LMLalit Maganti

1. Article · Sep 12, 2026 · Lalit Maganti

   I made a build visualizer to understand Bun’s compile times (opens the original)

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   I built buildprof (Github), an open-source tracing tool that shows where the time goes when you compile software on Linux. Here’s a realtime video of it profiling a clean build of ripgrep: Sometimes, builds are slow because there is simply a lot of code to compile. But more often than not, there are fixable problems: poor parallelism, repeated work, dependency downloads or a huge compiler/linker invocation. buildprof makes all of this clearly visible, so you can see what’s worth investigating an

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2. Article · Jul 25, 2026 · Lalit Maganti

   How I Find Problems to Solve as a Staff Engineer (opens the original)

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   Note: this post was revised after publishing for increased clarity, based on reader feedback. “How do you find problems worth working on?” a senior engineer I mentor asked me recently. He’s trying to make the jump to staff engineer and realized that the role isn’t just about doing the work he’s assigned. He also needs to get involved in figuring out what his team and org should be building. Someone else had suggested blocking out time in his calendar to think about the bigger picture. He’d tried

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