Harsha Bhat

Harsha Bhat is an accomplished technology leader with extensive experience in the financial technology sector. Currently serving as Vice President of Engineering at Coinbase, Harsha focuses on building scalable and secure crypto exchanges. Previously, leadership included roles such as CTO and Co-Founder of FairX, where innovative low latency futures exchanges were developed, and Senior Vice President/CTO at State Street, overseeing significant trading platforms and managing large engineering teams. Harsha’s career also includes engineering management positions at Synopsys Inc., Everest Design Automation, Silicon Graphics, and Ansoft Corporation, with a strong educational background in Computer Science from the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, and the University of Rhode Island.