Andy Hirakawa
Founder, CTO at Mockatoo
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
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Top SchoolAndy Hirakawa is a seasoned software engineer and founder with 15 years of experience building native and backend systems across mobile and web platforms. As Founder and CTO of Mockatoo and a former Apple engineer, he led the development of the first fully native Apple TV app library used to launch Apple TV+, demonstrating product-grade engineering at scale. His language fluency—Java, Scala, PHP, SQL, C, Objective-C, Swift, and Scheme—reflects a rare full-stack and systems-level breadth from low-level C and assembly-era teaching to modern native app ecosystems. Past roles at Zoosk and Grinnell College show a pattern of shipping pragmatic infrastructure (APIs, inference engines, timesheet systems) and mentoring others through teaching and tutoring. Based in Vancouver, he combines entrepreneurial drive with a love for beautiful software that effects change. He also has a history of creative tooling work—such as a GIMP plugin that revealed Scheme commands—which hints at a playful, research-minded approach to engineering.
15 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Computer Science, Bachelor's degree Computer Science at Grinnell CollegeGithub contributions (1)
csc325/GCal
Nov 2010 - Dec 2010
Contributions:41 commits in 26 days
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