TL;DR: Founding engineer turned product-builder at SigNoz. These days I’m working on agent-native observability - Noz, MCP, AI agents, and better ways for engineers to understand production systems without jumping between five dashboards just to understand what broke.

I like building useful things that create positive impact. Ideally things that are technically hard, slightly messy, and valuable enough that people would complain if they disappeared.

At SigNoz, I started as the first backend engineer and helped build the 0→1 product: tracing, SigNoz Cloud, performance improvements, docs, user support, and whatever else was politely on fire that week. Somewhere along the way, I moved closer to product because I enjoyed figuring out what to build, why it matters, and how to get it into users' hands just as much as writing the code.

These days, I work across product and engineering on Noz, SigNoz MCP and AI O11y, our agent-native observability layer. The goal is simple: help engineers debug production systems using AI agents that can understand traces, logs, metrics, alerts, deployments, and code.

• Now: building agent-native observability at SigNoz: Noz, MCP, AI agents, observability workflows, and better debugging experiences.
• Before that: Product Manager at SigNoz, working on activation, retention, PLG, product analytics, documentation, and developer experience.
• Before that: first backend engineer at SigNoz; improved Trace DB performance by 40x and trace page load performance by 3x.
• Earlier: worked on backend systems at OkCredit handling 500k+ RPM.

• AI agents and MCP for observability
• Monitoring AI agents
• Making complex systems feel simpler without hiding important details
• PLG, onboarding, and activation for technical products

When I am AFK, you can find me:

• Reading philosophy, psychology, and things that challenge my assumptions
• Meditating, doing yoga, and going for walks to keep the system stable
• Exploring Stoicism and Indian philosophical traditions like Vedanta, Yoga, and Buddhism
• Playing Chess (badly, but enthusiastically).
• Reading and Thinking about systems, product, engineering, etc

• vishal.wtf — my corner of the internet
• LinkedIn — the professional facade
• Twitter - thoughts in 280 chars or less
• Goodreads - my library

Coder at heart. Product by curiosity. Builder throughout.