Malavan Sotheeswaran
Software Engineer at Stripe
Old Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolMalavan Sotheeswaran is a software engineer with four years of experience building robust back-end systems, currently contributing at Stripe after previous engineering roles at Snap and KeyDB. He has hands-on expertise in concurrency and multi-threaded systems—evidenced by contributions to the high-profile KeyDB Redis fork where he improved thread-safety, locking, and forking behavior to prevent race conditions. Comfortable in production settings from internships and roles at Intel to shipping services at Snap, he focuses on reliable synchronization, networking, and replication primitives. Based in Old Toronto, he combines a University of Toronto computer science background with practical open-source impact and a track record of tackling low-level, hard-to-debug concurrency issues.
4 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science at University of Toronto
Github Skills (11)
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forking10
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c-language10
cprogramming-language10
multithreading10
concurrency10
redis9
networking8
system-programming8
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
Snapchat/KeyDB
Jan 2022 - Jan 2023
A Multithreaded Fork of Redis
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:2 releases, 19 reviews, 209 commits in 1 year
Contributions summary:Malavan primarily focused on modifying and optimizing the `ae` module of the KeyDB project, specifically related to thread safety and forking operations. Their contributions involve adding and modifying lock mechanisms (e.g., `g_forkLock`, `g_lock`), and thread-related functions to improve the handling of concurrent operations. The changes aim to ensure proper synchronization and prevent potential race conditions or data corruption in a multi-threaded, forking environment. Additionally, the commits contain modifications to networking and replication related files and functions.
redis
msotheeswaran-sc/KeyDB
May 2022 - May 2022
A Multithreaded Fork of Redis
Contributions:2 pushes in 1 day
redis
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