Shariq Hirani
About
I build software for a living, and a few too many things on the side.
Senior Solutions Engineer at GitHub, founder, and habitual builder. I write here about the work and the in-between — shipping products, the teams that build them, and the AI shift happening in real time. Mostly I'm just curious, and bad at leaving things alone. Find the output on projects.
How engineering teams actually run — versus how they're written about.
Shipping fast vs. shipping right is really a fight about risk tolerance, not technique.
AI tooling only counts when it holds up under real, sustained use — not demos.
The leap from senior engineer to lead is asymmetric — and the move back is under-discussed.
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Behind the decks. -
Off-grid — Nusa Penida. -
Overcommitting to a key lime pie. -
Serious about a good burger. -
On stage, now and then.
Currently building
lognote — a local-first Mac app that records your meetings, transcribes them on-device with MLX-Whisper, and drops a clean Markdown summary into your notes. Private by default.
Tools I reach for
Got a hard engineering problem,
or a team that needs to ship faster?
I'm a Senior Solutions Engineer at GitHub with 10+ years across distributed systems, platform architecture, and technical leadership. I work with teams on the AI shift — building agentic tooling that actually holds up in production, not just in demos. If you're looking for a technical collaborator, advisor, or just want to talk through a hard problem, I'm open to the conversation.