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, sample apps, 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 and SigNoz MCP, our agent-native observability layer. The goal is simple: help engineers debug production systems using AI agents that can understand traces, logs, metrics, alerts, dashboards, services, deployments, and code.

In plain English: I want to help engineering teams understand what’s happening in production faster, without jumping between five dashboards just to figure out what broke.

• 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 for observability
• MCP and how products can connect better with coding agents
• How to bring production context into the developer workflow
• Making complex systems feel simpler without hiding important details
• PLG, onboarding, and activation for technical products
• Making OpenTelemetry more approachable

When I'm not staring at monitors, I am:

• 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).
• Thinking about product, systems, and why so many dev tools make simple things feel harder than they should

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

Coder at heart. Product by curiosity. Builder throughout.