Manoj Mahalingam
Principal Engineer at Avalara
Stony Stratford, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolManoj Mahalingam is a Principal Engineer with 14 years’ experience building cloud-native platforms and developer tooling, currently driving architecture and delivery at Avalara after senior roles at Indix and ThoughtWorks. He combines infrastructure expertise (Kubernetes, Terraform, Docker) with application-level work in Scala and Node.js, and is the author of Learning CI. An active open-source contributor, his enhancements to popular projects like bash-it and Pester improved CLI ergonomics (kubectl completion, pyenv/jenv plugins) and made test failure output far more actionable. Based in Stony Stratford, he focuses on pragmatic improvements to developer experience, CI and platform automation that scale across teams.
14 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.), Computer Science Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.), Computer Science Engineering at SSN College Of Engineering, ChennaiDAV, Gopalapuram, Chennai
English, Tamil, Hindi
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Github Skills (94)
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Programming languages (20)
Github contributions (5)
Bash-it/bash-it
Feb 2013 - Sep 2016
A community Bash framework.
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:5 commits, 2 PRs, 2 comments in 3 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Manoj contributed to the `bash-it` framework by adding plugins for integrating with pyenv and jenv, tools that manage Python and Java versions, respectively. The user incorporated the use of `pathmunge` within a plugin. Furthermore, the user added a bash completion script for `kubectl`, enhancing the usability of the command-line interface for Kubernetes. These additions improved the framework's capabilities and developer experience.
bash-promptbash-completionbash-configurationproductivitybash-framework
pester/Pester
May 2011 - Jul 2012
Pester is the ubiquitous test and mock framework for PowerShell.
Role in this project:QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
QA Engineer / Test Automation EngineerContributions:5 commits in 1 year 2 months
Contributions summary:Manoj primarily focused on enhancing the Pester testing framework for PowerShell. Their contributions included improving the output of test failures, providing more detailed information like file names and line numbers. They introduced a `PesterFailure` type to standardize failure reporting and refactored the testing logic to use script block evaluation instead of line-by-line parsing. Additional changes involve streamlining the test execution process and modifying the output XML.
assertionspowershelltestingbddtdd-framework
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