Vignesh KS
Software engineer and platform lead. I work on backend systems — mostly Java, Kafka, Redis and MySQL — and I've spent the last nine years at Zoho, currently on a multi-tenant Client Portal platform.
Outside of that I self-host things on a second-hand thin client and write the occasional note about what broke.
Work
- May 2017 — Present
- Zoho CorporationMember Technical Staff. Client Portal platform, and before that a community SaaS product.
- Jun 2015 — Apr 2017
- Tata Consultancy ServicesAssistant System Engineer. Underwriting platform for a US health insurance client.
Projects
All projects →- In progress · 2026HealthKaaatiA food and symptom diary you talk to — tell Claude what you ate and how you feel, and it writes the diary over MCP.
- In progress · 2026NadirA first go at similarity search over satellite imagery — click a 1.28 km square of Tirunelveli district and see the ten that look most like it.
- Live · 2026claude-notifyA macOS menu bar indicator showing which Claude Code session is waiting on you.
Writing
All posts →- HealthKaaati: A Food Diary You Talk ToA food diary where I just tell Claude what I ate and how I feel, and it writes everything down. This is v1.
- A Menu Bar Light for Claude CodeRunning several Claude Code sessions means constantly checking which one is stuck. So I built a menu bar indicator that tells me, and learned that the interesting parts were all edge cases.
- The Bug That Left No TraceSome of Claude's summaries of our docs came back empty. The cause turned out to be a stale cache in Anthropic's web_fetch tool.