Manjunath (Manju) Bhat is a Distinguished Research VP and Gartner Fellow in the software engineering practice based in Sydney. He covers technologies and practices that span software engineering, AI engineering, security engineering and platform engineering. Manju views the impact of Generative AI on software engineering through two perspectives - building intelligent DevSecOps pipelines for zero-friction software delivery and building intelligent applications and the agent development life cycle. He has led foundational work and launched new markets and hype cycles - examples include Eval-driven development, AI evaluations and observability platforms, optimizing costs and reliability using AI Gateways, AI-native software software engineering, future of software engineering 2030, market guide for software supply chain security, Magic Quadrant for DevOps Platforms (2023) and Hype Cycle for Platform Engineering (2024).