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) #perfetto (3) #ai (2) #big-tech (2) #performance (2) #productivity (2) #software-engineering (2) #algorithms (1) #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.

Rendering 100k trace events faster with exponential search Feb 3, 2026
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
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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 →