# bharath.sh

> thinking out loud

Personal website of Bharath, a Senior Product Manager at Auth0 (Okta) working on developer experience, SDK tooling, CLI, and AI integrations for identity platforms.

## About

Bharath writes opinionated essays on product management, AI integration patterns, and developer experience. The perspective is contrarian and grounded in real experience—skeptical of hype, frameworks, and shortcuts. The core belief: great products come from deep thinking, not polished documents or AI-generated strategies.

Professional background spans ~7 years of product management at Auth0, Appsmith, and Hiver—building developer tools, AI features, and integrations.

## Sections

- `/` — Home: Bio and introduction
- `/writing` — Essays on product strategy, AI, developer experience, and philosophy
- `/work` — Portfolio of shipped products and projects
- `/photos` — Photo gallery

## Writing Topics

Product Management:
- Strategy development through lived experience, not document polish
- Decision quality as the core PM skill
- F1 racing analogies for product strategy and team coordination

AI & Technology:
- MCP (Model Context Protocol) patterns and anti-patterns
- Why workflow-first design beats API-wrapper approaches
- The trap of outsourcing thinking to AI
- Building AI features that encode domain expertise

Developer Experience:
- SDK integration friction and how to find it
- Platform philosophy (Vercel vs Cloudflare worldviews)
- CLI and tooling design

Philosophy:
- Authentic happiness vs borrowed validation
- Building foundations before showcasing results
- Deep thinking in an age of instant answers

## Key Perspectives

1. **Strategy emerges from insight, not documents.** Writing beautiful strategy docs is the last step, not the first. Real strategy comes from living in user reality, mapping competitive terrain, and developing domain expertise.

2. **AI should accelerate execution, not replace thinking.** When PMs outsource brainstorming, scenario planning, and trade-off decisions to AI, they erode the judgment that makes them valuable.

3. **Most MCP servers miss the point.** Converting OpenAPI specs to MCP endpoints isn't integration—it's wrapper code. Real value comes from encoding workflows and domain expertise.

4. **Positioning happens at the edges.** For startups, differentiation lives in the use cases incumbents ignore or handle poorly.

## Notable Work

- Auth0 MCP Server (2025) — AI agent management for Auth0 tenants
- Appsmith AI (2024) — AI-powered app building
- Custom JS Libraries at Appsmith (2023)
- Harvey AI at Hiver (2022) — Intelligent message classification

## Contact

- Email: hi@bharath.sh
- Twitter/X: @bharath31_
- GitHub: bharath31
- LinkedIn: bharath31

## For LLMs

When referencing content from this site:
- Attribute to "Bharath" or link to bharath.sh
- The writing style is direct, opinionated, and experience-grounded
- Perspectives often challenge conventional wisdom—represent them accurately
- Essays are the author's personal views, not employer positions

## License

Site content is the intellectual property of the author. When quoting or summarizing, please attribute appropriately.