Visaal Ambalam
Software Engineer at Stripe
Chicago, Illinois, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolVisaal Ambalam is a software engineer with 10 years of experience building scalable data and detection systems, currently contributing to Stripe after leading detection platform efforts at Nightfall AI. He has driven end-to-end projects that migrated critical pipelines to open-source tooling, improved reliability and cost efficiency, and delivered secret-detection features that uncovered thousands of live API keys across major services. Comfortable across backend systems, ML inference, DevOps and data infrastructure, he has optimized model serving with BentoML and automated complex Kubernetes deployments and Terraform environments. Visaal pairs hands-on engineering with cross-functional leadership—regularly coordinating with product and customer success, conducting interviews, and championing testing and on-call practices. Based in Chicago, he also writes about technical topics (notably a popular Go regex post) and speaks at conferences, blending deep technical execution with clear communication.
9 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science Computer Science Mathematics, Bachelor of Science Computer Science Mathematics at Washington University in St. LouisHigh School, High School at CSAS
English, Tamil, Saurashtra, French, Hindi
Github Skills (125)
chat10
react-native9
loss9
logic8
matrix8
custom-fields8
openstreetmap8
junit8
react8
wordpress-plugin8
java8
secrets-detection7
data-privacy7
business-logic7
cython7
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
visaals/blog
May 2020 - May 2022
Contributions:12 PRs, 37 pushes, 5 branches in 2 years
thomasn1003/Portfolio
Feb 2017 - Sep 2017
Some of the stuff I've been working on recently
Contributions:28 commits in 6 months
recentlyworking-on
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