Lalit Maganti

Lalit Maganti

Technology

I’m a Senior Staff Software Engineer at Google working on Perfetto, an open source suite of tools for performance tracing and analysis. I’ve joined Perfetto as a founding engineer in 2017 and have been part of the project ever since.

https://lalitm.com/

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• Rendering 100k trace events faster with exponential search 2026-02-03 01:07pm
• The surprising attention on sprites, exe.dev, and shellbox 2026-01-28 04:34pm
• Why Senior Engineers Let Bad Projects Fail 2026-01-13 02:48am
• One Number I Trust: Plain-Text Accounting for a Multi-Currency Household 2026-01-01 01:09am
• Homepage Redesign, Light Mode and More 2025-12-06 03:50pm
• Why I Ignore The Spotlight as a Staff Engineer 2025-12-03 04:15pm
• We stopped roadmap work for a week and fixed 189 bugs 2025-11-22 10:20am
• TIL: Number in man page titles (e.g. sleep(3)) 2025-11-17 05:10am
• When Good Technical Writing Isn't Enough 2025-11-12 12:14pm
• CAST(x AS STRING) casts to integer in SQLite 2025-11-03 05:15am
• TIL: Diátaxis: Systematic technical documentation 2025-11-02 03:44pm
• Archive 2025-11-01 05:00pm
• Perfetto: Swiss Army Knife for Linux Client Tracing 2025-10-30 05:00pm
• TIL: Public File Hosting with 0x0.st 2025-10-25 07:13am
• TIL: `will-change` and `isolation` CSS properties 2025-10-23 04:20pm
• TIL: The Documentation System (Divio) 2025-10-19 11:38am
• On Perfetto, Open Source, and Company Priorities 2025-10-17 07:00am
• What Makes a Good Tool for Claude Code 2025-10-11 05:00pm
• Harnessing Frustration: Using LLMs to Overcome Activation Energy 2025-07-13 05:00pm
• V4L2 and Hardware Encoding on the Raspberry Pi 2021-02-01 03:00pm
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