Bharat Guruprakash

Bharat leads Algolia's product organization to provide customers with an expansive platform of APIs to create composable applications that empower them to deliver rich, personalized, and dynamic digital experiences in real time to end consumers.

Before signing on with Algolia, Bharat spent five years at cloud communications platform leader Twilio. Most recently, he served as general manager of Twilio account security, the upstack authentication and verification business for Twilio. In this role, he owned the authentication and verification steps that an end consumer goes through every time they engage with a brand. Before that, Bharat was senior director of product management and engineering, leading the product strategy for Twilio becoming fully omni-channel and migrating upstack in a developer-friendly way.

Prior to Twilio, Bharat served as vice president of product at Bitcasa, where he led the product management, visual design & UX, and technical support teams. While at Bitcasa, he led the company’s pivot from a purely consumer business to a developer-led B2B2C platform. Bharat also held product and engineering management roles at Samsung and Digi International.