Hitesh Aringa is a Senior Engineering Manager based in Mountain View with seven years of experience building and leading backend and DevOps-focused teams at Harness. He founded and shipped the Continuous Efficiency product from scratch as a Staff Software Engineer, turning it GA and delivering measurable cost savings for customers. At Harness he continues to blend hands-on engineering—contributions include webhook API enhancements, image build versioning, and Go profiling—with people leadership across multiple engineering manager roles. Earlier roles at Rivigo and Capillary involved low-latency data architectures and platform engineering, demonstrating strong systems and performance expertise. Known for pragmatic product-building and a tendency to dive into backend and infrastructure code even as a manager, he brings both operational rigor and developer empathy to large-scale platform problems.
6 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Technology (BTech), Information Technology, Bachelor of Technology (BTech), Information Technology at National Institute of Technology Karnataka
Harness Open Source is an end-to-end developer platform with Source Control Management, CI/CD Pipelines, Hosted Developer Environments, and Artifact Registries.
Role in this project:
Backend & DevOps Engineer
Contributions:11 releases, 5 reviews, 14 PRs in 1 year 3 months
Contributions summary:Hitesh primarily contributed to backend and DevOps-related tasks within the Harness platform. They implemented features for branch delete protection and sorting in the webhook API. Furthermore, the user added support for passing version information while building the image and integrating a go profiler. The user also made changes related to reviewer repo access, parent ref changes, and other code enhancements.
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