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lalitmaganti

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Senior Staff Software Engineer at Google working on Perfetto (docs.perfetto.dev). Passionate about open source, performance, and the intersection of the two. Writing about all of these at lalitm.com.

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I made a build visualizer to understand Bun's compile times

lalitm.com·173 pts·lalitmaganti·

Review a pull request by booting it

fzakaria.com·4 pts·lalitmaganti·

Reverse-engineering Find My People to stalk a friend, cause I can

zerotistic.blog·2 pts·lalitmaganti·

Opus 5 doesn't use em-dashes in code comments

lalitm.com·1 pts·lalitmaganti·

Responsibility Is Taken Before It Is Given

lalitm.com·5 pts·lalitmaganti·

Changing Devtools Is Cheap. Owning Them Isn't

lalitm.com·2 pts·lalitmaganti·

How I Find Problems to Solve as a Staff Engineer

lalitm.com·2 pts·lalitmaganti·

Giving and taking credit in big tech companies

seangoedecke.com·6 pts·lalitmaganti·

GitHub has alternatives, but no replacement

lalitm.com·87 pts·lalitmaganti·

Static search trees: 40x faster than binary search (2024)

curiouscoding.nl·199 pts·lalitmaganti·

When Impressive Performance Gains Do Not Matter

blog.colinbreck.com·5 pts·lalitmaganti·

17 bugs in 10 weeks from AI security scanning

lalitm.com·2 pts·lalitmaganti·

Don't answer the first question

lalitm.com·96 pts·lalitmaganti·

How I use LLMs as a staff engineer in 2026

seangoedecke.com·6 pts·lalitmaganti·

Engineers do get promoted for writing simple code

seangoedecke.com·21 pts·lalitmaganti·

Finding all regex matches has always been O(n²)

iev.ee·260 pts·lalitmaganti·

Syntaqlite: High-fidelity devtools that SQLite deserves

lalitm.com·2 pts·lalitmaganti·

Why AI Coding Advice Contradicts Itself

anup.io·3 pts·lalitmaganti·

How I estimate work as a staff software engineer

seangoedecke.com·10 pts·lalitmaganti·

Crypto grifters are recruiting open-source AI developers

seangoedecke.com·102 pts·lalitmaganti·

Why Senior Engineers Let Bad Projects Fail

lalitm.com·3 pts·lalitmaganti·

Why Senior Engineers Let Bad Projects Fail

lalitm.com·2 pts·lalitmaganti·

Diagnosing performance with dotnet-trace and Perfetto

dfamonteiro.com·1 pts·lalitmaganti·

Understanding SQL Parsers

nishchith.com·2 pts·lalitmaganti·

Who Owns the Memory? Part 3: How Big Is Your Type?

lukefleed.xyz·1 pts·lalitmaganti·

2025 was an excellent year for this blog

seangoedecke.com·2 pts·lalitmaganti·

Who Owns the Memory? Part 1: What Is an Object?

lukefleed.xyz·2 pts·lalitmaganti·

The Dictator's Handbook and the politics of technical competence

seangoedecke.com·6 pts·lalitmaganti·

State of the Server 2026

theorangeone.net·5 pts·lalitmaganti·

They have to be able to talk about us without us

anildash.com·2 pts·lalitmaganti·

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