Vishnu Ganesan

Lead Software Engineer at Informatica

Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India
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Vishnu Ganesan is a Lead Software Engineer based in Chennai with 11 years building high-throughput, cloud-native systems and search platforms. He has driven production features and performance improvements at Informatica and Microsoft, from ingress/egress optimizations in a cloud MDM product to automated investigation and remediation workflows in Microsoft Defender. At Zoho he scaled a logs search system handling 50TB+ and hundreds of thousands of daily queries, contributing deep Lucene/Elasticsearch expertise and custom query capabilities. An active contributor to open-source—most notably adding batch document operations and tests to the Meilisearch JavaScript client—he blends backend engineering, test automation, and pragmatic performance tuning. Known for tackling complex distributed data problems, he pairs hands-on coding with mentoring and delivery leadership.
code11 years of coding experience
job2 years of employment as a software developer
bookBachelor of Technology - BTech, Bachelor of Technology - BTech at National Institute of Technology Tiruchirappalli
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Github Skills (10)

meilisearch10
javascript10
nodejs10
testing10
clientside9
apidoc9
sdk9
webclient9
api9
unit-testing9

Programming languages (7)

TypeScriptJavaRustJavaScriptGoHTMLPython

Github contributions (5)

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meilisearch/meilisearch-js

Oct 2021 - Oct 2021

JavaScript client for the Meilisearch API
Role in this project:
userBack-end Developer & Test Automation Engineer
Contributions:8 commits, 3 comments in 2 days
Contributions summary:Vishnu primarily contributed to the JavaScript client for the Meilisearch API by implementing batch operations for adding and updating documents. They introduced new methods and refactored existing code within the `indexes.ts` file. Additionally, the user wrote and updated test cases in `tests/documents_tests.ts` to ensure the functionality of the batch operations, including testing with primary keys. Minor changes were also made to the code in `src/lib/indexes.ts` and `tests/documents_tests.ts` based on review comments.
api-clientapijavascript-clientjavascriptsdk
vishnugt/youtube-dl-plugin

Mar 2016 - Feb 2020

A Python script to constantly watch your clipboard content, and download if its a youtube link!
Contributions:18 commits, 4 PRs, 17 pushes in 3 years 11 months
pythonclipboardpython-scriptyoutubeyoutube-dl
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Vishnu Ganesan - Lead Software Engineer at Informatica