hi, I’m Bharath.
I’m a product manager at Auth0, where I work on agents that act on your behalf: their permissions, their credentials, and what happens when they get it wrong. I spent six years as an engineer first, so I still build the things I write about.
Around here I write essays, keep receipts on the work, and photograph cities. Start anywhere.
a few things I’ve made
Pick one and I’ll tell you about it.
with a team
solo-built
written
Agent 404
Broken-link recovery that works for agents, not just browsers.
things I’ve built
Everything I’ve shipped.
With a team, solo, and in writing.
Shipped with a team
Work I led at Auth0, Appsmith, and Hiver.
Solo-built, slightly feral
Weekend tools I shipped to find out if an idea held up.
Written
The essays and frameworks behind some of the work above.
what I keep thinking about
Ideas I keep coming back to.
Each thread links a claim to the thing I built to test it.
Agent experience
What an agent is allowed to do shapes everything else about the product.
Credentials, permissions, and the ways agents fail.
Open the threadProduct judgment
Most insights are trivia. The useful ones change what you do on Monday.
Evidence, tradeoffs, and deciding without enough information.
Open the threadPlatforms and developers
You can predict what a platform will neglect from how it earns.
Developer momentum, ecosystems, and where the gaps stay open.
Open the threadwriting
Recent posts
off the clock
Photos
I take a camera most places. Cities, machines, light, and the occasional very good plate of food.
by email
Want an email when I post?
One email per post. Nothing else.
I’ll email you when I post. No schedule, no roundups.
the CV bit
Where I’ve worked.
Engineering from 2015 to 2021, product since.