Vaisagh Viswanathan
CEO & Co-founder at impress.ai
Singapore
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Top SchoolVaisagh Viswanathan is a CEO and co-founder with 14 years of experience blending AI research, product engineering and entrepreneurship to build enterprise-grade recruitment automation at impress.ai. With a PhD in AI agents from NTU and postdoctoral work simulating city-scale electrification and crowd dynamics, he pairs rigorous research instincts with hands-on technical leadership across roles from CTO to Deputy CEO. He has grown impress.ai from a regional market leader in Southeast Asia to a global platform that automates screening, interviewing and bias-mitigated shortlisting for enterprises. Passionate about using AI to make hiring fairer and more efficient, he also runs Ideatory to surface tech talent through open innovation. Outside work he’s a programmer-scientist who still enjoys football and family time, reflecting a rare mix of academic depth, product focus and practical leadership.
14 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Undergraduate exchange Computer Science, Undergraduate exchange Computer Science at University of WaterlooBVBVM, Thrissur, KeralaPhD Computer Science, PhD Computer Science at Nanyang Technological University Singapore
English, Malayalam, Hindi
Github Skills (8)
directions10
package-control9
django-channels8
server-side6
django6
python5
websocket4
asyncio3
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
vaisaghvt/CheckTypos
Apr 2013 - Feb 2014
Contributions:29 commits in 10 months
vaisaghvt/Sublime-Text-Latex-Cheat-Sheet
May 2012 - Apr 2013
Contributions:7 commits in 10 months
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