Nihal Mirpuri
Lead Software Engineer at The Walt Disney Company
London, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolNihal Mirpuri is a Senior Software Engineer based in London with 11 years of experience and a 5+ year focus as a Scala specialist, currently building scalable systems at The Walt Disney Company. He has shipped production-grade distributed systems and search capabilities at Quantexa, including a Kafka-integrated tracing library and contextual search for unstructured data to tackle financial crime. Past roles span warehouse automation and transport/logging systems for large e-commerce operations, where he bridged hardware and software using Scala, Spark, Akka, Kubernetes and more. An active open-source contributor, he strengthened back-end async workflows in early Google Hangouts projects, fixing race conditions and improving image upload and API integrations. Known for translating complex domain problems into pragmatic architectures, he also brings an unusual mix of graphics/shader experience and civic-tech collaboration from earlier roles.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
High School International Baccalaureate, High School International Baccalaureate at Jakarta Intercultural SchoolFoundation Studies Physics, Maths 1, Maths 2, History of Ideas, Literature, Drama, Foundation Studies Physics, Maths 1, Maths 2, History of Ideas, Literature, Drama at Trinity College, the University of MelbourneMiddle School, Middle School at International School of Kuala LumpurThe University of Melbourne
Indonesian, English
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Github Skills (10)
google-hangouts10
api10
chatterbot10
python10
apidoc10
chatbot10
asyncio10
network-programming9
concurrency9
git5
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
hangoutsbot/hangoutsbot
Dec 2014 - May 2017
Google Hangouts bot
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:20 releases, 603 commits, 187 PRs in 2 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Nihal appears to be primarily responsible for the development and maintenance of the backend logic of the Google Hangouts bot, as indicated by the code changes in the `hangupsbot/hangupsbot.py` file. The commits reveal core functionality development. The addition of the API plugin also indicates involvement in creating and maintaining APIs for the bot.
google-hangoutspythonbothangoutschatbot
tdryer/hangups
Jan 2015 - Apr 2015
the first third-party instant messaging client for Google Hangouts
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:8 commits, 2 PRs, 9 comments in 2 months
Contributions summary:Nihal primarily contributed to the back-end functionality of the Google Hangouts client. Their work involved addressing race conditions within the channel subscription process, optimizing message sending, and integrating features. They also made modifications to the client's API request methods and image uploading capabilities, utilizing asyncio for asynchronous operations.
google-hangoutspythonasynciopython-3chat
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