Prateek Malhotra
Staff Software Engineer at Stripe
Bridgewater Township, New Jersey, United States
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Top SchoolPrateek Malhotra is a Staff Software Engineer with 13 years of experience building cloud-native, scalable systems and payment infrastructure at Stripe. He combines deep backend expertise in Go and distributed architectures with hands-on product and infrastructure leadership developed as CTO and VP of IT at Backend Benchmarking/Condor. A lifelong tinkerer who built his first web server at age eight, he brings practical curiosity to complex problems—refactoring large open-source projects like Ory Hydra to improve plugin loading, bootstrap, and OAuth2 testability. He has a dual BS in Electrical & Computer Engineering and Computer Science from Rutgers and a track record of migrating legacy systems to resilient cloud architectures and automation that cut costs and recovery time. Comfortable both writing core backend code and guiding cross-functional technical strategy, he frequently contributes to open-source security and identity tooling relied upon at web scale. Based in New Jersey, he balances production-grade engineering with mentoring, community help on StackOverflow, and continual language and systems exploration.
13 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Electrical & Computer Engineering, BS, Electrical & Computer Engineering at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey-New Brunswick
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (22)
authorizations10
back-end-development10
openid-connect10
google-app-engine10
go10
authorization10
backend10
oauth10
python9
server9
testing8
security7
dkim6
mailgun6
timeout6
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
ory/hydra
Aug 2018 - Dec 2018
The only web-scale, fully customizable OpenID Certified™ OpenID Connect and OAuth2 Provider in the world. Become an OpenID Connect and OAuth2 Provider over night. Written in Go, cloud native, headless, API-first. Available as a service on Ory Network and for self-hosters. Relied upon by OpenAI and others for web-scale security.
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:8 commits, 8 PRs, 51 comments in 4 months
Contributions summary:Prateek primarily contributed to refactoring backend connectivity and bootstrap processes, introducing a new backend interface and improving the plugin loading system. They also worked on refactoring the OAuth2 JWT strategy as an interface. Furthermore, the user exported handler bootstrap functions and test helpers related to consent and OAuth2, demonstrating a focus on improving the project's internal structure and testability.
hardware-securityany-languagefederationoauth2-serveriam
someone1/zfsbackup-go
Jul 2017 - Sep 2022
Backup ZFS snapshots to cloud storage such as Google, Amazon, Azure, etc. Built with the enterprise in mind.
Contributions:4 releases, 4 reviews, 103 commits in 5 years 3 months
golangamazonzfscloud-storagesnapshots
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