Vimal Veerapandian
Technical Founder · Software Engineer · Cloud & AI Systems
I build AI-powered products, scalable cloud infrastructure, and modern software systems. Currently building Pennycillin — healthcare infrastructure for pharmaceutical accessibility.
Engineer, builder, founder.
I'm a technical founder and software engineer based in Singapore. I build across the stack — from distributed backends and cloud infrastructure to AI-native product surfaces.
I care about boring, deterministic systems that let teams move quickly, and about product surfaces where the fastest correct answer wins. I've shipped healthcare infrastructure, on-chain data platforms, and developer tooling used by teams across Southeast Asia.
Where I've built.
- 2024 — Present
Technical Founder · Pennycillin
Building infrastructure for pharmaceutical accessibility across Southeast Asia.
- Designed and shipped the platform end-to-end: distributed backend, AI-assisted workflows, and an operator console.
- Owned cloud architecture on GCP with Terraform-managed Cloud Run, Cloud SQL, and Cloud Tasks.
- Built an event-driven data pipeline for pharmacy inventory and reimbursement flows.
GoTypeScriptPostgreSQLGCPTerraformPennycillin - 2023 — 2024
Software Engineer · Allium
Data infrastructure for on-chain analytics at scale.
- Contributed to petabyte-scale ingestion and query surfaces.
- Shipped internal developer tooling for schema evolution and query performance.
GoSQLBigQueryAWSAllium - 2022 — 2023
Software Engineer · Skilio
Skills-verification platform for early-career talent.
- Built React + TypeScript product surfaces and REST APIs for assessments.
- Instrumented analytics and product telemetry.
TypeScriptReactNodePostgreSQLSkilio - 2019 — 2023
Biomedical Engineering, Innovation & Design · National University of Singapore
Biomedical Engineering with a second major in Innovation & Design Programme.
- Focus on medical devices, signal processing, and translational research.
- Founder-track projects across healthtech and developer tooling.
National University of Singapore
Projects
Quiver
A modern AI-native learning management system.
Quiver rethinks the LMS from the primitives up: content, assessments, and cohorts modelled as versioned resources, wrapped by AI tutors and instructor copilots.
AI Medical Scribe
Production multilingual medical documentation platform.
Real-time consultation capture, transcription, and structured note generation for clinicians. Runs across English and multiple Southeast-Asian languages.
Pennycillin
Infrastructure for pharmaceutical accessibility.
A healthcare startup focused on making prescription medication accessible, transparently priced, and reliably delivered.
Languages & tools
The stack I reach for when building products end-to-end.
Writing
- Systems7 min
The quiet return to Go- and Rust-native development
Why the next decade of infrastructure — and increasingly, of product — will be written in Go and Rust, and what that means for how we build.
- Systems9 min
Supply chains are the last great software problem
Logistics is the largest, oldest, and most under-instrumented distributed system on earth. The teams that treat it like software will define the next decade.
- Craft5 min
Building is the fastest way to learn anything
Reading is comfortable. Watching is comfortable. Shipping is the only thing that actually rewires how you think.
Get in touch.
The best way to reach me is by email. I read everything.