting company focused on building human-centric, bespoke SAAS apps.

I founded the company and work with several clients. For one client, I setup a cloud environment from 0 to 1 and built out an auth'ed 3-tiered internal web app that saved their legal analysts 100’s of hours in the creation of legal reports using JS, TS, React, NextJS, Python, pydocx, and AWS.
Compass
Compass is a real estate brokerage with a focus on agent-facing productivity SAAS.

At Compass, I spent the majority of my time on backend, data and infrastructure, helping the company grow from NYC to every major US metro. The work was less end-user visible, but addressed huge growing pains like:
- monolith on a single VM -> 1000+ containerized microservices on Kubernetes
- etl pipelines processing 10's of millions of listings and ~1 billion events
- integration and creation of observability, security, and governance platforms
compass.com
iRobot (Ava Robotics)
Ava is a telepresence robot that allows remote users to easily and safely navigate through offsite locations like event spaces, hospitals, and manufacturing locations.

I owned the collection, visualization, and monitoring of robotic health telemetry data in its early development stages while it was still a part of iRobot.com.

The product split out from iRobot and is currently a successful vc-backed company.
avarobotics.com

Experience

10clear
Founder, CTO
Sep 2023 - Present
10clear is an AI-enabled review platform that evaluates financial statements for compliance and data accuracy. The platform serves B2B and B2B2B customers.
- Built prototype in 1 week, leading to 5 companies expressing interest in the solution.
- Built alpha product consisting of functional frontend, backend and data systems in 1 month, leading to ~10 companies registering for beta.
Above Software
Owner
May 2023 - Present
Above Software is an consulting and contracting company focused on building human-centric, bespoke SAAS apps.
- Built a web app that saved legal analysts 100’s of hours in the creation of legal reports.
- Setup AWS from 0 to 1, architecting network topology, federated auth, compute and storage strategy.
Compass
Software Engineering Manager
Dec 2021 - Sep 2022
Compass is a real estate brokerage with a focus on agent-facing productivity SAAS.
- Managed the Cloud Infrastructure and Cost Management teams responsible for business critical cloud infrastructure and its corresponding vendor cost. These ownership domains powered nearly all 1000+ microservices comprising the compass.com platform, serving ~1M consumers, ~25k agents, and 1000+ engineers.
- Worked cross-functionally with the FP&A department, to manage 3rd Party vendor spend such as AWS (Cloud), Datadog (Telemetry) saving over 40% (10's of millions / year).
- Managed 2 distributed teams (8 people) across 4 time zones, holding regular 1:1s focused on performance management, career growth, and actionable feedback.
- Conducted 100’s of interviews and debrief loops, leading to the hire of several high performing employees.
- Collaborated with other leaders to deliver on cross-team projects design and architecture such as support portal, multi-domain host-based routing support, secure secrets, cluster upgrades, cluster rebuilds, spot instances, and incident management.
- Acted as incident commander or primary resolver for 10’s of high-profile business-critical SEV-1 incidents.
- Built the teams’ roadmaps and vision, aligning the team’s, partner team’s, the organization’s, and the company’s interests.
- Grew engineers to higher roles and responsibilities by delegating project ideation, proposal, and delivery to team members, resulting in 656% increase in completion of ticketed work and a turnaround in the team’s reputation.
Compass
Technical Lead
Aug 2016 - Dec 2021
Compass is a real estate brokerage with a focus on agent-facing productivity SAAS.
- Capacity planned for IPO, supporting an 8x traffic spike on 10+ Kuberenetes clusters, 120+ EC2 instances, and 6000+ pods.
- Delivered on Flask and Mongo zero downtime migration reducing SEV-1 + SEV-2 incident rates by 89%.
- Containerized and re-architected 10's of partner team's grpc microservices from EC2 to Kubernetes, reducing p95 latency by 95% across 25-44% of all backend traffic at Compass and a reduction in deployment time of 67-80%.
- Developed ETL and dashboard framework from MVP to a stable product, processing nearly billions of records daily.
- Wrote the 1st postmortem at Compass which became the standard and evangelized the postmortem process across engineering.
- Defined our kubernetes cluster architecture and topology leading to a 94% reduction in YoY cluster-related SEV-2+ incidents.
- Created an interview question framework used by 100+ engineers at Compass to calibrate their interview questions.
- Built out several of our core microservices including transit, user, and email sending services, handing 10's req/s.
- Owned and maintained our python language, grpc, and containerization monorepo tooling used by 1000's applications.
- Collected, monitored and visualized scores of telemetry data across all applications and clusters using prometheus, datadog.
iRobot
Software Engineer
Dec 2013 - Jun 2014
iRobot is a global consumer robot company that designs and builds thoughtful robots and intelligent home innovations that make life better.
- Architected and implemented the collection, visualization, and monitoring of realtime health telemetry data of our Ava robotics fleet.
- Added an easter egg that allowed Ava robots do 180's using gestures in our iphone app.