Mal Curtis
Principal Software Engineer at NVIDIA
Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand
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Top SchoolMal Curtis is a Principal Software Engineer with 14 years of experience building high-performance, scalable internet systems from New Zealand and currently at NVIDIA. He has a strong track record progressing from hands-on web development and founding a startup to senior engineering and architecture roles at companies like Vend, inMusic, Groq and Kolatr. Mal pairs deep backend expertise—evidenced by notable open-source contributions to a Go Elasticsearch client implementing advanced aggregations—with leadership in delivering webservices and platform-scale systems. He is comfortable across stacks and cloud platforms, mentors teams, and frequently moves between product-focused startups and high-performance engineering organizations. A detail-driven pragmatist, he often combines low-level performance work with pragmatic product delivery to ship fast, reliable systems.
14 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
St Andrews College
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (21)
aggregate10
apidoc10
aggregator10
amazon-elasticsearch10
ag10
elasticsearchquery10
aggregations10
go10
api10
aws-elasticsearch10
elasticsearch10
aggregates10
elasticsearch-api10
error-handling9
woocommerce-rest-api6
Programming languages (19)
Github contributions (5)
mattbaird/elastigo
May 2014 - Jul 2014
A Go (golang) based Elasticsearch client library.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:5 commits, 3 comments, 1 issue in 2 months
Contributions summary:Mal contributed significantly to the `elastigo` project, a Go-based Elasticsearch client. Their work involved implementing new features such as range filters and aggregations, which enhance the library's functionality for querying and analyzing data in Elasticsearch. The user also added support for various aggregation types, including min, max, sum, and histogram, enhancing the library's utility. Furthermore, they addressed error handling by incorporating a 404 response for non-existent records and updated the codebase to use the correct aggregation keys.
golangclient-libraryopensearchelasticsearchelasticsearch-client
apostle/apostle-rails
Jun 2014 - Oct 2018
Rails Bindings for Apostle.io
Contributions:4 commits, 2 PRs, 2 pushes in 4 years 5 months
ruby-on-railsrailsrails-enginerails-bindingsruby
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