Vishal Sharma

Co-Founder

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India5 yrs 10 mos experience

Most Likely To SwitchAI ML Practitioner

Key Highlights

Led product strategy for a successful open-source tool
Achieved top rankings in competitive programming
Improved user activation and revenue significantly

Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS Product Manager with strong engineering and growth expertise.

Contact

vishal@signoz.io LinkedIn

Skills

Core Skills

Product StrategyUser Experience (ux)Product ManagementSoftware DevelopmentProject ManagementArtificial Intelligence (ai)

Other Skills

A/B TestingAlgorithm DesignAmazon Web Services (AWS)Analytical SkillsBusiness-to-Business (B2B)C++Cloud-Native ApplicationsCode ReviewCommunicationComputer VisionConsumer ProductsConvolutional Neural Networks (CNN)Cross-functional CollaborationsCross-functional Team LeadershipCustomer Acquisition

About

Product Manager and Founding Engineer at SigNoz, an open‐source APM/Observability platform. Led SigNoz from inception to thousands of users - contributing to engineering, product, growth, sales, and support to build a 0–1 product. With a Top‐100 finish (among 180k+, 99.95% Percentile) in HackWithInfy 2020, a national rank of 179 in ACM ICPC ’19, and 1,000+ algorithmic problems solved, I bring a data‐driven, results‐oriented approach to create impactful product.

Experience

5 yrs 10 mos

Total Experience

1 yr 6 mos

Average Tenure

4 yrs 7 mos

Current Experience

Signoz

2 roles

Product Manager

Promoted

Jan 2024 – Present · 2 yrs 5 mos · Remote

Built 0–1 product: Grew an open-source Observability tool from zero to thousands of users.
Drove product strategy: Defined MVP scope, roadmaps, and features with a data-driven approach.
Improved key KPIs: Increased user activation by 40% and average revenue per user (RPU) by 45% through optimized onboarding flows and targeted feature launches.
Established product analytics: Set up end‐to‐end dashboards and business KPIs to track funnel drop‐offs and measure product adoption.
Led cross-functional execution: Coordinated engineering, growth, sales, and support teams end-to-end.
User Research/Support: Led 100+ user interviews to gather feedback, shaping the product roadmap and feature prioritization.
Community Engagement: Launched the Dashboard Contributor program, inviting power users to propose new dashboard templates and best practices.

Funnel OptimizationUser Experience (UX)Revenue & Profit GrowthWireframingProduct DesignTeamwork+36

Founding Software Engineer

Nov 2021 – Jan 2024 · 2 yrs 2 mos · Remote

First backend engineer at SigNoz, covering full-stack engineering, product, growth, and support roles.
Led the tracing module and SaaS platform, focusing on product, engineering, and growth.
Transitioned to product leadership after building core backend capabilities for an open‐source APM/Observability platform (handling billions of traces).
Improved trace DB performance by 40x
Improved trace page load performance by 3x
Built and Maintain first version of SigNoz SaaS
Published technical blogs on instrumentation best practices and built over 20 instrumented sample applications
Stack: Go, Clickhouse, Opentelemetry (CNCF), Mixpanel, Segment

Software as a Service (SaaS)Distributed ApplicationsTechnical DesignTeamworkProduct Life CycleCommunication+38

Okcredit

2 roles

Software Engineer

May 2021 – Nov 2021 · 6 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Built a report service which generated over 200k reports everyday
Optimized report generation system by 2x and decreased error rate from 20% to <0.5%
Maintainer of communication service which included SMS and Whatsapp at over 50k RPM
Won OkHackathon 3.0
Stack: Go, Postgres, K8s Cronjob, Ruby

Distributed ApplicationsTechnical DesignTeamworkCommunicationSystem MonitoringStrategic Thinking+26

Software Engineer

Aug 2020 – May 2021 · 9 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Worked as part of core experience team (AB, Reports, User care)
Improved a microservice latency by 4x and reduced CPU usage by 3x
Developed internal tools for core experience and user success teams
Saved 11,000+ hrs of internal teams by improving efficiency of internal tools
Contributed to a microservice which handles 500k rpm (requests per minute)
Won "Best Newbie" award 2020-21
Won "Ace of Impacts" award in OkHackathon 2.0
Stack: Go, Postgres, Ruby, Retool, Js

TeamworkCommunicationSystem MonitoringMicroservicesTechnical UnderstandingGo (Programming Language)+17

Lyka

Software Engineer

May 2021 – Aug 2021 · 3 mos · Remote

Worked as contract software engineer to integrate mixpanel tracking and fix security bugs.

Distributed ApplicationsTeamworkCommunicationNode.jsMicroservicesData Structures+12

Crio.do

Student Developer, Crio Launch 2020 at Crio.Do

Feb 2020 – Apr 2020 · 2 mos · Remote

Worked on three different Products :-
1.) QBox - QBox is a secure file-sharing service. It is a customized version of the popularly available VSFTPD server.
Skills Learned:
Linux Commands, OS Concepts, Networking Concepts, Network Security
2.) QMoney - QMoney is a visual stock portfolio analyzer. It helps portfolio managers make trade recommendations for their clients.
Skills Learned:
Java, REST API, Jackson, Interfaces, Code Refactoring, Gradle
3.) QCharm - QCharm is an online IDE. Programmers use QCharm to write source code and execute it inside the editor.
Skills Learned:
Applied DS, ArrayList, String manipulation, KMP search, Linked List, Time Complexity

Data StructuresSoftware DevelopmentDebuggingGit

Eplane.ai

Deep Learning Intern

May 2019 – Jul 2019 · 2 mos · Chennai

The ePlane Company creates Drones equipped with AI to solve different problems. It is incubated at NCCRD, IIT Madras.
I built and trained DL/RL models which are used by Drones.

PythonCommunicationArtificial Intelligence (AI)DebuggingGitDrones