Lalit Kapoor
Software Engineer at withco
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolLalit Kapoor is a seasoned software engineer and leader with 14 years of experience building teams, products, and resilient backend systems across startups and large companies, now at Notion in New York. He has scaled engineering organizations (15→65 at VTS), led NYC engineering for Medium’s creator and payments teams, and served in VP/Director roles driving product and operational outcomes. Hands-on across databases and backend systems, he has contributed to notable open-source projects like node-postgres (bigint array parsing) and request (cookie handling), demonstrating deep attention to data correctness and HTTP behavior. He’s comfortable bridging product, engineering, and finance, having led cross-functional efforts as Head of Product at withco and CTO at Goodybag. A Georgia Tech and Johns Hopkins-trained computer scientist, Lalit combines practical system-building with a talent for cultivating engineering culture and hiring high-performing teams. An often overlooked strength is his history of shipping robust data pipelines and fuzzy-matching/classification work from early-career defense and analytics projects.
14 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science Computer Science, Bachelor of Science Computer Science at Georgia Institute of TechnologyJohns Hopkins University
Stackoverflow
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16kreached
10answers
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Github Skills (23)
javascript10
postgresql10
testing10
http10
nodejs10
cookie10
typed-array9
multidimensional-arrays9
arrayobject9
dynamic-array9
databases9
parallel-arrays9
database9
node-postgres8
libpq8
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
request/request
Dec 2013 - Oct 2014
🏊🏾 Simplified HTTP request client.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:15 commits, 48 comments, 7 issues in 10 months
Contributions summary:Lalit primarily focused on enhancing the functionality of the `request/request` library, particularly related to cookie handling. Their contributions included refactoring cookie parsing, adding and debugging tests for cookie functionality and extending the cookie jar capabilities. The user also implemented changes to accommodate options in arguments. They made code changes related to HTTP request handling and configuration.
apihttp-requesthttp-clientjavascriptsimplified
brianc/node-postgres
Jan 2014 - Feb 2014
PostgreSQL client for node.js.
Role in this project:Backend Developer / Database Engineer
Backend Developer / Database EngineerContributions:9 commits, 5 comments in 1 month
Contributions summary:Lalit contributed to the `node-postgres` project by adding support for big integer arrays and testing various array data types. They focused on type parsing, specifically modifying `lib/types/textParsers.js` to correctly parse array values and implementing tests to ensure the accurate handling of different data types, including integers and floating-point numbers within arrays. Additionally, they added comments to help with the OID.
libpqnode-postgresnode-jspostgresql-drivernodejs
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