# Darshan Bhatta

> CTO @ OctoShop (acq by Ibotta) | Staff Eng @ Ibotta | UT Austin CS '22

Location: Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/darshan

Entrepreneur who loves bringing ideas to life. Feel free to check out my projects at darshanbhatta.com.

## Work Experience
### Staff Engineer @ Ibotta, Inc.
Jan 2022 – Present
Browser Extension

### Contract Software Engineer @ Ibotta, Inc.
Jan 2021 – Jan 2022
- Joined as a contractor after the OctoShop acquisition
- Integrated OctoShop's revolutionary Price Comparison and Item Tracking features into the Ibotta Browser Extension

### Co-Founder & CTO @ Instok
Jan 2020 – Jan 2021 | Dallas/Fort Worth Area
Acquired by Ibotta!

• InStok helps users find what they need in-stock at the best prices that acquired over 800K users and was featured on ABC and USA Today and more
• OctoShop helps users find the best deal while shopping online with a suite of tools including automatic price comparisons, restock and price drop alerts, price history, and cashback with over 100K active users and is featured as Editor’s pick on the front page of the Chrome Web Store
• Bootstrapped with $300k+ ARR to being acquired by Ibotta in a multi-million dollar acquisition in under two years
• Led, architected, and built out a highly scalable price comparison and tracking engine, serving 1B+ requests a month

### Software Engineer @ Esports One
Jan 2019 – Jan 2021 | Austin, Texas Area
• Designed and engineered a custom esports prediction system that enhanced the company’s main product
• Constructed a web dashboard for OneBot that expanded user interactions outside of Discord
• Utilized languages and technologies such as Node.js, Kubernetes, React, MySQL and MongoDB

### Software Engineer Intern @ Roblox
Jan 2021 – Jan 2021 | Dallas/Fort Worth Area
• Developed on the backend on the Search and Discovery Platform team
• Designed and implemented a cross-cluster ingestion pipeline validator service that boosted awareness and response time to any issues using C#, .NET and Elasticsearch
• Built custom events and set up alerts and graphs in Prometheus for the service to easily visualize inconsistencies and get alerted on any major divergences in the ingestion pipelines

### Software Engineer Intern @ Cloudflare, Inc.
Jan 2020 – Jan 2020 | Dallas/Fort Worth Area
• Developed on the full stack of Cloudflare TV
• Built a newly designed broadcasting center for presenters and admins in order to streamline livestream management using TypeScript and React
• Designed and implemented an automatic schedule generator with a built-in ranking system to ensure each episode in the catalog get equal airtime that saved over 20 hours of manual work a week TypeScript, Vue, and GraphQL

### Creator @ Independent Android Developer
Jan 2016 – Jan 2020 | Dallas/Fort Worth Area
• Published multiple apps to the Google Play Store and received over 1 million downloads in total
• Designed and developed all apps from the ground up from UI/UX, marketing, analytics to database, server backend and push notifications
• Utilized languages and technologies such as Java, MongoDB, Node.js, Firebase, Adobe Xd

### Software Engineer Intern @ Surfboard
Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 | Dallas/Fort Worth Area
• Designed and implemented an OpenGL solution for Android camera recording that decreased video processing time by 40%
• Built a feature that allows for the placement and rendering of GIFs onto a recorded video
• Utilized languages and technologies such as Java, Kotlin, OpenGL, SQLite


## Education
### Bachelor of Science - BS in Computer Science
The University of Texas at Austin
Jan 2019 – Jan 2022

### High School Diploma
Coppell High School
Jan 2015 – Jan 2019


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/darshanbhatta
- Website: https://darshanbhatta.com/

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Last updated: 2026-03-22