Hiren Hiranandani

Software Engineer

github.com/bigH · linkedin.com/in/hiren-hiranandani-3382b95

Senior software engineer with 18 years of experience leading architecture and implementation across distributed systems, platform engineering, and developer infrastructure. My background spans foundational systems like messaging, schema infrastructure, rate limiting, and scalability, and more recently, AI platform work that helps teams adopt modern engineering practices and ship AI-powered products with confidence.

I’m at my best where strong engineering fundamentals meet emerging technology: turning ambiguity into practical systems, raising the technical bar, and building secure, scalable foundations for teams moving into AI. At Chime, that included internal AI frameworks, platform support for safe AI development, and infrastructure that helped teams build and deliver AI products more effectively.

Skills

AI Platforms & Enablement · Distributed Systems · Framework & Tool Design · Large-Scale Code Evolution · Tighten Developer Loops · Build for High Leverage · Simplify Messy Problems · Security-Conscious Design · Mentoring & Culture

Experience

Chime—Software Engineer/AI Enablement
Feb 2024 – Present
  • Built schema infrastructure, messaging, rate limiting, and throttling systems powering Chime's core platform at scale
  • Improved schema performance and correctness company-wide, reducing build times by 70% and failures by 90%
  • Launched AI engineering capabilities on Chime's tiger team, building internal frameworks adopted by all teams shipping AI products
  • Shipped a secure MCP platform that automated integration patterns with built-in safeguards against access control flaws and data leaks
Spotnana—Software Engineer/Platform
Nov 2022 – Jun 2023
  • Replaced polling with webhooks infrastructure, cutting notification latency from minutes to seconds for partner integrations
  • Built a deduplication framework to reconcile messy third-party data into clean canonical records
  • Built an image pipeline to ingest third-party assets and serve them efficiently at high quality
  • Led International SOS duty-of-care integration, a key requirement for enterprise travel partners
Airtable—Software Engineer/Developer Effectiveness
Oct 2021 – Nov 2022
  • Overhauled the local developer experience: revamped laptop setup, staged M1 rollout, and improved lint and auto-correct tooling
  • Built a smart local runner that rebuilt only what's needed, tightening the developers' inner loop by 90%
  • Shipped a flaky test management system, giving engineers visibility and control over flakiness across the full suite
Retool—Software Engineer/Product / Infrastructure
Dec 2019 – May 2021
  • Shipped virtualized navigation rendering, enabling efficient handling of large workspaces
  • Migrated Production Docker builds off a pet EC2 instance onto CI, improving build observability and reliability
  • Upgraded EOL infrastructure components, driving a major overhaul of the infrastructure codebase
Stripe—Software Engineer/Developer Productivity
Sep 2018 – Dec 2019
  • Improved the Ruby developer experience across the full dev-loop: devboxes, tooling, builds, and local development
  • Executed large-scale code migrations across a 4M LOC codebase using codemods, RuboCop rules, and ratchets
  • Built a code-generation framework that automated boilerplate with guard-rails enforcing consistency across regeneration cycles
Capital One—Senior Manager / Senior Architect
Dec 2015 – Sep 2018
  • Built a typed SQL-like query language with parser and execution engine (Scala, Kafka Streams), enabling analysts to self-serve marketing offer creation, then grew a team around it
  • Shipped a cross-LOB static site framework with shared component library and unified design system
Angie's List—Tech Lead / Senior Principal Scala Architect
Aug 2013 – Oct 2015
  • Built an HTTP composability and security framework that decoupled service architecture from implementation details
  • Standardized code review, interviewing, and training practices to maintain engineering quality through rapid headcount growth
  • Built and maintained an engineering knowledge base that became the backbone of automated onboarding
  • Drove adoption of automated testing and a culture of correctness across engineering