Vignesh
Lead Software Engineer at GoodRxLos Angeles
Building tools, prompting agents, walking the dog.
I build tools that make engineers' lives easier. There's something about watching an idea turn into working code that still gives me a dopamine hit after all these years.
Born near Chennai, studied electrical engineering, but to be honest, I was always interested in writing software.
These days I'm on the Developer Tools team at GoodRx, where I get to build internal tooling, test automation, mess with infrastructure, and occasionally break things in interesting ways.
I'm the kind of person who can't just have an idea and let it sit there. If something seems like it could work, I need to build it, ship it, see what happens. Then probably rebuild it three more times.
I take my responsibility of creating timely memes and Slack emojis very seriously.
Currently Nov 2026
- Helping scale background agents at GoodRx.
- Learning the ins and outs of distroless container images, and moving production apps onto them.
- Sharpening my design eye with interface.craft.
- Building new features for Lifecycle.
Work
What I've been working on
- tribb.app: a small thing I've been tinkering on.
- Working out an AI and MCP gateway for agentic workloads.
- Lifecycle: an open-source preview-environment orchestrator.
- Scaling preview-environment infrastructure as load grows, learning the failure modes by hitting them.
- An alert router that pairs GitHub commits and CODEOWNERS to Slack channels, so the right people get pinged instead of everyone.
- OpenDevTools: a small collection of open-source developer utilities. No tracking, no upsell, free.
- Took second place at a recent GoodRx hackathon for an agent that automates infra-migration work.
Always happy to chat about developer tools or interesting problems. Say hi.
Writing
Notes from the side
- Humans + agentsWhat our engineering team is learning from working with AI agents, as the slides from a short talk.
- Stay long enough to be wrongContext becomes judgment, relationships become trust, and trust becomes agency. The value of staying somewhere worth building.
- Preview environments for agentic development Agents made code cheap to write, but verification is still laborious. Teaching agents to work with preview environments.
Beyond code
When I'm not at the keyboard
- Doing CrossFit, badly but trying to be consistent.
- Walking LA on foot, looking for the parts that still feel like a neighborhood.
- Console gaming. Catching up on Astro Bot and accepting recommendations.
- Reporting to Chocolata, my 65lb Doberman mix who runs the house.
- Sharpening my cooking skills.
