Dinesh Chugtai is a software engineer and a main character in HBO's Silicon Valley.
Background[]
Dinesh lives and works in the Hacker Hostel with Richard, Big Head, and Gilfoyle. He possesses a dry wit and skills in writing code, particularly with Java. Dinesh often finds himself sparring with Gilfoyle.[1]
Although originally from Pakistan, Dinesh is a U.S. citizen, unlike Gilfoyle. He claims it took him five years to get US citizenship and was asked about Al-Qaeda "like 14 times".
Relationships[]
Single but "wishful".
Memorable Quotes[]
- " I was already happy you got punched in the face, but now I’m super happy!"
- ―
- "I know Gilfoyle probably came in here and puked out a bunch of tech specs, three-fourths of which are total horse shit. Did he bring up the Iranian revolution thing? Yeah, those words mean nothing. But here's a fact, I'm the only one of these clowns that can code in Java and I write sleek performant low-overhead Scala code with higher order functions that will run on anything. Period. End of sentence."
- ―in the Cap Table
- "That's not really our logo is it? It looks like a guy sucking a dick and he's got another dick tucked behind his ear for later, like a snack dick."
- ―in Articles of Incorporation
- "I half-jokingly said to Gilfoyle last night it looks like Richard’s gonna suck Erlich’s dick. But that would be reasonable compared to this."
- ―in Fiduciary Duties
- "You’re probably right, she just wanted to fuck a Danish."
- ―in Third Party Insourcing
- "I should not have eaten all that Satanist chicken"
- ―in Third Party Insourcing
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