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Rajeev Bharshetty

AI-native Engineering at Rippling

Bengaluru

10+ years of work experience

Rippling
Feb 20267 mosPresent

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

At Rippling, I lead the AI Governance engineering charter, building enterprise-grade tools that empower our customers to safely, securely, and efficiently integrate AI into their daily operations. My core focus is driving tangible customer ROI—helping businesses significantly reduce costs and streamline workflows by unlocking the power of LLMs and agentic capabilities. I thrive on rapid, strategic execution; recently, my team architected and delivered the MCP Gateway from concept to Beta in just six weeks, and we are currently finalizing the architectural vision for our AI Gateway's Alpha launch this July. By bridging the gap between complex distributed systems and clear business value, I focus on fostering high-performing engineering cultures that build the next generation of scalable AI infrastructure.
CRED
Jun 20232 yrs 9 mosFeb 2026

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

making consumer payment experience at CRED fast, stable, and reliable. working on everything UPI at CRED.
GoTo Financial
Sep 20211 yr 10 mosJun 2023

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Payment experience team aims to make payments fast, reliable and safe. Payment experience team works on integrating with Merchant partners across on-demand services, offline and online modes to enable these merchant partners to accept payments from their customers. Payment experience team also works in making sure to add a lot of payment methods through strategic integrations with payment providers to enable customers to have the flexibility in choosing the payment method when making payments. Payment experience team works as a bridge between our Merchant partners and Payment providers and aims to achieve higher payment acceptance rates for our merchants.
GoTo Financial
Jun 20201 yr 4 mosSep 2021

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Lead a team that helps build ledger and transaction pipeline for all Gopay wallet-related transactions. The eMoney team maintains the ledger, user management and transaction processing for all GoPay eMoney transactions. The eMoney team aims to achieve higher payment acceptance rate for eMoney transactions.
GoTo Financial
Jan 20191 yr 5 mosMay 2020

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Lead a team that worked on the following: Building pricing abstraction in Transport to serve 2W and 4W taxi products for Gojek. Extracted it as a microservice. Helped build Payments and Growth related features for Transport products
Thoughtworks
Aug 20163 mosOct 2016

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Thoughtworks
Sep 20142 yrsAug 2016

Bangalore

CognitiveClouds
Mar 20146 mosAug 2014

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

CognitiveClouds
Sep 20136 mosFeb 2014

Bangalore

Working as a Backend Application Developer, Developing API's and Libraries for Mobile and Web Applications. Also Developing Web Services in Ruby with Frameworks such as Sinatra or Ruby on Rails.
GitHub
@rshetty
Medium
@rbharshetty

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Education

RV College of Engineering

B.E, Information Science

RV College of Engineering

20084 yrs2012

Pre University Board, Physics, Chemistry, Biology and Mathematics

Shree Guru PU Science College

20062 yrs2008

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Headline

AI-native Engineering at Rippling

About

Rajeev currently works as a Senior Engineering Leader at Rippling, where he spearheads the AI Governance engineering charter. He builds enterprise B2B products that provide organizations with comprehensive visibility, security, and control over their AI usage. Rajeev brings in many years of experience leading numerous winning engineering teams. As a hands-on architect, Rajeev loves to solve complex distributed system problems, actively driving system design and agentic coding for Model Context Protocol (MCP) systems and LLM/AI Gateways. Rajeev writes code at Github: https://github.com/rShetty Rajeev gives conference talks and the slides for the talks can be found here: http://slides.com/rajeevbharshetty I write about technology and engineering management at my website: https://rajeev.me

Location

Bengaluru

AI stack

claude code

claude

codex

cursor

deepseek

hermes agent

Work experience

Senior Engineering Manager at Rippling, Feb 2026 - Present · 7 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, At Rippling, I lead the AI Governance engineering charter, building enterprise-grade tools that empower our customers to safely, securely, and efficiently integrate AI into their daily operations. My core focus is driving tangible customer ROI—helping businesses significantly reduce costs and streamline workflows by unlocking the power of LLMs and agentic capabilities. I thrive on rapid, strategic execution; recently, my team architected and delivered the MCP Gateway from concept to Beta in just six weeks, and we are currently finalizing the architectural vision for our AI Gateway's Alpha launch this July. By bridging the gap between complex distributed systems and clear business value, I focus on fostering high-performing engineering cultures that build the next generation of scalable AI infrastructure.

Senior Leader at CRED, Jun 2023 - Feb 2026 · 2 yrs 9 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, making consumer payment experience at CRED fast, stable, and reliable. working on everything UPI at CRED.

Senior Engineering Manager - Payments Experience at GoTo Financial, Sep 2021 - Jun 2023 · 1 yr 10 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, Payment experience team aims to make payments fast, reliable and safe. Payment experience team works on integrating with Merchant partners across on-demand services, offline and online modes to enable these merchant partners to accept payments from their customers. Payment experience team also works in making sure to add a lot of payment methods through strategic integrations with payment providers to enable customers to have the flexibility in choosing the payment method when making payments. Payment experience team works as a bridge between our Merchant partners and Payment providers and aims to achieve higher payment acceptance rates for our merchants.

Engineering Manager - Gopay Emoney at GoTo Financial, Jun 2020 - Sep 2021 · 1 yr 4 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, Lead a team that helps build ledger and transaction pipeline for all Gopay wallet-related transactions. The eMoney team maintains the ledger, user management and transaction processing for all GoPay eMoney transactions. The eMoney team aims to achieve higher payment acceptance rate for eMoney transactions.

Technical Lead - Pricing, Payments and Growth for Transport at GoTo Financial, Jan 2019 - May 2020 · 1 yr 5 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, Lead a team that worked on the following: Building pricing abstraction in Transport to serve 2W and 4W taxi products for Gojek. Extracted it as a microservice. Helped build Payments and Growth related features for Transport products

Senior Consultant at Thoughtworks, Aug 2016 - Oct 2016 · 3 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Application Developer at Thoughtworks, Sep 2014 - Aug 2016 · 2 yrs, Bangalore

Senior Software Engineer at CognitiveClouds, Mar 2014 - Aug 2014 · 6 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Software Engineer at CognitiveClouds, Sep 2013 - Feb 2014 · 6 mos, Bangalore, Working as a Backend Application Developer, Developing API's and Libraries for Mobile and Web Applications. Also Developing Web Services in Ruby with Frameworks such as Sinatra or Ruby on Rails.

Education

B.E, Information Science, RV College of Engineering

Pre University Board, Physics, Chemistry, Biology and Mathematics, Shree Guru PU Science College

Public links

github: https://github.com/rshetty

medium: https://medium.com/@rbharshetty