Hi there!
My name is Bharathi Shekar, and I am a product manager-cum-coder. This is my little corner on the web.
I have
- held Product & Engineering roles at multiple companies (Zeta, Ola, Yahoo, Sun Microsystems).
- moonlighted on a bunch of SaaS products & e-commerce services.
- many patents as an inventor.
- been a world cinema aficionado and an occasional in-house editor.
Side Hustles
SameTyme was an appointment fulfilment (not booking) service in Bangalore. It scaled to 20K+ fulfilled appointments before shutting down. Details.
EasyMilk was a first of its kind e-commerce subscription service. It serviced 10K+ households at its peak in Hyderabad. Details.
ZukZukOne: TV ScreenTime awareness app using computer vision on the edge. Details.
Shulkam was a low cost money & material tracking system for SMBs.
Cognibloom was a micro-learning focused online evaluation tool.
Innovations
17 patents granted (some expired!!) spanning
- computer vision.
- user location.
- data analytics.
- social.
- search.
Defensive publications
My thinking on innovation in the sharing economy.
Movies
Cubicle Talkies was a conversational style blog where Harish, Karthick and I analysed movies from world cinema. See our top recommended list.
Save Power to Empower: A small video that I directed, wrote and edited.
Suraj & Samhita’s bet: An attempt at story telling using video clips from a real event.
Skopje, Tetovo, Ohrid: An experiment in Montage style editing.
Leonidas, The Spartan King: An experiment in Parallel Editing.