Engineer → PM → Builder of Things That Matter 🚀
Hey there! 👋 I’m Vishal Sharma — a builder at heart who loves creating things that make a positive dent in the world.
The TL;DR on Me
For the past 4+ years, I’ve been on an adventure at SigNoz (YC W21), helping grow it from zero to an open-source observability platform trusted by thousands of teams. I started as the first backend engineer, built core systems handling billions of traces, and eventually shape-shifted into Product Manager. Yeah, I’m that guy who can debug your database and debate your roadmap. 😄
What’s this place? 🏡
This is my digital garden — a cozy corner of the internet where I share what I’m learning, building, and thinking about.
- Blog — Deep dives on observability, open source, product building, and lessons from the trenches
- Life — Travels, reflections, and the beautiful chaos of everyday life.
- Notes — Learnings, unpolished thoughts, and explorations — my playground of ideas
Some highlights from the journey 🚀
- 40x improvement in trace database(clickhouse) performance (yes, forty times!)
- Led 300+ user calls - demos, feedback sessions, and a lot of debugging “why isn’t my data showing up?”
- Insights from user calls and some magic helped boost user activation by 40% and average revenue per account by 45%
- Built and launched the SigNoz SaaS platform
- Published 100+ technical blogs/docs with sample code on OpenTelemetry to help developers get started
Before SigNoz, I was at OkCredit building high-throughput systems (500k+ rpm, no pressure 🙃), won 2 hackathons, and earned the “Best Newbie” 🏆 award. I was also into ML/AI before it was cool — built drone software at IIT Madras, trained deep learning models, and created a COVID-19 predictor with 98% accuracy during the pandemic.
Things that spark joy ✨
- Building — there’s nothing like the thrill of shipping something new that actually helps people
- Open Source — I genuinely believe in building in public and the magic of community-driven software
- Non-fiction books — I’m a certified non-fiction nerd 📚! Check out what I’m reading on Goodreads
- Problem-solving — 1,000+ algorithmic problems solved, ICPC Regionals veteran, Top 100 out of 180,000+ in HackWithInfy (that’s top 0.05%!)
- Minimalism — keeping life and code simple
Let’s connect! 🤝
- 🐙 GitHub: @makeavish
- 🐦 Twitter: @makeavish11
- 💼 LinkedIn: makeavish
- 📚 Goodreads: makeavish