AI systems · product judgment · engineering

Useful systems,
built with care.

I’m Vishnu Sujeesh. I work on the parts of AI that remain after the novelty wears off: retrieval, evaluation, architecture, infrastructure, and the judgment required to make them useful.

Career

From operations to
AI systems.

My career has moved steadily closer to the decisions inside a system: first improving business operations, then building platforms, then machine-learning products, and now leading enterprise AI.

May 2025 — Present
Johnson & Johnson
Innovative Medicine

AI Solutions Lead

Enterprise AI strategy, architecture, and delivery

  • Introduced context-aware semantic search achieving 100% recall and 0.93 MAR across four languages.
  • Improved HCP retention by 10% through data-driven recommendation systems.
  • Standardized internal tooling for RAG and agentic use cases across eight major projects.
Recommendation systemsRAGAgentic AI
Jun 2023 — Apr 2025
Johnson & Johnson
Innovative Medicine

Senior Software Engineer

Machine learning and full-stack product engineering

  • Spearheaded full-stack development for omnichannel marketing portals using React and Express.
  • Cut release times by , from 30 minutes to seven, by improving infrastructure and CI/CD.
  • Delivered more than $50,000 in annual cloud savings through cost monitoring and architecture optimization.
ReactExpressPython
Jun 2022 — May 2023
Johnson & Johnson
Technology Services

Software Engineer

Full-stack platforms and developer infrastructure

  • Led a four-person team delivering features for a global finance portal transformation.
  • Accelerated master-data updates by 30×, reducing the cycle from 60 minutes to two.
  • Implemented infrastructure-as-code and disaster-recovery playbooks for 30-minute environment spin-up.
JenkinsTerraformTypeScript
Jun 2021 — May 2022
Johnson & Johnson
Consumer Health

Business Analyst

Marketing activation, integration, and analytics

  • Drove product-information-management integration across four markets.
  • Resolved more than 15 critical site-integration incidents within 24 hours.
  • Built Tableau dashboards that reduced support cycle time by 20%.
TableauProduct managementIntegration

The tools changed—from analytics and integration to platforms, machine learning, and AI—but the work has remained the same: understand the real constraint, make the system clearer, and leave it more dependable than I found it.

Selected systems

A record of problems
worth solving.

My work sits between technical depth and practical consequence. The model matters. So do the data, interfaces, incentives, failure modes, and people around it.

01

Semantic search platform

A multilingual retrieval system combining lexical search, embeddings, reranking, evaluation, and production observability.

100% recall · 0.93 MAR
02

Recommendation engine

A behavior-driven system designed around relevance, long-term usefulness, and measurable user outcomes.

10% improvement in retention
03

Agent framework

A reusable foundation for tools, orchestration, memory, guardrails, evaluation, and human review.

Adopted across products
04

Platform optimization

Architectural and workload changes that improved scalability while removing unnecessary cloud spend.

$50k+ annual savings
Education

Engineering as a way
of seeing systems.

Aug 2017 — May 2021
Singapore

Bachelor of Engineering

National University of Singapore

A foundation in engineering, biomedical systems, and analytics shaped how I approach technology today: as an interconnected system of people, constraints, evidence, and consequences.

EngineeringBiomedical systemsAnalytics
Principles

The ideas I return to.

Measure before optimizing.

Without a clear evaluation, most iteration is only motion.

Prefer durable abstractions.

Models and vendors change. Good interfaces, contracts, and feedback loops endure.

Keep consequence visible.

Automation should reduce cognitive load without hiding important decisions.

Complexity must earn its place.

A simpler system that can be understood and operated is often the more intelligent choice.

Business value is technical truth.

An elegant system should eventually improve cost, speed, quality, or human capability.

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Good systems begin with a better understanding of the problem.