TL;DR: I work on product, engineering, and growth at SigNoz: making observability accessible, OpenTelemetry less intimidating, and developer tools a little less allergic to good UX.
I started as the first backend engineer at SigNoz, building core systems and making dashboards less offensively slow. Somewhere along the way, I got pulled into product and growth because I liked figuring out what to build, why it matters, and how to get it into users’ hands just as much as writing the code. These days, I work across engineering, product, and growth, usually somewhere in the messy middle between systems and users.
- Now: working across product and engineering at SigNoz
- Then: first backend engineer at SigNoz; improved Trace DB performance by 40x and page loads by 3x
- Earlier: worked on systems at OkCredit handling 500k+ RPM
- AI agents for observability
- How to make complex systems feel simple
- Making OpenTelemetry more approachable
- PLG for developer tools
When I'm not staring at monitors, I am:
- Reading philosophy, psychology, and things that challenge my assumptions
- Trying to reconcile Vedanta with Stoicism.
- Playing Chess (badly, but enthusiastically).
- Thinking about product, systems, and why so many dev tools make simple things feel harder than they should
- 🌐 vishal.wtf — my corner of the internet
- 💼 LinkedIn — the professional facade
- 🕊️ Twitter - thoughts in 280 chars or less
Coder at heart. Product by curiosity. Builder throughout.