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Jishnu Vasanth

@jishnuvasanth

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Pragmatic engineering leader specializing in scalable web, AI-integrated SaaS and performance optimization.

India

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What I'm looking for

I seek leadership roles where I can own platform architecture and delivery, mentor engineers, drive AI adoption, and improve reliability and performance at scale.

I am a pragmatic software engineer and engineering leader with 10+ years building scalable web, VR, and AI-integrated systems. I focus on performance optimization, pixel-perfect delivery, and production reliability across distributed architectures.

As Head of Engineering and founding member at my current company, I led a 15+ cross-functional team, owned architecture and deployments, and built a multi-tenant AI SaaS designed to scale to ~5M API requests/day while cutting cloud costs by ~50%.

My background includes hands-on work across backend (Python), frontend (Next.js), mobile (React Native), desktop (Electron), and Unity/C#. I have driven CI/CD, observability, TDD adoption, search and caching improvements, and performance/load testing to materially reduce defects and improve stability and developer productivity.

I combine technical leadership, hiring and performance management, and applied generative AI experience (LLMs, RAG, agentic workflows) to deliver reliable, high-performance platforms and mentor teams toward measurable outcomes.

Experience

Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

Current

Head of Engineering

Current

BuildNext

Nov 2023 - Present (2 years 7 months)

Led a 15+ member cross-functional engineering team and architected a multi-tenant AI-integrated SaaS platform engineered to scale to ~5M API requests/day, cutting cloud workload costs by ~50% and reducing production defects by ~60%.

Python Next.js React Native AWS GCP CI CD Observability TDD

Technical Lead

BuildNext

Oct 2021 - Nov 2023 (2 years 1 month)

Guided engineering teams to deliver complex features end-to-end, improved search and logging with the ELK stack, optimized performance with Redis and Varnish, and improved production stability by 30%.

Redis Varnish Gatling Locust REST APIs CI CD Performance Testing

Software Development Engineer

BuildNext

Jun 2016 - Oct 2021 (5 years 4 months)

Designed a headless e-commerce platform supporting ~1M daily active users and built a real-time messaging platform using Node.js, Kafka, and WebSockets while integrating RBAC and OAuth2.0 for secure communication.

Node Kafka WebSockets Magento Vue.Js MySQL OAuth 2.0 Unity

Web Developer Intern

InnoIntel LLC

Jul 2015 - Oct 2015 (3 months)

Developed a predictive analytics system using Node.js and Express, visualized graph data with Neo4j and D3.js to support data-driven insights.

Node Neo4j D3.Js Mustache JavaScript

Web Designer Intern

Xenonous

Jan 2015 - Feb 2015 (1 month)

Implemented front-end designs using Bootstrap to create responsive user interfaces.

HTML5 CSS3 Bootstrap JavaScript

Education

Degrees, certifications, and relevant coursework

College of Engineering, Trivandrum

Bachelor of Technology, Computer Science

2012 - 2016

Completed a Bachelor of Technology in Computer Science with coursework and projects focused on software engineering, distributed systems, and web/VR applications.