Bhat is an alumnus of the University of Pennsylvania, where he obtained both bachelor's and master's degrees in computer science/mathematics, in a total of 4 years.
[6] Bhat held the role of Patrick, co-starring alongside Hal Scardino and Litefoot in the 1995 film The Indian in the Cupboard,[3][7] for which he received a Young Artist Award nomination.
[8] Between the fall of 1999 and spring of 2000, Bhat sold two internet startups, SiegeSoft.com and myEDesk.com,[9] to a Canadian software firm.
[10] When a summer pre-calculus class he wished to take was canceled, he instead spent the time writing SiegeSoft as an anonymity software program to allow users to surf the internet without leaving a trail.
[11] Originally sold online, SiegeSoft hides subscribers' identities when they use the internet and scrambles records of sites visited.