Summary
Hirthanan Subenderan is a software engineer with a decade of experience building large-scale distributed systems and big data pipelines, currently at Google in Mountain View and New York. A University of Waterloo computer science graduate, he has spent most of his career at Google across multiple locations, contributing to production services and Chromium as an individual contributor. He combines backend systems expertise with a practical appreciation for end-to-end product delivery, shaped by early full-stack roles and stints at startups like Wish and The Weather Network. Known for designing scalable architectures, he focuses on reliability and data flow at scale rather than flashy consumer-facing features. Comfortable operating in both Silicon Valley and New York engineering cultures, he brings a disciplined, systems-first mindset to complex performance and data challenges. Colleagues describe him as steady under pressure and curious about how infrastructure decisions impact long-term operability.
10 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Ontario Secondary School Diploma, Ontario Secondary School Diploma at Lester B. Pearson C.I
Bachelor of Computer Science (BCS) Honours Computer Science with Business Option, Bachelor of Computer Science (BCS) Honours Computer Science with Business Option at University of Waterloo
English, Tamil, French