Sanil Chawla
Founder & CEO at Hack+
Los Angeles, California, United States
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Top SchoolSanil Chawla is a founder and CEO with 11 years of experience building product-driven tech for creative communities, currently leading Slingshot to simplify business and financial workflows for artists and creators. He previously founded Hack+, a nonprofit that used automation and scalable platforms to help students launch ventures and reached over 60,000 students with support from tech partners like Google and Microsoft. Sanil brings hands-on engineering experience from the Annenberg Inclusion Initiative, where he built research tools to accelerate work on diversity and inclusion in entertainment. His background spans growth and operations roles—scaling student communities to 25K+ and running high-attendance events—combined with early technical entrepreneurship dating back to a childhood startup. Known for pairing product design with operational automation, he focuses on practical solutions that amplify underrepresented voices in creative industries. Based in Los Angeles and educated at USC in Arts Technology and Business of Innovation, he blends creative empathy with systems thinking to deliver tools creators actually use.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS Arts Technology and the Business of Innovation, Bachelor of Science - BS Arts Technology and the Business of Innovation at University of Southern CaliforniaMission San Jose High School
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Github Skills (65)
pgp10
chat10
encryption10
collaboration10
javascript10
next-level10
slack10
webrtc10
react10
data-protection9
browser9
sql9
d19
swift9
deno-deploy9
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
msjhs2018/msjhs2018.github.io
Mar 2015 - Mar 2018
Contributions:62 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years
slingshot/brex
Nov 2021 - Feb 2022
Brex API wrapper for JS
Contributions:6 releases, 44 commits, 5 PRs in 2 months
apijavascriptapi-wrapper
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