Purajit Malalur
Software Engineer at Zipline
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolPurajit Malalur is an infrastructure-focused software engineer with 11 years of experience building reliable distributed systems, networking, and developer-facing tooling from local dev to production. He has led major platform projects—rewriting build/test pipelines to dramatically cut CI costs and build times, introducing k8s and gRPC services, and implementing Terraform-driven, low-click ops deployments—while maintaining strong documentation and teachability. A prolific mentor and educator, he routinely designs courses, docs, and onboarding to raise org-wide engineering health. He contributes to open source build tooling (notably Pants) with a mix of backend and DevOps expertise, and brings deep interests in biology, chemistry, and sustainability that guide the kinds of problems he chooses to work on.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS Mathematics, Bachelor of Science - BS Mathematics at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Github Skills (9)
terraformer10
build-tools10
build-system10
python10
terraform10
devops9
dockers7
docker7
build27
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
pantsbuild/pants
Feb 2024 - Nov 2024
The Pants Build System
Role in this project:
Backend Developer & DevOps Engineer
Backend Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:28 reviews, 8 PRs, 45 comments in 9 months
Contributions summary:Purajit primarily contributed to the backend functionality of the Pants Build System, focusing on dependency inference and module mapping within the Python ecosystem. They enhanced the module mapping logic, adding support for popular Python packages and improving code consistency. Additionally, the user worked on integrating and configuring external tools like `tfsec` and Terraform, addressing versioning and output handling. These contributions indicate a combined focus on build system internals and infrastructure management.
pythonprotobufaws-lambdapantsshell
purajit/configs
Jun 2022 - Feb 2025
Contributions:187 PRs, 120 pushes, 185 branches in 2 years 9 months
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