About

I'm Vishnu Jayadevan, a software engineer based in Bangalore, India. I work at DeepSource, where I work on the latest generation of code quality and security tools. This site is my little corner of the internet, where I share thoughts on distributed systems, software architecture, and leadership in tech. From time to time, I also write about other interests—like biochemistry, aquascaping, and travel. You might even come across the occasional post in Malayalam, for folks back home.

Career

DeepSource

(2020-Present)

Staff Engineer

Returned to a Staff Engineer role to help shape the next generation of products at DeepSource. I currently wear multiple hats—driving development across our Software Composition Analysis (SCA) and AI initiatives, while also tackling core performance and scalability challenges within the platform.


Engineering Manager

Built and led the product, platform and security engineering teams at DeepSource. I was primarily involved in building up a rockstar team of engineers, while contributing to the overall technical strategy and architecture.


Technical Lead

Led the development of DeepSource's core product and platform through its formative zero-to-one phase. This included a full rewrite of the frontend UI to improve usability and performance, building foundational features like reporting, a public API, and the DeepSource CLI, and setting up support for on-premise deployments to serve enterprise customers.


Exotel

(2015-2019)

Senior Software Engineer

This was my first job after college. At 21, I joined a small team of engineers and had the privilege of working with some of the best minds in the industry. I wore many hats, ranging from building internal tools to developing a new telephony platform for the enterprise market that powered billions of phone conversations. This work resulted in my first granted patent for innovations in telephony infrastructure.