Sasank Vishnubhatla is an associate software engineer in the CERT Division of Carnegie Mellon's Software Engineering Institute. Prior to joining SEI, Vishnubhatla was a software engineer at General Dynamics Mission Systems - Viz Center of Excellence in Pittsburgh. There he quickly moved from software engineering to systems engineering, helping to design various space-ground communication systems while being an active member on an OMS Standard consortium.

Before starting at Viz, he attended Carnegie Mellon's School of Computer Science from 2016 to 2020, working in various research labs including CyLab, where he aided in the doctoral research of Prof. Sruti Bhagavatula (now at Northwestern University) on misinformation and its spread, and the BioRobotics Lab, where he worked under Prof. Howie Choset and aided in building machine learning algorithms to help the Da Vinci robot identify colon cancer.