# Vignesh Sreedhar

> Vignesh Sreedhar is a software engineer at Meta in San Francisco, working on agentic commerce and payments. He is an avid writer and is passionate about tech policy and governance. This is his personal website.

**Background**

- Vignesh moved to San Francisco in early 2025 to join Meta's fintech organization. His work includes agentic commerce infrastructure, industry protocols, and payments systems.
- He studied computer science at Georgia Tech and conducted technology policy research with Dr. Vicki Birchfield, coauthoring papers on AI regulation and transatlantic cooperation.
- He was born in Mumbai, India, and grew up between India and France, including Bangalore and Paris. He attended the American School of Paris, graduating as valedictorian with the IB diploma in 2020.
- He previously interned at Goldman Sachs in New York and Amazon in Madrid.
- He is passionate about tech policy and governance, with the goal of contributing to a world where everyone can use technology safely and reliably.
- He loves languages and aims to learn eight by thirty. His other interests include writing, reading, film, fitness, tennis, and football.

## Website

- [About Vignesh](https://vigneshsreedhar.com/): His biography, current work, background, interests, and contact information.
- [Personal writing](https://vigneshsreedhar.com/writing): Personal essays from Vigorous Thoughts, including reflections on growth, relationships, family, and life.
- [Professional writing](https://vigneshsreedhar.com/writing/professional): Currently a coming-soon page.
- [Research](https://vigneshsreedhar.com/writing/research): Publications on AI governance, technology policy, and transatlantic cooperation.
- [Building](https://vigneshsreedhar.com/building): Linked projects and brief contributions, including Pay with Muse, Meta checkout and direct debit, Goldman Sachs trading tools, Amazon Business experimentation, an ARC-AGI solver, and Punchshot Pickleball.

## Projects and contributions

- [Pay with Muse](https://about.fb.com/news/2026/09/introducing-muse-personal-ai-agent/): Enabling agentic tokens and virtual cards for Muse’s browser-use agents, and commerce protocols for native checkout.
- [AI Checkout on Meta Ads & Meta AI](https://techcrunch.com/2026/03/25/meta-turns-to-ai-to-make-shopping-easier-on-instagram-and-facebook/): Partnering with Stripe, Adyen, PayPal, and 30+ merchants to build and scale direct checkout on Meta surfaces.
- [Faster Checkout with Virtual Cards](https://www.facebook.com/business/news/cannes-2026-discovery-into-purchase): Built virtual card infrastructure with Visa Intelligent Commerce and Mastercard Virtual Card Tokens.
- [Direct Debit for Ads](https://www.facebook.com/business/help/199370786834049?id=160022731342707): Scaled direct debit revenue with Trustly through an industry-first guaranteed direct debit architecture for merchant-initiated payments.
- [Marquee MarketFeed](https://marquee.gs.com/welcome/our-platform/marketfeed): Built an in-house recommendation system for trading floor commentary and Goldman Sachs investment research.
- [Visual Structuring](https://marquee.gs.com/welcome/our-platform/visual-structuring): Scaled an award-winning, patented tool for visual cross-asset derivatives structuring with Rust.
- [Amazon Business](https://business.amazon.com/): Enabled no-code A/B testing for marketers.
- [ARC-AGI Knowledge-Based Solver](https://github.com/vig-star/arc-agi-kbai): Built a symbolic reasoning agent that placed third in Georgia Tech’s graduate Knowledge-Based AI course.
- [Punchshot Pickleball](https://github.com/PunchShotLLC/Punchshot-Pickleball): Built pickleball team and league management software for a client.

## Public profiles

- [GitHub: vig-star](https://github.com/vig-star): Code and projects.
- [X: vigstar1](https://x.com/vigstar1): Personal profile.
- [LinkedIn: Vignesh Sreedhar](https://www.linkedin.com/in/vignesh-sreedhar/): Professional profile.
- [Vigorous Thoughts on Substack](https://vigstar.substack.com/): Personal essays and subscriptions.
- [Google Scholar](https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=PkC7sxcAAAAJ&hl=en): Research publications and citations.

## Research

- [The EU’s potential to lead in “ethical and secure” artificial intelligence: last, best hope?](https://rdcu.be/dg4RA): By Vicki L. Birchfield, Varun Roy, and Vignesh Sreedhar. Journal of Transatlantic Studies; published online July 17, 2023. Examines Europe’s ability to shape global AI governance through its market influence and regulatory approach.
- [The EU’s Capacity to Lead the Transatlantic Alliance in AI Regulation](https://scholarship.claremont.edu/urceu/vol2022/iss1/11/): By Varun Roy and Vignesh Sreedhar. Claremont-UC Undergraduate Research Conference on the European Union, 2022. Compares EU, US, and Chinese approaches to AI regulation and explores transatlantic cooperation through the Trade and Technology Council.