Awais Malik
Cloud Solutions Architect at Google
Irvine, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAwais Malik is a Cloud Solutions Architect with nine years of experience who currently architects cloud-native platforms at Google after senior management work at Deloitte Digital, blending hands-on engineering with strategic delivery. He specializes in cloud engineering, digital experience and commerce, and has deep expertise in infrastructure-as-code, CI/CD, and automation across Google Cloud. Awais has contributed to notable open-source tooling such as the GoogleCloudPlatform/cloud-foundation-toolkit and terraform-google-modules, improving test frameworks and automating blueprint and deployment tooling. Based in Irvine, California, he pairs a formal background in Computer Systems Engineering and an MS in Software Engineering with practical DevOps and QA experience. Colleagues value him for bridging technical depth and operational rigor—he’s as comfortable modifying kubectl/asm install scripts as he is designing test automation for production databases.
10 years of coding experience
Bachelor's degree, Computer Systems Engineering, Bachelor's degree, Computer Systems Engineering at Ghulam Ishaq Khan Institute of Engineering Sciences and TechnologyMaster of Science (M.S.), Software Engineering, Master of Science (M.S.), Software Engineering at California State University-Fullerton
Github Skills (16)
gcp10
infrastructure-as-code10
terraformer10
bash10
terraform10
cicd10
gcloud10
test-automation10
docker8
kubernetes8
kubernetes-pods8
dockers8
go7
databases6
cft6
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
terraform-google-modules/terraform-google-sql-db
May 2021 - Dec 2022
Creates a Cloud SQL database instance
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer & QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
DevOps Engineer & QA Engineer / Test Automation EngineerContributions:115 reviews, 9 commits, 69 PRs in 1 year 7 months
Contributions summary:Awais primarily focused on improving the testing framework and CI/CD processes within the repository. They deprecated the usage of gcp-inspec, replacing integration tests with gcloud. The user updated tests to use a newer image version and addressed compatibility issues, including fixing links in the README. Furthermore, the user implemented a new test framework and added a verbose flag to CI tests, demonstrating a commitment to improved test quality and automation.
cloud-sqldatabasecft-terraformdatabases
GoogleCloudPlatform/cloud-foundation-toolkit
May 2021 - Dec 2022
The Cloud Foundation toolkit provides GCP best practices as code.
Role in this project:DevOps Engineer & Cloud Engineer
DevOps Engineer & Cloud EngineerContributions:466 reviews, 15 commits, 213 PRs in 1 year 6 months
Contributions summary:Awais primarily contributed to the automation and configuration of infrastructure within the Google Cloud Platform, as evidenced by the changes in `install_asmcli.sh` and `install_kubectl.sh` scripts, suggesting the setup of tools related to Google Cloud services. Further, they worked on enhancements to the cloud foundation toolkit including copying additional resources to the build directory, and adding commands for blueprint metadata. Their work included building and modifying tooling related to blueprint tests and metadata generation, indicating a focus on infrastructure-as-code and CI/CD processes.
gcp
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