Lalit Maganti
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Lalit Maganti

I'm Lalit, a Senior Staff Engineer at Google working on Perfetto. I write about software engineering, performance, and open-source.

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#til (5) #linux (3) #llm (3) #ai (2) #big-tech (2) #perfetto (2) #performance (2) #productivity (2) #software-engineering (2) #annotated-presentation (1) #beancount (1) #career (1) #careers (1) #claude-code (1) #finances (1) #fixit (1) #meta (1) #open-source (1) #plaintextaccounting (1) #raspberry-pi (1) #sqlite (1) #tracing (1) #vms (1) #vps (1) #writing (1)

Essays

Longer pieces on software, career, and ideas.

Why Senior Engineers Let Bad Projects Fail Jan 13, 2026
Why I Ignore The Spotlight as a Staff Engineer Dec 4, 2025
When Good Technical Writing Isn't Enough Nov 12, 2025
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Write-ups

Technical explorations and things I've built or done.

The surprising attention on sprites, exe.dev, and shellbox Jan 29, 2026
One Number I Trust: Plain-Text Accounting for a Multi-Currency Household Jan 1, 2026
We stopped roadmap work for a week and fixed 189 bugs Nov 22, 2025
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Notes

Short observations and things I learned.

Homepage Redesign, Light Mode and More Dec 6, 2025
TIL: Number in man page titles (e.g. sleep(3)) Nov 17, 2025
CAST(x AS STRING) casts to integer in SQLite Nov 3, 2025
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Archive

All posts in chronological order →