Dipin Hora
Principal Software Engineer, Unified Data Platform
United States
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Top SchoolDipin Hora is a Principal Software Engineer with over two decades of experience building high-performance, cost-effective distributed systems and data platforms. At Movable Ink he defined and delivered a unified semantic customer data platform that tripled onboarding speed and became a core part of the company’s multi-year strategy, while driving multi-million dollar savings through infrastructure and messaging optimizations. He combines strong hands-on systems work—writing fault-tolerant ingestion pipelines, pluggable storage backends, and a GraphQL metadata layer—with team leadership that grows high-performing engineering groups. An active open-source contributor, Dipin has made substantive compiler and runtime improvements to the Pony language and contributed orchestration and Terraform/Ansible tooling for Wallaroo Labs’ stream processing stack. He is pragmatic about tooling and has applied AI-assisted coding (Claude/GitHub Copilot) in production projects, reflecting a modern, efficiency-driven engineering approach. Based in the U.S., he blends low-level performance tuning expertise with product-focused architectural vision.
10 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts Computer Science with Honors Philosophy/Studio Art minor, Bachelor of Arts Computer Science with Honors Philosophy/Studio Art minor at New York UniversityHigh School Diploma General Education, High School Diploma General Education at Bronx High School of Science
English, Hindi
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Github Skills (33)
docker10
crossbuild10
compiler-development10
llvm10
terraform10
dockers10
terraformer10
code-generation10
aac10
ansible10
infrastructure-as-code10
ansible-galaxy10
cross-compiling10
devops10
mysql9
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
WallarooLabs/wally
Feb 2016 - Nov 2018
Distributed Stream Processing
Role in this project:
Full-stack & DevOps Engineer
Full-stack & DevOps EngineerContributions:396 commits, 136 PRs, 194 pushes in 2 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Dipin contributed to the project by implementing Terraform modules for creating and managing a VPC and a cluster of nodes. They added Ansible scripts and playbooks to configure the Vagrant VMs. Furthermore, the user updated the project to support Docker Swarm and Kubernetes deployments.
stream-processingstreaming-datadata-streamdata-processingstreams
ponylang/ponyc
Feb 2016 - Aug 2022
Pony is an open-source, actor-model, capabilities-secure, high performance programming language
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:4 releases, 77 reviews, 198 commits in 6 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Dipin made contributions focused on enhancing the Pony language compiler. They worked on cross-compiling functionality, modifying the Makefile for 32-bit target builds on 64-bit platforms and updating code generation components to dynamically check target machine features based on LLVM Triple. They also improved code generation related to number conversions, made changes to the `ifdef` package and added tests. These changes demonstrate a focus on compiler infrastructure and optimization.
securehorseponyponycpony-source
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