Summary
Vishnu Iyengar is a software engineer with 16 years of experience building high-impact product infrastructure and 0-to-1 features at scale, currently driving Avatar Marketplace, New Pages, and lead generation efforts at Meta. He brings a polyglot background across .NET, Rails, C#, Ruby, JavaScript and C/C++, with a strong focus on performance tracing and resilience to signal loss for advertiser products. His career spans startups and consultative engineering at Directi and ThoughtWorks, blending hands-on coding with technical leadership and customer-facing problem solving. Vishnu pairs a computer science foundation from IIT Madras with a master’s in aerospace engineering, reflecting analytical rigor and systems thinking. Known for pragmatic multi-tasking and strong communication, he excels at transitioning legacy systems to modern infrastructure. An engineer comfortable across front-end, back-end and infrastructure, he repeatedly ships products that improve revenue-facing metrics for high-spend customers.
16 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Indian Institute of Technology Madras
Master's degree Aerospace Engineering, Master's degree Aerospace Engineering at University of Maryland