About

Vishnu Prakash Bachu is a Senior Software Engineer at Zeni.ai with a passion for problem solving and original thinking. With around 3 years of experience in product development, he has worked on 6 different products in domains such as e-commerce, mining, hyperlocal, and CX apps. Vishnu is a platform-agnostic developer who believes in learning over knowing and approaches problems from an interdisciplinary perspective. He has built a color-based recommendation engine using color theory and automated drill hole placement in mining job sites using 3D geometry and physics. Vishnu has a Bachelor's degree in Electronics and Communications Engineering from Madanapalle Institute of Technology & Science and a Master's degree in Computer Science from the Indian Institute of Technology, Hyderabad. He is a versatile software engineer with expertise in AI, Ruby, Python, Flask, Microservices, AWS, ML, Elastic Search, Computer Vision, Redis, Javascript, MySQL, MongoDB, Cassandra, Postgres, and Web infrastructures. In his previous role as an SDE 2 at Bewakoof, Vishnu designed, architected, and built a microservice in Flask from scratch for ratings and reviews which resulted in an add-to-cart rate increase by 4.7% and contributed to an annualized sales uplift of 13 crores. He also optimized checkout APIs and reduced the response time by 75-90%, leading to a substantial increase in conversion rate. Vishnu was awarded Employee of the month, Captain Marvel of the month, Dark Knight of the day, and Squad of the month in three consecutive months. As a Software Engineering Consultant at Enroco, Vishnu built a color-based recommendation engine and its integration with a web app, which increased user perceived value of the product by 30%. He also developed a production-ready hyperlocal app for rural India in less than 2 weeks and provided a solution for a computer vision problem using geometry to detect features from 3D models. Vishnu is not only a competent software engineer but also a strategic thinker who has been involved in business development, product, and strategy. Vishnu is a first-principles thinker who enjoys providing original ideas to solve business problems. He is not afraid to take risks and try something new. Vishnu combines his software engineering techniques with domain knowledge to create magic and add value to products and businesses.