About

Mayuresh Bakshi is a technologist, entrepreneur, and product guy with almost 20 years of experience in building products from concept to customers. He is the founder of Brainizen, a hyperlocal social commerce platform that connects buyers and sellers in their local communities. Mayuresh has worked in multiple roles, from product architect to evangelist to presales, and has gained breadth into product building while working with companies like Cisco and Juniper. He has also gained deep consumer insights while working with visionary startups like Arista and Nevis. Mayuresh is a hands-on programmer who is always up for learning new technologies that make a difference in how products are built. He specializes in new product architecture, design, and development and is highly adaptable to technology shifts. His areas of expertise include distributed systems, Python/Django, iOS and Android app development, stateful (flow-based) L3-L7 services, network processor, multi-core/multi-threaded programming, Linux kernel programming, control/data plane development, new protocols architecture/development, TCP/IP, stateful firewall, ALGs, Carrier Grade NAT, and IPv6 transition solutions. Mayuresh has a PGDST degree in Software Technology from the National Center for Software Technology and has also completed on-campus courses in Innovation Through Design Thinking and Principles of Product/Market Fit from Stanford University. He has worked as an advisor for various startups and as a software engineer for Arista, where he was part of the journey from startup to IPO and beyond. He worked on a wide range of features from platform, protocols to configuration management, internal tools, and portal development. He also worked on prototyping some of the ideas and engaged with early customers. Mayuresh is passionate about the impact of technological revolutions on human life and is excited to build products that enhance productivity and efficiency. He is always looking for new product ideas and solutions and is committed to delivering products that customers need. Mayuresh can be found on Twitter at @bakshim.