Chirantan Mahipal
Staff Software Engineer at Robinhood
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolChirantan Mahipal is a Staff Software Engineer based in New York with nine years of experience building reliable backend systems, currently driving platform work at Robinhood after progressing through multiple senior engineering roles there. He has a strong research-to-production background from Microsoft Research and the University of Illinois, where he architected AI-assisted captioning and large-scale classroom SaaS that served hundreds of thousands of users. His expertise spans Node.js, Python, Java/C#, SQL, and distributed systems patterns—demonstrated by projects that improved caption generation latency by 75% and hardened P2P data transfers for low-bandwidth Android devices. Comfortable bridging research and product, he combines algorithmic thinking with pragmatic engineering to ship scalable solutions in fintech and education tech.
9 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering (BE) Information Technology, Bachelor of Engineering (BE) Information Technology at B. M. S. College of EngineeringIndian School Certificate Examination (ISC), Indian School Certificate Examination (ISC) at Bishop Cotton Boys' SchoolMaster of Science - MS Computer Science, Master of Science - MS Computer Science at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
English, Hindi
Github Skills (51)
react-redux10
searchable10
speech10
backend10
csharp10
dotnet9
redux9
asp-net-core9
speech-to-text9
dotnet-core9
frontend8
react8
mpc8
nodejs8
crowdsourcing8
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
classtranscribe/WebAPI
Jun 2019 - Jul 2020
Repository for the .NET Core backend for ClassTranscribe
Contributions:391 commits, 30 PRs, 349 pushes in 1 year 1 month
dotnetbackend-corebackendcsharpnet-core
classtranscribe/Deployment
Aug 2019 - Jul 2020
Contributions:64 commits, 7 PRs, 55 pushes in 11 months
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