Nizar Malangadan
Senior Engineer at PromptQL
Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India
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Top SchoolNizar Malangadan is a Senior Engineer based in Chennai with nine years of experience building robust backend systems and developer-focused platforms. He spent six years at Hasura contributing to the high-profile open-source GraphQL engine, improving object-relationship handling and GeoJSON support while strengthening the test suite—work that improved realtime GraphQL APIs used widely in production. Currently at PromptQL, he focuses on scalable query and API technologies, blending research-grade protocol implementation experience from IIT Madras with practical product development. His background includes hardware and Linux-based protocol implementations on NetFPGA, giving him uncommon depth in both low-level networking and high-level API design. Known for pragmatic problem-solving, he pairs strong systems thinking with a track record of shipping reliable, test-driven features in complex distributed codebases.
9 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Indian Institute of Technology Madras
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (13)
graphql10
graphql-api10
api10
postgresql10
geojson10
wordpress-graphql10
wpgraphql10
testing10
haskell9
pytest-html6
docker6
pytest6
dockerfile6
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
hasura/graphql-engine
Sep 2018 - Aug 2020
Blazing fast, instant realtime GraphQL APIs on all your data with fine grained access control, also trigger webhooks on database events.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:27 commits, 31 PRs, 3 pushes in 1 year 11 months
Contributions summary:Nizar focused on enhancing the GraphQL engine's functionality related to object relationships and GeoJSON support. They addressed a bug in parsing MultiPolygon GeoJSON objects and implemented changes to the schema, including the addition of manual object relationships. Furthermore, the user contributed to the test suite by adding new tests, particularly for GeoJSON and GraphQL mutations, and removed older Haskell-based tests. These changes improve the stability, and feature-completeness of the GraphQL engine.
realtimefine-grained-access-controlgraphql-serversql-serverhaskell
nizar-m/graphql-engine
Sep 2018 - Sep 2020
Blazing fast, instant realtime GraphQL APIs on Postgres with fine grained access control
Contributions:6 PRs, 225 pushes, 55 branches in 2 years
realtimegraphql-apiblazinggraphql-apishasura
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