Chirayu Krishnappa
Chief Technology Officer at Miles
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolChirayu Krishnappa is a seasoned technology leader and Chief Technology Officer based in San Francisco with 13 years of engineering and leadership experience across startups and global platforms including Miles, Uber, Google, YouTube, and Microsoft. He has progressed from hands-on front-end contributions to leading engineering organizations, hiring across frontend and mobile (iOS/Android) teams and building scalable release platforms for mobile at Uber. An active open-source contributor to core Angular projects and Protractor, he has deep expertise in framework internals such as lexers/scanners, interpolation, and E2E testing improvements—work that helped harden widely used web tooling. Combining an MS in Computer Science with executive education from Harvard Business School, he blends practical implementation chops with strategic product and team building. Colleagues know him for turning tricky front-end and release engineering problems into reliable, production-ready systems while actively recruiting top mobile and frontend talent.
13 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
MS CS, MS CS at Oregon State UniversityBishop Cotton Boys' SchoolBE CS, BE CS at Manipal Academy of Higher EducationBE CS, BE CS at Manipal Institute of TechnologyHarvard Business School Executive Education
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Github Skills (25)
test-automation10
e2e-testing10
javascript10
protractor10
angulardart10
e2e-test10
string-interpolation10
typescript10
front-end-development10
angularjs10
typescript-types10
html10
web-framework10
typescripts10
angular10
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
dart-archive/angular.dart
Sep 2013 - Mar 2015
Legacy source repository. See github.com/dart-lang/angular
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:299 commits, 12 PRs, 15 pushes in 1 year 6 months
Contributions summary:Chirayu primarily contributed to the development of the AngularDart framework by implementing new features and fixing bugs within the framework. Their work included adding directives for various DOM events, creating a directive for HTML binding, and implementing an `ng-non-bindable` directive. Additionally, the user made improvements to existing directives such as `ng-if` and added new functionality like the `orderBy` and `limitTo` filters, thus enriching the framework's capabilities.
angulardart
angular/angular.js
Mar 2013 - Apr 2015
AngularJS - HTML enhanced for web apps!
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:65 commits, 13 PRs, 116 pushes in 2 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Chirayu primarily contributed to the AngularJS codebase, focusing on improving the framework's features and addressing bugs. They implemented fixes for the `$browser` service, which handles cookie management, ensuring it correctly uses the first value provided for a cookie. The user also worked on sanitization, addressing security vulnerabilities related to `img[src]` and `form[action]` attributes, while also addressing issues with the interpolation of DOM events in the code. Finally, they added functionality for messageFormat like syntax in the framework's $interpolate service.
angularjs
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