Manoj Mahalingam
Principal Engineer at Avalara
Stony Stratford, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolManoj Mahalingam is a Principal Engineer with 15 years of experience building cloud-native, infrastructure-first systems and developer tooling, currently driving platform and reliability work at Avalara. He brings deep hands-on expertise in Kubernetes, Terraform, Docker, Scala and Node.js from prior senior roles at Indix and ThoughtWorks, coupling architecture thinking with day-to-day engineering. An active open-source contributor, Manoj has improved developer UX in widely used projects—adding kubectl completion and language-version integrations to the Bash-it framework and hardening test failure reporting in the Pester PowerShell suite. He blends DevOps pragmatism with backend language fluency, often surfacing small developer experience wins that yield large productivity gains. Based in the UK and trained in computer science in Chennai, he also authors practical CI learning material, signaling a penchant for clear, shareable engineering knowledge.
15 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 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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