Engineering leader

Building Reliable, Scalable Platforms. Leading the teams behind them.

I lead engineering teams that solve real business challenges with reliable, secure and scalable platforms — building both the systems and the people behind large-scale internet services.

Currently at
Fastly
Senior Director of Engineering
Previously at
Paddy Power Betfair
SRE Leader
Before that
Cisco
SRE Leader
Earlier at
Betfair
Senior Tech Leader
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What I focus on

People, platforms and long-term impact.

I enjoy solving complex problems at the intersection of infrastructure, security and scale — building effective teams, developing dependable platforms and creating the operational foundations businesses can grow on.

Engineering Teams

Build and mentor high-performing teams, create a culture of ownership and give people the space to do their best work.

Dependable Platforms

Design and deliver systems that are secure, resilient and able to scale with the needs of the business and its customers.

Security and Reliability

Improve security, operational excellence and incident readiness through practical, long-term engineering solutions.

Experience and impact

A track record of scaling teams and systems.

From high-traffic transactional online platforms to global infrastructure providers, I have led teams responsible for the reliability, security and performance of some of the most demanding internet services.

Fastly
Senior Director of Engineering

Edge platforms at global scale

Leading engineering teams behind Fastly's edge platform, focused on reliability, security and performance for customers around the world.

Paddy Power Betfair
SRE Leader

Reliability for high-traffic platforms

Led site reliability engineering for large online betting platforms, where availability and latency directly affect the business.

Cisco
SRE Leader

Operational foundations at scale

Led SRE for large-scale network and infrastructure services, building the operational foundations for resilient systems.

Betfair
Senior Tech Leader

Highly available online services

Senior technical leadership on highly available online services — performance, reliability and operational tooling at scale.

I'm interested in the long term — building systems, teams and infrastructure that make the internet more reliable, secure and useful.

About and connect

A bit more about me.

Hiren Delvadia

I'm Hiren, an engineering leader with a background in infrastructure, networking and security. I enjoy working on complex systems, learning new things and helping teams solve interesting problems.

Outside of work, I'm interested in technology, travel and anything that helps me see more of the world.

Let's connect

I'm always happy to talk about technology, teams and the challenges of building at scale.

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