Summary
Vignesh Raja is a Senior Software Engineer in the San Francisco Bay Area with 11 years of experience building large-scale distributed systems, realtime data pipelines, and safety-focused backend services. Currently on Redditβs Anti-Evil team, he combines deep engineering chops with research-minded problem solving to improve platform safety and trust. Previously at Optimizely he helped launch Full Stack products, engineered a realtime analytics stack processing billions of events daily, and drove observability and GDPR compliance initiatives. Comfortable across Java, Python, and cloud-hosted data infrastructure, he has a strong foundation in machine learning and NLP interests that inform pragmatic system design. He seeks early- to mid-stage companies with hard technical challenges and a strong product/market fit, bringing both hands-on execution and an analytical, math-oriented approach.
11 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Gretchen Whitney High School
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign