Nilakanta Mallick
Founder & CEO at base14.io
Karnataka, India
Summary
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Top SchoolNilakanta Mallick is a seasoned technology founder and CEO with 15 years of experience building high-throughput, reliable systems and leading engineering teams to scale. As Co-founder and CTO of Scripbox he architected data and backend platforms handling substantial AUM growth, moving systems from traditional RDBMS to data warehouses and decentralized pipelines using Elixir/Phoenix, Rails, Kafka, Postgres, Airflow, DBT and Kubernetes. He combines product-first leadership with hands-on engineering, from ML/NLP-driven document analysis at Ez-XBRL to contributing auditing enhancements in the Ruby on Rails open-source ecosystem. A repeat founder who now leads Base14 to tackle reliability challenges, he blends enterprise-grade architecture practice with startup agility and a track record of growing teams above 100 engineers. Based in Karnataka, India, he pairs mechanical engineering roots with advanced IT training from IIIT/IIITH and a pragmatic focus on observability, DevOps and auditable systems.
15 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering Mechanical Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering Mechanical Engineering at Sambalpur UniversityPGDIT, PGDIT at International Institute of Information Technology Hyderabad (IIITH)PGDIT, PGDIT at Indian Institute Of Information Technology Allahabad B.E. Mechanical, B.E. Mechanical at UCE, Burla
Github Skills (14)
ruby10
minitest10
activerecord10
rspec10
ruby-rails10
audit10
rails10
auditing10
audit-logging10
unit-test10
testing10
validation9
validations9
callback9
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
collectiveidea/audited
Nov 2010 - Nov 2011
Audited (formerly acts_as_audited) is an ORM extension that logs all changes to your Rails models.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:10 commits in 1 year
Contributions summary:Nilakanta's commits primarily focused on enhancing the auditing capabilities of the Rails application. They implemented features related to comment validation, ensuring that audit comments are required under specific conditions, and integrated an after_audit callback for post-audit actions. Furthermore, the user addressed issues and added features related to the auditing of associated objects, enhancing the functionality and robustness of the auditing system. Their work demonstrates a deep understanding of the auditing extension and its integration within the Rails framework.
ruby-on-railsacts-asauditrailsorm-extension
nilakanta/nilakanta.github.com
Nov 2011 - Apr 2012
Contributions:8 commits in 5 months
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