Mark Punzalan
Software Engineer at Google
Washington, United States
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Top SchoolMark Punzalan is a seasoned software engineer with 11 years of experience building reliable systems at scale across Google, Salesforce, Amazon, and Microsoft. He combines deep test automation and infrastructure validation expertise with hands-on backend development, having led the design and delivery of end-to-end test frameworks, release pipelines, and critical monitoring apps. At Salesforce he architected a web app that continuously collects infrastructure telemetry, and at Amazon he built rapid, data-driven automation for royalty and accounting platforms that handled high-volume transactions. His open-source contributions include IDE- and compiler-adjacent fixes to the prominent Kotlin project, addressing non-null assertion and FIR IDE test coverage issues. A former university lecturer and Cum Laude computer science graduate, he’s equally comfortable mentoring teams and diving into low-level debugging or frontend integrations. Known for shipping pragmatic, auditable solutions, he often pioneers tooling and review practices that raise engineering rigor across organizations.
10 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science (Cum Laude, 3.67 GPA), Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science (Cum Laude, 3.67 GPA) at Ateneo de Manila University
English, Tagalog
Github Skills (8)
kotlin10
ide10
develop10
test-automation10
error-handling9
debug8
debugging8
build-automation8
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
JetBrains/kotlin
Jan 2019 - Feb 2022
The Kotlin Programming Language.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Automation Engineer
Back-end Developer & Automation EngineerContributions:353 reviews, 270 commits, 96 PRs in 3 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Mark primarily focused on addressing IDE-related issues within the Kotlin programming language project. They made several code modifications related to adding non-null assertion fixes, including modifications in quick fix factories, tests, and test data to address issues KTIJ-10052. Additionally, the user contributed to setting up tests for the FIR IDE, including moving and consolidating tests for the addExclExclCall feature and adding tests for other features, with the purpose of enabling the fixes in the project's FIR implementation. They also worked on fixing errors for the UNSAFE_CALL, UNSAFE_OPERATOR_CALL and similar errors and implemented the ability to remove val/var parameters, moving the implementation to idea-frontend-independent.
maven-plugincompilerkotlinintellij-pluginprogramming-language
punzki/kotlin
Jan 2019 - Feb 2021
The Kotlin Programming Language
Contributions:86 pushes, 66 branches in 2 years 1 month
kotlinprogramming-language
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