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Vishnu Gopal

Engineering at Chronicle

Bengaluru

10+ years of work experience

Chronicle
Sep 20251 yrPresent

Leading a small team of ~10 engineers spread across 3 pods, bundling engineering management & a focus on AI developer experience even while continuing my principal engineer role.
Chronicle
Mar 20257 mosSep 2025

Worked with a complex frontend stack that includes XState (state management), Prosemirror (Editor stack) & Yjs (a CRDT implementation) to add AI-native features and make the product launch-ready. Worked on the onboarding flow for the project, importing from PPT & PDFS and architected a full featured text widget with Prosemirror.
Automattic
Jun 20213 yrs 5 mosOct 2024

Remote

I was part of a small Platforms team working on WooCommerce.com, one of the largest WooCommerce stores in the world, and the primary store that sells Woo extensions and themes. The team contributes both to the feature roadmap of the Woo Marketplace and regular maintenance. Previously, I lead a team that worked on improving the importing and exporting experience of WordPress.com. A lot of our code contributions are open source, and impacts millions of WordPress and WooCommerce users all over the globe.
Doist
May 20201 yr 2 mosJun 2021

Remote

I was part of a small team responsible for the cross-functional frontend stack at Doist, and I’ve worked and deployed several features in Todoist: a personal task management solution, and Twist: a remote-friendly alternative to Slack, and other open source projects at Doist including building a design system.
Safe Security
Jan 20191 yr 5 mosMay 2020

Greater Delhi Area

At Safe, I led the internal Platforms team, working in a horizontal cross-functional team that delivered performance, scalability, reliability and internal developer improvements for the security assessment product SAFE. I also built and delivered an allied product called SAFE Assure in 3 months & got a lot of experience building modern webapps in React, NodeJS and TypeScript.
SV.CO
Jun 20153 yrs 5 mosOct 2018

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

At SV.CO, I lead a small product and technology team building an impactful product that's teaching a lot of students what it means to be a startup founder.
GitHub
@vishnugopal

Vishnu’s AI Stack

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Education

UCL

Postgraduate Diploma, Human-Computer Interaction

UCL

20091 yr2010
University of Kerala

B. Tech., Computer Science

University of Kerala

20024 yrs2006

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Headline

Engineering at Chronicle

About

Platform agnostic (nix, Windows and OSX) experience in developing applications related to the web and mobile media: code in a variety of scripting languages (Ruby, Python, PHP) as well as skills that supplement it: good copywriting, a roving designer's eye, and a strong interest in usability, web standards and the evolving field of human computer interaction. Have led teams and worked in diverse areas such as web design, system administration, and several other kinds of engineering glue. Specialties: Web architect: the LAMP stack and Ruby/Rails. HCI: usability and user experience. System adminstration: *nix systems. Management: Leadership of startup to enterprise-sized teams.

Location

Bengaluru

AI stack

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codex

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openai

claudecode

Work experience

Head of Engineering at Chronicle, Sep 2025 - Present · 1 yr, Leading a small team of ~10 engineers spread across 3 pods, bundling engineering management & a focus on AI developer experience even while continuing my principal engineer role.

Principal Engineer at Chronicle, Mar 2025 - Sep 2025 · 7 mos, Worked with a complex frontend stack that includes XState (state management), Prosemirror (Editor stack) & Yjs (a CRDT implementation) to add AI-native features and make the product launch-ready. Worked on the onboarding flow for the project, importing from PPT & PDFS and architected a full featured text widget with Prosemirror.

Senior Engineering Manager at Automattic, Jun 2021 - Oct 2024 · 3 yrs 5 mos, Remote, I was part of a small Platforms team working on WooCommerce.com, one of the largest WooCommerce stores in the world, and the primary store that sells Woo extensions and themes. The team contributes both to the feature roadmap of the Woo Marketplace and regular maintenance. Previously, I lead a team that worked on improving the importing and exporting experience of WordPress.com. A lot of our code contributions are open source, and impacts millions of WordPress and WooCommerce users all over the globe.

Principal Frontend Engineer at Doist, May 2020 - Jun 2021 · 1 yr 2 mos, Remote, I was part of a small team responsible for the cross-functional frontend stack at Doist, and I’ve worked and deployed several features in Todoist: a personal task management solution, and Twist: a remote-friendly alternative to Slack, and other open source projects at Doist including building a design system.

AVP, Engineering at Safe Security, Jan 2019 - May 2020 · 1 yr 5 mos, Greater Delhi Area, At Safe, I led the internal Platforms team, working in a horizontal cross-functional team that delivered performance, scalability, reliability and internal developer improvements for the security assessment product SAFE. I also built and delivered an allied product called SAFE Assure in 3 months & got a lot of experience building modern webapps in React, NodeJS and TypeScript.

CTO at SV.CO, Jun 2015 - Oct 2018 · 3 yrs 5 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, At SV.CO, I lead a small product and technology team building an impactful product that's teaching a lot of students what it means to be a startup founder.

Education

Postgraduate Diploma, Human-Computer Interaction, UCL

B. Tech., Computer Science, University of Kerala

Public links

github: https://github.com/vishnugopal

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