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Kiran Chittimaneni
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Head of Enterprise Platform Engineering
California, United States
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Head of Enterprise Platform EngineeringDiscordJul 2026 - Current (3 months)- CIO | Head of Business Platform EngineeringBlockMar 2020 - May 2026 (6 years 3 months)Scope: 200+ engineers | Enterprise platforms powering operations across Square, CashApp, and Afterpay.
I lead the Business Platform Engineering (BizPlat) organization at Block, responsible for the enterprise platforms that power internal operations across Square, Cash App, and Afterpay.
Our mission is to Automate Block by building AI-powered systems that streamline complex workflows across customer support, compliance, finance, sales, and employee productivity.
The organization includes 200+ engineers and technologists building platforms that support customer operations, regulatory processes, and internal business systems at global scale.
Key platform areas include:
Customer Support & O - VP, Building TechnologyWeWorkAug 2018 - Feb 2020 (1 year 7 months)- Built a new line of revenue generating Network and IT services: Business Internet Access, Global Print
Solution, Bring your own VC.
- Scaled our Network and IT infrastructure from ~300 buildings to more than 700 buildings across the world
- Responsible for a Capex/Opex budget of $300+ MM
- Grew the team from 10 people to over 300 full time employees across the following disciplines: Software Engineering, Product Management, Pre-sales Solutions Architecture, Network Engineering, Technical Program Management and 24●7●365 global support operations - Infrastructure at FacebookFacebookApr 2018 - Aug 2018 (5 months)Helped build Network Points of Presence and Data Centers for Facebook's Production infrastructure.
- Interim Head of Security EngineeringDropboxJul 2016 - May 2017 (11 months)- Managed a team of approximately 30, including 4 managers
- Oversaw technical engineering effort across 4 domains: Product Security, Abuse Prevention, Infrastructure Security, and Incident Detection and Response - Director of Engineering, Corporate EngineeringDropboxApr 2014 - Mar 2018 (4 years)Responsible for leading the company’s global corporate infrastructure strategy and the IT organization, focused on delivering world-class technology, business applications and services to Dropbox’s agile and globally distributed workforce.
- Managed a global team comprising of approximately 75 people, including 7 managers, across 7 offices in the US, EMEA and APAC, covering the following functional service areas:
- Network and Systems engineering
- IT Risk and Compliance
- End-user IT support: Helpdesk, Endpoint Management
- Multimedia Collaboration Services: AV/VC, VoIP, Event Production
- Program Management
- Vendor Management
- Enterprise Application Development - Manager, Network EngineeringGoogleFeb 2005 - Apr 2014 (9 years 3 months)Network engineering manager responsible for corporate network deployments across North and South America, and the Asia-Pacific region.
- Managed a team of 14 people, including 1 regional line manager, 3 regional tech leads, 1 project manager and 9 network engineers, covering all corporate network deployments across the Americas and Asia Pacific
- Functioned as a technical and management escalation point for critical internal customer issues and complex engineering projects involving internal product area consulting
- Created and presented budget proposals (capex and opex) to senior leadership team
- Provided technical and executive updates to senior leadership team
- Influenced long term corporate network str - Systems EngineerVerizonOct 2004 - Feb 2005 (5 months)
- CSenior Consultant, Network SpecialistCOMgroup EastJan 2002 - Jan 2004 (2 years 1 month)
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- IRFC 7381 - Enterprise IPv6 Deployment GuidelinesInternet Engineering Task Force IETF OctThis document helps provide a framework for enterprise network architects or administrators who may be faced with many of these challenges as they consider their IPv6 support strategies.
- IRFC 9099 - Operational Security Considerations for IPv6 NetworksInternet Engineering Task Force IETF AugThis document analyzes the operational security issues associated with several types of networks and proposes technical and procedural mitigation techniques. This document is only applicable to managed networks, such as enterprise networks, service provider networks, or managed residential networks.
- UEnterprise IPv6 Deployment: Experience Report from GoogleUSENIX
- UDeploying IPv6 in the Google Enterprise Network. Lessons learned.USENIXThis paper describes how we deployed IPv6 in Google's corporate network in a relatively short time with a small core team that carried most of the work, the challenges we faced during the different implementation phases, and the network design used for IPv6 connectivity.