Aziz Shamim
Senior Director at GitHub
Nashville-Davidson, Tennessee, United States
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Top SchoolAziz Shamim is a senior technology leader with 13+ years building highly available, distributed systems and leading solutions engineering at GitHub, now serving as Senior Director. He combines hands-on expertise in Linux architecture, DevOps automation (Puppet, Chef), and TDD/BDD practices with strategic experience in enterprise architecture and disaster recovery. Aziz has consistently moved between engineering and leadership—writing backend code and tests for notable open-source projects like Octokit while scaling regional solutions teams across the Americas. Known for pragmatic automation and resilient system design, he also brings an unusual blend of product, operations, and platform coding experience that helps bridge developer needs with enterprise requirements. Based in Nashville, he pairs a practical engineering mindset with a history of improving developer workflows and production reliability.
13 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
BSc (incomplete), Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, BSc (incomplete), Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at Penn State UniversityBSIT, Information Systems, Business Systems Analysis, Information Technology, BSIT, Information Systems, Business Systems Analysis, Information Technology at University of PhoenixKarachi Grammar School
Urdu, English
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Github Skills (19)
octokit10
apidoc10
webhooks10
testing10
ruby10
api10
sdk10
github-api10
algorithm9
algorithms9
hook7
wpgraphql7
wordpress-graphql7
graphql7
sample-data5
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
github/platform-samples
Aug 2016 - Jan 2021
A public place for all platform sample projects.
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:1 review, 59 commits, 29 PRs in 4 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Aziz primarily contributed to backend development tasks within the repository. Their work included sending errors to STDERR and allowing redirection in a Ruby script. They also added and updated files related to a delete repository event webhook, which involved integrating with external services and handling event data. Furthermore, the user refactored existing code to incorporate features like an option parser, debug method, and scope checking.
placesample-projectsjavascriptplatform-samplesruby
octokit/octokit.rb
Nov 2017 - Feb 2018
Ruby toolkit for the GitHub API
Role in this project:Back-end Developer & Test Automation Engineer
Back-end Developer & Test Automation EngineerContributions:7 commits, 1 PR, 7 comments in 3 months
Contributions summary:Aziz primarily contributed to the development and testing of the Octokit Ruby library, specifically focusing on adding commit search functionality. They introduced new preview types, implemented the necessary code changes for searching commits via the GitHub API, and wrote corresponding tests to ensure the functionality worked as expected. The user also addressed preview warnings and merged branches, indicating responsibility for integrating new features and maintaining the codebase.
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