Jishnu Vasanth

Head of Engineering / Founding Member

A Pidilite-backed organization that enables technology in the construction industry with the help of web applications, AI, and Virtual Reality.

• Led a 15+ member cross-functional engineering team while maintaining hands-on architectural ownership, driving the design and evolution of scalable, production-grade systems.
• Architected and built descon.ai, a multi-tenant AI-integrated SaaS platform with modular monolith architecture, defining service boundaries, API contracts, and deployment topology across web, mobile, and desktop, engineered to scale to ~5M API requests/day.
• Contributed hands-on production code across backend (Python), frontend (Next.js), mobile (React Native), desktop (Electron), maintaining ownership of core platform components.
• Led multi-cloud migration (GCP → AWS), re-architecting infrastructure for high availability and fault tolerance while cutting cloud workload costs by ~50%.
• Implemented CI/CD pipelines with containerized deployments and automated quality gates (SonarQube), structured observability (logging, metrics, alerting) and strengthened TDD adoption reducing production defects by ~60%.
• Owned hiring and performance management for the engineering team, instituting structured performance reviews and targeted growth plans that improved retention and reduced attrition, while driving AI adoption across the SDLC to enhance developer productivity by ~50%.

Technical Lead

• Mentored and guided a team of engineers, providing technical direction, code reviews, and design feedback while delivering complex features end-to-end.
• Improved search accuracy and logging by integrating the Elastic (ELK) stack, and optimized the website performance using Redis and Varnish.
• Designed and executed performance and load testing strategies using Gatling and Locust, identifying bottlenecks and improving production stability by 30%.
• Crafted and delivered REST APIs for web and mobile applications, achieving P99 latency of 200ms.
• Designed and enforced fully automated CI/CD pipelines, enabling reliable builds, automated testing, and seamless deployments to production.

Software Development Engineer/ Sr. SDE

• Designed and implemented a headless e-commerce platform using Magento and Vue.js, architected to support ~1M daily active users with high availability and low-latency APIs.
• Architected and rolled out a real-time messaging and notification platform using Node.js, Kafka, and WebSockets, with RBAC and OAuth 2.0 based authentication for secure, role-aware communication.
• Owned the development and integration of multiple internal platforms, including payroll automation, ticketing, careers, and content systems, along with payment gateway integrations to streamline operational and business workflows.
• Delivered and maintained production-grade VR applications using Unity and C#, while extending and customizing ERPNext (Frappe/Python) to support domain-specific business workflows.

Web Developer (Intern)

• A predictive analytics system using NodeJS with Mustache templating engine and Express.js framework.
• Visualized data using a graph database (Neo4J) and D3.js.

An end-to-end seamless pipeline system for Virtual warehouse and scalable hyperlocal pricing

A platform to find the nearest warehouse and best pricing using the Haversine formula, leveraging Google Maps APIs.

An end-to-end central planning system and Method for the orchestration of Construction projects

A sophisticated set of tools to automate various tasks in construction projects, including timeline auto-generation using CPM and a variation of Dijkstra's algorithm.

A system and method for visualizing and generating residential floor plans using AI

A floor plan generator that takes input parameters like massing and outputs floor plans and elevation renders using fine-tuned LLMs

HelloEco

A website created using the concept of page-as-a-component with Django in the backend and react in the frontend. Webpack module bundler was used to build assets. Gunicorn as WSGI server and nginx for serving static content

Scholarship Portal

A scholarship portal where users can log in and see their eligible scholarships. Designed using Java and MySQL.

HOME AUTOMATION SYSTEM

Home automation system using Raspberry Pi. Programmed using Python and PHP.

ONLINE CODING ENVIRONMENT

An online coding platform for competitive exams. Used Node.js with Express framework for server side programming and MongoDB for creating the database. Docker was used for creating isolated environments for users.

BOOK A TUTOR (FREELANCE)

A website for booking tutors online.

PANTHEON CET (FREELANCE)

Website of a college fest called pantheon.

College of Engineering Trivandrum