Founder · Operator · Consultant

Heran Patel

aka HP Maharaja

Pursuing balance in chaos.

I build software, hold real estate, and put Gujarati Raas Garba on stages across America. Four ventures, one national garba tour, and thirteen years of writing about what it costs.

See what I’ve built The ventures Who I am

Live · Phoenix--:--:--

Next tour stopOct 16 & 17 · Austin, TX

Events ahead01 / 11

Pursuing balance in chaos
#HustleMindset
Raas Garba at national scale
Built in the open
Gujarati American
Discipline over motivation
Faith · Family · Ambition
Tempe → New York → Phoenix

Heran Patel, also known as HP Maharaja, founder and creator based in Phoenix, Arizona

Ventures: Four
Based: Phoenix, Arizona
Sectors: Fintech · Proptech
Building since: 2013

Pick a door

So — which one are you?

Three kinds of people end up here. Find the sentence you’d actually say and I’ll take you straight there.

“I'm hiring.”

Here's the professional record.

Product and engineering leadership across four ventures, fintech and proptech. Strengths, what I'm open to, and how to send a role.

See the record

“I saw you on stage.”

That was Rameelo.

A non-profit putting Gujarati Raas Garba on a real stage across America. Here's what it is, who plays, and where we're headed next.

Meet Rameelo

“No idea who you are.”

Totally fair.

The two-minute version: what I build, what I write about, and why there's a garba tour in the middle of a founder's website.

Start from zero

4
Ventures built: 12
Nights on the 2026 tour: 6
Cities on the run: 2013
Writing since

Every one of those is something that shipped. The full record, with nothing padded out, is one click away.

See the achievements

Right now

What I’m actually doing this month.

Not a highlight reel from five years ago. These three are live.

On the road

Bollywood Dandiya by DJ G2 — Austin, TX

Oct 16 & 17. 1 of 12 nights still ahead on the Rameelo Garba Tour.

See the dates

At the desk

Building at FinityOne

Shipping software where fintech, event-tech and proptech overlap — money movement on one side, seats and doors on the other.

See the studio

Open right now

Taking select consulting engagements

Product management and engineering teams at scale, for fintech and proptech ventures that were fast at ten people and aren't at forty.

Scope an engagement

What I run

Four things, four very different problems.

Culture, software, real estate, and the advisory work that ties them together. Each one has a page of its own.

Culture · Non-profit

Rameelo

Non-profit reimagining Gujarati Raas Garba as large-scale cultural experiences across America.

Software · Product studio

FinityOne

Tech studio building digital products at the edges of fintech, event-tech and proptech.

Real estate

Maharaja Estates

Arizona-based portfolio of rentals and long-term holds powered by hands-on renovations.

Advisory · Product & Engineering

Tech Venture Consulting

Consultant to tech ventures on product management and engineering teams at scale, in fintech and proptech.

In my own words

“Nobody hands you the playbook for holding two worlds at once. So you write it down as you go.”

I’ve been publishing since 2013 — on ambition, faith, identity, and what chasing all of it actually costs. Written for the kids of immigrants who refuse to lose themselves on the way up.

Read the journal

Latest · Religion · 7 min read

Sanatan Dharma Cheatsheet

A personal welcome to the HP Maharaja universe and what this journal is going to be about.

Old vs. Modern Worlds: The Disconnects Between Them

Culture · 12 min read

Rameelo Retreat Recapped · Jan 2025

Leadership · 8 min read

Say hello

Still reading? Then just email me.

It comes to me, not to an assistant. Tell me what you’re working on and what you need — you’ll get a straight answer, including when the answer is no.

heran@finityone.com

All the ways to reach me Or call