Hiren Mistry
Senior Software Engineer at Independent Consultant
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolHiren Mistry is a Senior Software Engineer in San Francisco with 12 years of experience building product-focused full-stack applications, specializing in Ruby on Rails and iOS development. With an electrical engineering background and years in analog and high-speed signal integrity design, he uniquely blends hardware-grade rigor with pragmatic software craftsmanship. He’s shipped products across startups and enterprises—from co-founding a venture to driving backend and cloud platform work at companies like Loop and Silvaco—and currently contributes at Checkr while consulting independently. An active open-source contributor, Hiren has improved developer UX and security in high-profile Ruby projects such as Bundler and RubyGems and contributed quality and compatibility fixes to the Shrine toolkit. He mentors engineers and is known for turning complex, cross-disciplinary problems into maintainable, user-centered solutions.
12 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
California Polytechnic State University, San Luis ObispoFoothill CollegeElectrical Engineering (SCPD program - masters level coursework), Electrical Engineering (SCPD program - masters level coursework) at Stanford University
Github Skills (17)
dependency-management10
package-management10
testing10
rspec10
ruby10
security10
bundler10
error-handling10
rubygems9
validations9
validation9
activerecord9
refactoring8
web-framework8
documentation8
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
shrinerb/shrine
Oct 2017 - Jun 2020
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:5 reviews, 53 commits, 56 PRs in 2 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Hiren primarily contributed to improving the Shrine file attachment toolkit for Ruby applications. Their work focused on enhancing the codebase by adding frozen string literals, refactoring and removing unused variables, and fixing bugs. They also updated the Active Record dependency, improved validation error messages, and addressed issues in the determine_mime_type plugin. These changes indicate a focus on improving code quality, maintainability, and compatibility.
file-attachmentfile-uploadattachmentdirect-uploadorigami
rubygems/bundler
Oct 2016 - Mar 2018
Manage your Ruby application's gem dependencies
Role in this project:Back-end Developer & QA Engineer
Back-end Developer & QA EngineerContributions:6 commits, 5 PRs, 109 comments in 1 year 5 months
Contributions summary:Hiren primarily focused on improving the stability and clarity of the Bundler gem by addressing potential error messages and checksum validation issues. They fixed an incorrect error message related to missing gems before installation and implemented changes to improve the user experience. The user also improved the clarity of error messages and addressed security concerns.
dependenciesrubygemsbundlerrubydependency-manager
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