Punit Kulal
Software Engineer at Pixxel
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
Summary
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Top SchoolPunit Kulal is a polyglot software engineer with 9 years of experience building high-throughput, low-latency backend systems and event-driven platforms. He has designed and maintained billion-events-per-day ecosystems at Gojek and now applies that expertise at Pixxel, working across Java, Go, Python, and JavaScript. Comfortable with both RDBMS and NoSQL stores, he specializes in event streaming, async and concurrent programming for scalable, production-grade services. His open-source contributions include backend work and documentation fixes for SirixDB, an embeddable bitemporal append-only database, reflecting attention to both core systems and developer experience. Based in Bengaluru, he brings a platform-agnostic mindset and a practical focus on observability and maintainability in distributed systems. Colleagues describe him as a hands-on architect who balances rigorous design with pragmatic shipping.
9 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Information Technology, Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Information Technology at Vivekanand Education Societys Institute of Technology Sindhi Society Chembur Mumbai 400 071
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Github Skills (13)
javas10
versioning10
javadoc10
java10
documentation10
api9
xml9
safari6
json-schema-validator6
file-upload6
json-schema6
spring6
spring-boot6
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
sirixdb/sirix
Apr 2020 - May 2020
SirixDB is an an embeddable, bitemporal, append-only database system and event store, storing immutable lightweight snapshots. It keeps the full history of each resource. Every commit stores a space-efficient snapshot through structural sharing. It is log-structured and never overwrites data. SirixDB uses a novel page-level versioning approach.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Documentation Specialist
Back-end Developer & Documentation SpecialistContributions:12 commits, 2 PRs, 11 comments in 1 month
Contributions summary:Punit primarily contributed to the documentation of the API by correcting and fixing Javadoc warnings and errors. They have modified various Java files, including interfaces and implementations within the `bundles/sirix-core` directory, suggesting involvement in the core back-end logic. The user also made minor changes to files in other directories, replacing heading tags.
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punit-kulal/Library
Jul 2016 - Mar 2017
Contributions:7 commits, 2 PRs, 9 pushes in 7 months
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