Founder Profile
T.R. Vishwanath
Last reviewed: September 2026 · By Swet Parvadiya
Background
T.R. Vishwanath holds an incredibly deep, intensely operational background in advanced software engineering and complex enterprise architecture. Having aggressively scaled engineering operations at both Microsoft and Meta, this elite background in managing massive, highly secure data pipelines provided the precise technical mastery required to build Glean's unified enterprise search graph.
Founding Story
T.R. Vishwanath is a brilliant technology executive and the co-founder and Chief Technology Officer (CTO) of the massive enterprise AI search company, Glean. An incredibly skilled software engineer, Vishwanath spent years honing his technical mastery at massive tech conglomerates like Microsoft and Meta (Facebook). Recognizing the massive inefficiency caused by data silos within large organizations, he joined forces with Arvind Jain in 2019 to completely solve the enterprise search problem. As CTO, Vishwanath is absolutely instrumental in engineering Glean's highly complex backend infrastructure, ensuring the AI-powered search engine securely and instantly indexes millions of documents across dozens of fragmented corporate SaaS applications without compromising internal data permissions.