Vignesh Palaniappan
Product Manager at Datadog
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolVignesh Palaniappan is a product leader with 11 years of experience blending software engineering roots and startup-building instincts to deliver data-driven products in healthcare and observability. Currently a Product Manager at Datadog, he previously led product and technical initiatives at PathAI and Verily and co-founded Pesto Health and HackDavis, demonstrating an ability to move between hands-on engineering and strategic product work. His early career as a software engineer at Amazon, Zillow, Jet.com and other startups gives him practical fluency in shipping scalable systems and collaborating with engineering teams. Comfortable advising startups and founding initiatives, he pairs technical depth from a Computer Science degree at UC Davis with entrepreneurial grit and a bias toward measurable impact. An interesting through-line: he repeatedly operates at the intersection of data/ML-driven healthcare and developer-focused tooling, translating complex technical constraints into user-centered product outcomes.
10 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science and Minor in Technology Management, Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science and Minor in Technology Management at University of California, DavisHigh School Diploma, High School Diploma at Monta Vista High School
Tamil, English, Spanish
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Github Skills (3)
hugo10
datadog10
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Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
vignesh/vignesh.github.io
Jan 2016 - Sep 2024
Contributions:92 pushes, 1 branch in 8 years 9 months
vignesh/InterviewPractice
Sep 2016 - Apr 2018
Contributions:114 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 7 months
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