Visnu Pitiyanuvath is a seasoned engineer with 12 years of experience building full-stack web applications, currently crafting data-driven developer tools at Observable from his base in San Francisco. He has a strong JavaScript stack focus—React and Node.js—complemented by Ruby on Rails experience and a foundation in EE/CS from Duke. His career spans product-stage startups and scaleups, including engineering and management roles at Opendoor and core engineering at Square, showing comfort shifting between IC and leadership responsibilities. Early work building resume-matching engines and a Java machine-learning parser demonstrate a long-standing interest in applied ML and search. Colleagues describe him as pragmatic and durable: he moves projects from prototype to production while keeping developer experience and data clarity front and center.
12 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Electrical Engineering, Computer Science at Duke University
Contributions:125 commits, 45 PRs, 116 pushes in 1 year 11 months
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