Pulak Malhotra
Software Engineer at Wayground (formerly Quizizz)
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
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Top SchoolPulak Malhotra is a software engineer with six years of experience building scalable backend systems and research-grade ML tooling, currently based in Bengaluru and pursuing a BTech (Hons) in Computer Science at IIIT Hyderabad. He combines strong academic credentials (9.26/10 CGPA) with practical impact: shipped high-throughput features and HA initiatives at Sprinklr, later owning supervisor console work at Wayground. An active open-source contributor and former Google Summer of Code intern, Pulak has made notable low-level contributions to the rizin reverse-engineering framework, improving heap visualization and manipulation APIs. He also accelerated internationalization workflows by 40x via a JavaScript package and has led research projects at Precog from ideation to conference publications. Early entrepreneurship and product sense are evident from an Android notes app he built at 15 that surpassed 2,000 downloads. Pulak’s profile blends systems-level debugging expertise, production engineering at scale, and a research-driven approach to solving complex problems.
6 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Technology - BTech, Computer Science, Bachelor of Technology - BTech, Computer Science at International Institute of Information Technology
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Github Skills (10)
c1710
memory-management10
reverse-engineering10
c1110
glibc10
program-analysis9
debugging7
exp7
exploit7
debug7
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
rizinorg/rizin
Mar 2021 - Aug 2021
UNIX-like reverse engineering framework and command-line toolset.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Reverse Engineering Specialist
Back-end Developer & Reverse Engineering SpecialistContributions:36 reviews, 18 commits, 24 PRs in 5 months
Contributions summary:Pulak focused on enhancing the `dmh` family of commands within the Rizin reverse engineering framework. Their work involved refactoring code, fixing bugs, and adding new features to improve the display of heap information, including the integration of Tcache data. These changes demonstrate expertise in memory management and debugging techniques. The user also implemented several API calls for heap manipulation, further contributing to the reverse engineering capabilities of the tool.
unixsecuritycode-injectionunix-likebinaries
MalhotraPulak/Blaze-Search
Aug 2021 - Oct 2021
Contributions:41 commits in 1 month
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