Girija Kalakoti
Software Engineer at Moloco
Bellevue, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolGirija Kalakoti is a software engineer with 8 years of experience specializing in distributed systems, backend development, and automation, currently working at Moloco in Bellevue. With a master's from UIUC and hands-on roles at Amazon and Moloco, Girija has built fault-tolerant clusters, designed microservices for incident response, and automated SSL and compliance workflows to reduce operational toil. Comfortable across GCP, Kubernetes, Terraform, Python, Java, and CI/CD, she blends production-grade reliability with a strong testing and documentation mindset—evident from contributions to the widely used Nuitka Python compiler project. An ACM-ICPC regionalist and open-source mentor, she combines competitive algorithmic roots with practical SRE and backend engineering to solve complex, real-world problems.
8 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Technology - BTech, Computer Science and Engineering, 9.46/10, Bachelor of Technology - BTech, Computer Science and Engineering, 9.46/10 at Amrita Vishwa VidyapeethamMCS, Computer Science, MCS, Computer Science at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
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Github Skills (7)
compiler10
compiler-compiler10
python10
documentation10
testing10
performance-analysis4
performance-monitor4
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
Nuitka/Nuitka
Feb 2019 - Mar 2019
Nuitka is a Python compiler written in Python. It's fully compatible with Python 2.6, 2.7, 3.4-3.13. You feed it your Python app, it does a lot of clever things, and spits out an executable or extension module.
Role in this project:
Technical Writer & QA Engineer
Technical Writer & QA EngineerContributions:5 commits, 5 PRs, 8 comments in 26 days
Contributions summary:Girija contributed to improving the documentation of the Nuitka compiler by correcting typos, punctuation errors, and inconsistencies in the README.rst and Developer_Manual.txt files. They also demonstrated testing skills by modifying and extending the test suite, adding new tests to cover various subscripting methods and functions related to Python operations. These contributions enhance the project's usability and reliability.
python-2-6packaging-toolpythonpython-applot
girijamanoj/Pr0b13m_S01v1n9
Mar 2018 - Feb 2019
Contributions:68 commits, 40 PRs, 66 pushes in 11 months
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