# Bharat S. > Founding Engineer @ Lightswitch Location: New York, New York, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/bharats ## Work Experience ### Founding Engineer @ Lightswitch Jan 2026 – Present | New York, NY ### Head of Engineering @ SailPlan Jan 2023 – Jan 2026 | New York, United States Running the engineering organization at SailPlan: a marine fleet observability and sustainability data platform. Designing, developing and deploying our solution from end-to-end, starting with instrumentation and data acquisition at the edge, all the way to business intelligence and customer dashboards, and everything in between. Managing customer implementation and deployment while maintaining hands-on technical contributions on critical systems. Managing a team of engineers distributed worldwide, alongside contributing to product/GTM strategy, and managing customer implementation and deployment, reporting directly to the CEO ### Founding Engineer @ SailPlan Jan 2022 – Jan 2023 | New York, United States Built SailPlan's core technology from the ground up as the founding engineer. Designed, developed and field-deployed the complete data system: on-vessel edge compute and instrumentation hardware, ship-to-shore communication systems (LTE and SATCOM), and cloud-native analytics platform (AWS + MongoDB). Architected embedded IoT hardware and software distributed across vessel subsystems to interface with onboard sensors and automation systems for real-time operational data collection and transmission. Developed highly available data ingestion pipeline for near-real-time fleet telemetry and data warehousing. Built machine learning models for fuel consumption, fuel combustion and greenhouse gas emissions, and voyage planning. Led pilot programs to establish product-market fit through operational efficiency analysis and voyage optimization insights. Established the foundational technical team and hiring practices. ### Senior Software Engineer - Trade Automation @ Bloomberg LP Jan 2021 – Jan 2022 | New York, New York, United States Senior software engineer handling Rule-Builder (RBLD) feature development and delivery, in support of Bloomberg Terminal mission-critical distributed trading applications (EMSX/TSOX/FXEM). Highlights included prototyping new event-based processing pipeline architecture, adding observability with distributed trace, and containerizing services and subsystems to aid in rapid development across teams. Also served as a technical and cultural mentor for junior engineers. ### Senior Software Engineer - Ticker Plant @ Bloomberg LP Jan 2019 – Jan 2021 | New York, New York, United States Ticker Plant – Market Data Distribution Senior software engineer developing high-throughput, low-latency distributed platform in C++ and Python for market data delivery to the Bloomberg Terminal and Professional Service. Contributed to key strategic effort to reduce end-to-end latency of data pipeline, resulting in 75% reduction to latency during data spikes in peak trading hours. Responsible for full SDLC, including product roadmap and feature planning, to continuous integration, deployment and maintenance of client-facing features. ### Lead Embedded Systems Engineer @ Hyperloop One Jan 2017 – Jan 2019 | Greater Los Angeles Area Embedded software developer and solutions architect for both on-board (passenger pod) and wayside control systems in the first-ever fully operation Hyperloop prototype. Instrumental in design and execution of embedded architecture, as well as test campaigns culminating in a top speed of 260mph within 300m of propulsion. Beyond the successful prototype, responsibilities included continuing design of control architecture and coordination with hardware teams, establishing best practices for SDLC across the embedded and cloud software organizations, and contributing to vendor evaluation/selection. ### Embedded Engineer @ Qualcomm Jan 2014 – Jan 2017 | Greater San Diego Area Embedded Engineer on the core BSP organization, supporting delivery of the second-stage boot-loader – UEFI – for Snapdragon 810, 820, and 825 products. Involved in board-level development, debugging, and bringup of new SoC generations, with an emphasis on ARM fundamentals and performance optimizations. Highlights include supporting transition from 32-bit to 64-bit architecture, secure provisioning and storage solution using ARM TrustZone, and boot-time performance optimization resulting in a 70% decrease in Android boot times. ### Interim Engineering Intern @ Qualcomm Jan 2013 – Jan 2013 Firmware Development (C, Trace32 Debugger): - Wrote applications and implemented improvements for UEFI development and debugging on Snapdragon 800 chipset Boot Integration Automation Suite (Python): - Used and created multiple python interfaces to developer tools: Version control programs and databases, Outlook - Required understanding tools, utilizing command line interfaces, deciphering APIs, interfacing with other teams, intense regular expression error checking and handling. ### Embedded Intern @ Adeneo Embedded Jan 2012 – Jan 2012 | Bellevue, WA Firmware - Worked with Freescale i.MX53 and i.MX6 boards - Evaluated condition of drivers implemented with the Board Support Package Sales Management Tool (web-based) - Created system for sales personnel to keep track of sales contacts/quotes - MySQL database backend, PHP/AJAX for in-page editing and filtering. - Python for parsing excel into database, exporting DB info to excel (xls/csv) ### Technical Intern @ MIndbloom Jan 2009 – Jan 2009 | Seattle, WA - Implemented Payment System for online product - Created Ruby code for dynamic updates of database of beta testers and prospective customers - Worked on debugging of Beta product, user interface of website, information base (FAQ’s). ## Education ### Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Engineering University of Michigan ### High School Lakeside School, Seattle, WA ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/bhsrinivasan - Website: http://umich.edu/~bsrini - Website: http://michiganrowing.org/roster/bharat-srinivasan/ --- Source: https://flows.cv/bharats JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/bharats/resume.json Last updated: 2026-04-05