About

Bharath Harish is a seasoned product professional with over 12 years of experience in building and scaling B2B tech products, B2B SaaS products, and business backend and operations products. He has a strong background in AI and ML-driven products and has successfully built and scaled data science, experimentation, customer data, and trust and safety platforms at CRED, where he currently leads the product team. Prior to CRED, Bharath worked as a Product Manager at Walmart, where he led the product for the pre-built AI services charter, building and scaling many AI services like text extraction, classifiers, anomaly detection, etc. He improved adoption of these services across multiple businesses and scaled overall traffic from ~1Mn/year to ~5Mn/year in just 15 months, directly impacting overall cost reduction for Walmart to a tune of approx ~1.5Mn/quarter. He was also part of the product team that managed Walmart's native machine learning platform called element.ai, which served as a one-stop ML platform for all data scientists and engineers to build, deploy, and manage ML at scale. Bharath also worked as a Product Manager at Bosch, where he led product development activities for a computer vision-based visitor analytics platform for retailers. He was responsible for hands-on ownership right from concept development to building an MVP, conducted over 200 customer interviews to derive valuable insights on problems and problems worth solving with massive business potential, cleared the Bosch accelerator program for startups and made the product ready to be incubated as a potential business line, and developed a deep customer empathy, understood problem areas, developed an MVP, and monetized the MVP within 18 months since inception. Bharath holds an MBA in Finance from Symbiosis and a B.E in Electronics and Communications from Vishveshwaraiah Technological University. His tech stack includes AI, ML, product management, data science, backend, and computer vision. With his relevant experience of 12.27 years, Bharath is a highly skilled and accomplished product professional who is passionate about building innovative and impactful products that drive business growth and customer satisfaction.