Darshan Bhatta

Principal Engineer at Cloaked

At Cloaked I build real-time AI systems that stay reliable at scale.

I've been shipping since high school, when Fortnite Dropper, a Google Assistant action, reached 10M+ users. At UT Austin I interned at Cloudflare and Roblox, co-founded OctoShop, scaled its price engine to 1B+ requests a month, and sold it to Ibotta, where I stayed on as a Staff Engineer.

I've also spoken at React Summit about shipping React in large-scale Chrome extensions.

Experience

Real-time AI systems for consumer privacy, built to stay reliable at scale.

InStok and OctoShop, a shopping extension with price comparison, restock alerts and cashback. Built the price engine to 1B+ requests a month. Acquired by Ibotta.

UT Austin CS · LinkedIn · Dallas Morning News · Daily Texan · FOX 7 · UploadVR · TechXplore · BGR

Search & Discovery: Elasticsearch ingestion validation and monitoring.

Education

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Writing & talks