about

~ the person behind the moss ~

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I work on infrastructure and developer productivity at Shopify, mostly around CI reliability, flaky tests, and internal tooling. Outside work, I'm into mechanical systems, electronics, philosophy, and techno music. I also build small software projects, take things apart, and maintain this strange corner of the internet.

name: vishnu
day work: developer productivity
focus: CI + infrastructure
where: Shopify
training: mechanical engineering
github: vishnuarun02

system information

> operator.sys --info

role: infrastructure / developer productivity @ Shopify
languages: python, typescript, ruby
systems: CI pipelines, build systems, internal tooling
prior art: manufacturing, rocket motors, computer vision
hardware: opens things not meant to be opened
known issue: starts more than finishes

interests

[ machines ] roll forming · rocket motors · hardware teardowns
[ software ] ci infrastructure · build systems · audio players
[ data ] data science · observability · computer vision
[ offline ] reading · cooking · music · field guides

small timeline

thenstudied mechanical engineering and learned to think in systems, tolerances, and failure modes.
thenworked in roll forming and on rocket motors, where small mistakes become very physical.
nextmoved into data science and computer vision. python became another shop tool.
nowbuilds CI infrastructure and developer tooling at Shopify.
2026built this site instead of sleeping.

currently into

current obsession: note-taking systems

Is This Anything? - Jerry Seinfeld (current read)
the Undertale soundtrack (on the radio, again)
odd internet artifacts found at 1am

elsewhere

learnings : what building this place taught me
realm radio : what is playing on the desk
sitemap : every door