Aliya Pazylbekova
Software Engineer at Google
Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolAliya Pazylbekova is a software engineer based in Waterloo, Ontario with nine years of experience building back-end systems at Google after multiple internships at industry leaders including Dropbox and LinkedIn. She focuses on graphics tooling and low-level API work, contributing notable enhancements to high-profile open-source projects like RenderDoc and GAPID to improve Vulkan and platform-specific capture/replay capabilities. Her work blends systems-level debugging improvements with pragmatic CLI and server-side features, such as SaveCapture actions and resource-replacement verbs that streamline developer workflows. With dual academic backgrounds in Computer Science (University of Waterloo) and Business Administration (Wilfrid Laurier), she brings both technical depth and product-minded thinking to complex engineering problems. An early penchant for teaching and QA hints at strong communication and attention-to-detail skills that complement her backend engineering strengths.
9 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Business Administration (B.B.A.), Bachelor of Business Administration (B.B.A.) at Wilfrid Laurier UniversityBachelor of Computer Science, Bachelor of Computer Science at University of Waterloo
Github Skills (21)
debugging10
vulkan10
debug10
c-language10
graphic10
go10
golang10
cprogramming-language10
apidoc9
opengl9
direct3d9
api9
directx9
grpc8
graphics-programming8
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
google/gapid
May 2018 - Sep 2020
Graphics API Debugger
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:1 review, 9 commits, 8 PRs in 2 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Aliya primarily contributed to the back-end functionality of the graphics API debugger. They implemented a `SaveCapture` action for the gapis server, enhancing its capabilities. Further contributions involved adding a `replace_resource` verb to gapit, improving resource handling. The user also added a fix related to `VkMemoryAllocateFlagsInfo` and included code changes that followed established GRPC dependency patterns.
apiopenglesreplaywindowslinux
baldurk/renderdoc
Feb 2019 - Apr 2021
RenderDoc is a stand-alone graphics debugging tool.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:3 reviews, 53 commits, 50 PRs in 2 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Aliya made several contributions focused on enhancing the RenderDoc graphics debugging tool's Vulkan support. They fixed an enum for a shader subgroup extension, added support for GGP (Google Game Platform) builds, and introduced support for GGP capture and replay. They also added specific functionality for the GGP operating system. The user appears to have been involved in integrating GGP support throughout the project, including command-line interface updates.
debugging-toolstand-alonestandvulkanvulkan-api
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